Our creative director Marilyn, was recently profiled in the Rochester Post for her generous volunteer work. Rochester’s Downtown Development Authority awards merit to members who show a caring and committed attitude towards making our community a better place. Congrats Marilyn! If you look closely, you can see our banner design for the Rochester Green City Committee resting in the background.
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We were honored to be chosen to create a website for a plug-in vehicle company in Michigan. The company just rolled out its fleet of plug-in vehicles in July 2009. Visit the site and let us know what you think. www.ggtelectric.com
Trent Design is finding ways to continue the tradition of paper marketing while being earth-friendly by encouraging our clients to choose recycled and FSC certified paper. And many paper companies are producing green lines of their paper, including Neenah who has their Neenah Green line of Environment® Papers. All Environment® Papers are made with 100% certified renewable energy and are made with a minimum of 30% post consumer fiber. Neenah believes that “Smart, environmentally responsible choices shouldn’t be an ‘alternative,’ they should be the standard.” And we concur.
Trent Design is the official design team for the 4th Annual Earth Day Expo, which will be held in downtown Rochester on April 18 & 19. Trent Design has designed all of the posters, postcards and banners advertising the event, which is free and open to the public and will attract an anticipated audience of more than 50,000 people interested in green living and looking to discover healthy, earth-friendly alternatives in food, energy, transportation, clothing, home, garden, finances and more. In fitting with the theme of creating a brighter, greener future for our community, steps were taken to ensure that all marketing materials were made as green as possible. The posters were printed on 100% post consumer recycled paper. 95% of the banners were made from BIOflex®, which is a nontoxic biodegradable banner material, which in landfill conditions (darkness, high heat, moisture and lack of oxygen), attracts microbes that break down the PVC within 3 to 5 years. The vertical banners on the light posts in downtown Rochester were printed with aqueous based inks as opposed to solvent based inks. They were also thru-printed, which means that the ink penetrates through to the back side of the material, which means that ink and energy consumption are reduced by 50%.
