Naked Binder

Need binders? Go Naked.

DK Design Studio ~ Makin’ Babies

Projects like this are the icing on the “graphic design studio cake”.

Feel free to donate to the cause here.

DK Design Studio Store ~ Now Open

It only took us 2 years but the DK Design Studio Store is now open.

We’ve been doing a lot of work with PropellShops and this is more-or-less a testing site for their service. We’ll be adding a bunch more products in the coming weeks.

Enjoy….comment….request items. DK Design Studio Store.
You can also check out PropellShops here.

Climate Counts Company Scorecard for 2009

From Climate Counts.

While facing the worst economic recession since the Great Depression, many companies have responded to the urgency of climate change by slashing energy costs, investing in the future, and working to change consumer perceptions of business.

The Climate Counts Company Scorecard provides people with an objective, balanced way to gauge which of the world’s most well-known consumer companies are seriously committed to reversing climate change—and which ones are not. This annual effort scores the leading companies in major consumer sectors, on a scale of 0 to 100, on their practices to reduce global warming. Simply put, the higher the score the greater the company’s commitment to reversing climate change.

Ninety companies in twelve sectors were scored in the third annual Climate Counts Company Scorecard to determine if progress had been made with regard to their company-wide climate commitment. The scorecard sectors include:
Airlines Food Products
Apparel/Accessories Food Services
Beverages-Beer Hotels
Commercial Banking Household Products
Consumer Shipping Internet/Software
Electronics Media

*Sectors scored for the first time earlier this year were as follows: Home and Office Furniture/Furnishings, Large Appliances, Pharmaceuticals, Toys & Children’s Equipment.

Since its first release of scores in 2007, Climate Counts has categorized companies by their scores in the following way: 2009’s Key Findings highlight which companies are Striding to combat climate change, which companies are Starting to take action, and which companies
remain Stuck in their ability to adapt.

12 points or less: STUCK in efforts to address climate change
13-49 points: STARTING in efforts to address climate change
50 points or higher: STRIDING in efforts to address climate change

KEY FINDINGS
• 81% of companies improved their score by an average of 22% from 2008 to 2009.
• 45 companies were ranked as “striding” (making progress toward change) vs. 23 last year.
• 14 companies are still ranked as “stuck” vs. 10 last year.
• Nike, the company with the highest overall score of 83 points, improved by 1 point and held onto the top spot.
• eBay’s point increase made it the most improved company from 2008 to 2009, with an increase of 48 points.
• Apple, Levi Strauss, US Airways, and Darden Restaurants all boosted their scores by 30 or more points.
• The sector with the highest average score is the electronics sector (average among 12 companies of 65 points), led by IBM with 76 points.
• The hotels and the food services sectors tied for the lowest overall sector averages of 25 points.

Download the full report here.

Happy Holidays Wallpaper from DK Design Studio

Happy Holidays.

Click to download.

Props to the Printers

Happy Thanksgiving Wallpaper from DK Design Studio

Here’s our Thanksgiving Wallpaper for 2009. Click to download. Enjoy.

DK Design Studio Featured on “This Ain’t No Disco”

Our Oakland studio was featured on the “This Ain’t No Disco” website yesterday.

How fun!

eco stucco™ Website by DK Design Studio

eco stucco is a range of lime plasters designed to provide healthy, functional, and sustainable mineral finishes for walls, facades, and ceilings in the form of artistically handtrowel artisan plasters.

A sustainable alternative to cement plaster, acrylic plaster, and other high embodied CO2 coating products, eco stucco cures and hardens naturally by carbonation and without exhalation of toxic, hazardous gases. During the curing process, the lime (calcium hydroxide) slowly absorbs the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and releases its water content.

The process results in a mineral crust made exclusively of calcium carbonate – the chemical structure of limestone – derived from the presence of sand and the carbonation of lime.

We recently finished up their website design and programming.

The site is a WordPress CMS system that allows the user to make changes to text and photos without knowing any code.

One particularly interesting feature on the site is the Color & Texture page. We developed a program that allows the user to see the results available with their 216 colors and 7 textures. If you click on a texture and a color you get a representation of what it would look like once applied to a surface.

We had a lot of fun designing this site and working with eco stucco. They are based in Sausalito and have a great product and philosophy.

Happy Halloween from DK Design Studio

We just ordered our “responsible” halloween treats from Clif Bar. Spooky S’mores! Sound….spooky. http://clifbarstore.com/detail/CLF+191+SS

Here are some chocolates that are fair trade.
http://www.sweetearthchocolates.com/prod.itml/icOid/333

AND….here’s our halloween wallpaper or desktop image for 2009. HAPPY HALLOWEEN.

Click to download.