Last year during October 7th-20th, the streets of Denver were filled with 48 banners portraying the same idea as those in Time Square. 24 professional designers were paired up with 24 students and each team created two banners to be displayed side by side. The banners hung on California between 14th and 16th.
The banners were donated by Banner Collections and were constructed from a unique fabric called Ecophab, which is made from 100% recycled plastic bottles. Just like the New York project, the banners were then recycled into tote bags and auctioned off. The tote bags raised $2,500 and was donated to education initiatives.
I don't remember seeing these around, although, now that I am involved with design, I wish we could do this project again and get involved!
2 comments:
Thanks for doing additional research on this. I too wish I had known about this. Hopefully they will have another event like this.
i don't remember seeing them either, i guess we were way far-off from the design field that we don't see such things around us, unless the designs were just simply not that interesting to the point that would caught our attention at that time... or we were just digging around else where...
whatever the reason was now we have blogs to update new things around us, hurray ! and thank you for posting this "Denver's Own Urban Forest" it's making me try open my eyes and ears more :)!
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