Planting the seeds

Sustainability is a defining issue of our time, representing unprecedented opportunity for design thinking and innovation. Presented by AIGA SF, the Compostmodern conference is where designers, manufacturers and business leaders come together to find inspiration, share knowledge and explore real world opportunities for transforming products, industries and lives. We chaired, organized and branded the conference from 2007-2009,

developing not just an engaging and memorable communication campaign, but a platform for the future. The Compostmodern communication campaign enabled individuals and groups anywhere to organize and host satellite events with easily downloadable promotional components like banners, posters, sponsorship packets, HTML emails – even interstitials.

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A provocative and abstract series of designs evoke the 2009 conference theme, Convergence: how design, ecology, social activism, business, and economics intersect as each discipline works toward sustainable solutions.
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Bringing movement and color to the stage itself gave the event an aura of optimism and sophistication.
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Interstitials added energy to every speaker and every moment in between.
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The website was more than just the online home of the conference – it became a place to drive participation, build community and share the event with those who could not attend in person.
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The blog allowed us to build momentum before the event and drive conversation afterward.
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[ Roll over movie to pause ] The seeds we planted at our conference in San Francisco grew over 20 satellite events at AIGA chapters and educational institutions across North America.

  • Mohawk Fine Papers_ Get in the Loop

  • Abundance Found_ Empowering Partnership

  • Vaska Natural Detergents_ Active Ingredient

  • The Living Principles_ Creative Action

  • California Wine Institute_ Global Appeal

  • BSR_ Illuminating a Global Network

  • Frameline Film Festival_ Think Pink & Beyond

  • Yerba Buena_ Neighborhood Intersections

  • HERproject_ Keeping Business Healthy

  • GreenBiz Group_ Thriving Ecosystem

  • Tools for Peace_ Tools for Growth

  • Peace Cereal_ Abundant Goodness

  • Dagoba Chocolate_ Taste Exploration

  • k.d. lang_ Recollection

  • Hello, New._ Campaign Trail

  • Scharffen Berger_ Adventures in Chocolate

  • Compostmodern_ Planting the seeds

  • Denver Public Schools_ Reading Rockets

  • Dockers_ Not Your Dad's Pants

  • SF Health Department_ Crystal Mess

  • Avaya_ Communication Without Boundaries

  • Dockers_ Cut from the Original Cloth

  • Nyne_ Forward Fashion

  • PepsiCo_ Philosophical Differences

  • Rearden Commerce_ The Anti-Dot-Com

  • Charles Chocolate_ One Very Hot Chocolate

  • Janus_ Get there. Invented here.

  • Target_ A Dose of Surrealism and Whimsy

  • Target_ Works of Art that Work

  • Janus TV_ Research brought to life

  • Michael Austin_ The Power of Personality

  • BACtrack_ A Breath of Fresh Air

  • Target_ Clutter Cutter