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Virtual Water
Did you know that only six percent of water goes to drinking, washing and other household uses? According to an article in the January edition of Landscape Architecture magazine, the other 94 percent is virtual water, or the amount of water it took to make the products we consume each day.
An article in Mother Jones magazine titled, “What’s Your Water Footprint,” had some interesting facts to share. Did you know that a cotton T-shirt requires 719 gallons of water to manufacture? Or that a pint of beer takes 20 gallons of water to make before you can enjoy it. Never mind that the trip to the pub wouldn’t happen if not for the mid-sized car that uses 39,090 gallons.
Let it Marinate
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Melissa Martin.
Do you swear to let it marinate, completely marinate and not return until it is fully marinated, so help your graphic design career?
So help my career, I do.
Today I got stuck in the purgatory all graphic designers know as design block. I was working on creating a marketing piece intended for a monograph pitch and just felt stuck. No amount of shifting photos or re-arranging titles was fixing the fact that something just wasn’t working.
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