OUGD505 - Foot Print talk

We recently had a talk from Leeds based ecological minded printers who can print booklets, zines, leaflets, stickers, newsletters, fliers, books and CD covers. What is unique about Foot Print is that they are workers of co-operative, which means the business is owned by the workers. As they have no bosses the workers run it as they want, doing interesting jobs for interesting people. They aim to be straightforward, friendly, responsible and responsive, rather than ‘aiming to deliver comprehensive multi-platform printing solutions to clients in the voluntary and vocationally challenged sectors’. Foot Print do it as ethically as they can, printing on proper recycled papers, powered by a genuine green electricity tariff and using the least environmentally damaging processes they can find. Its also a charitable organisation as they give a percentage of each job to a worthy cause. During the talk I had a browse of the Foot Print website and from what I seen they offer printing services which I would consider for studio brief 02. As I am to produce a piece of design that has ethical and sustainable issues at the core of it then Foot Print would be an option for printing.