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Kristian Bjornard

Kristian Bjornard

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Aug 28, 2025

Democratization of Innovation

The Democratization of Innovation represents a profound shift in how we create and distribute value in society. By opening access to design…

Kristian Bjornard

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Aug 28, 2025

An Intersection of Design and Sustainability (Towards a Circular Economy)

The circular economy represents a paradigm shift from the traditional linear “take-make-dispose” model to a regenerative approach that…

An Intersection of Design and Sustainability (Towards a Circular Economy)

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Kristian Bjornard

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Nov 18, 2024

Exploring Plastic as a Case Study for the Circular Economy

As someone deeply committed to sustainability and regenerative design, I find working with plastic both challenging and necessary. Plastic…

Kids weaving a rug from plastic bread sacks over a modernist floral pattern.

Kristian Bjornard

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Nov 11, 2024

What Should Sustainable Graphic Design Look Like?

In an era where sustainability has become a pressing concern across all industries, the field of graphic design is no exception. As visual…

A graphic banner of 7 stripes. From left to right: Stripe 1 is an unhealthy earth with red bursts radiating around. Stripe 2 is green with the words “Eco-friendly” inside. Stripe 3 is pink with the word “Innovative” inside. Stripe 4 is blue with the words “Status Quo” inside. Stripe 5 is gray with the words “Non-Existent” inside. Stripe 6 is purple with the words “Vernacular/Lo-TEK” inside. The last stripe contains a healthy looking earth from space with green and lblue radianting lines around.

Kristian Bjornard

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Jun 14, 2024

Towards A New Design Commons

Ellen Lupton said of her book Thinking with Type that it was a book for everyone because everyone deserves good typography. I think that…

Black text reads “Towards a new design commons” over a scientific image of rainbow prism graphics.

Kristian Bjornard

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Feb 5, 2024

Re-thinking Plastics: Towards a Recycular Economy

Musings on design within the circular economy

Re-thinking Plastics: Towards a Recycular Economy

Kristian Bjornard

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Mar 2, 2023

From Indesign to Pure Content

The following essay is from a series of writings I turned into a lecture in 2014. From 2011–2014 my work colleagues and I explored a bunch…

XML version of content to be fed to Indesign, Structure already in the XML automatically can display paragraph styling named with same name as tags. woohoo.

Kristian Bjornard

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Jul 16, 2022

LibreDesign: TeX/MetaFont Detour

The foundation of Free/Libre Open Source is connected to the greater domain of printing and Graphic Design. A particularly interesting one…

Kristian Bjornard

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Jul 16, 2022

The Libre Designer

Towards an understanding of Free/Libre Open Source as Graphic Designers… Thoughts on freeing the practice of design… ?

The Libre Designer, a “poster” for a talk that happened way back in 2020. Gnu, Penguin, Pencil icons with big type that says “The Libre Designer” over an abstract green and brown background.

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Kristian Bjornard

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Nov 16, 2021

What is Sustainable Graphic Design?

I’m attempting to curate a space where visual designing and sustainability overlap meaningfully. I’ll walk us through some theories and a…

What is Sustainable Graphic Design? A collage of vintage imagery — a green palm tree, blue impossible circle, yellow case bound book and orange cellular structure … all on a gray background. This is meant to be a unique, interesting visual composition.

Kristian Bjornard

Kristian Bjornard

Designer / Thinker / Sustainabilitist … I run a design studio, I profess @ MICA, & I ride a bike nearly everywhere. AKA bjornmeansbear.

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