Graphic design professionals work in all areas of the business community, and on a daily basis, their work involves purchasing services products from photographers, paper and ink manufacturers, typesetters and printers - all businesses for whom education about water quality issues are critical. To answer some of these needs, Partners in Design proposed and sought funding for a peer education project to examine and disseminate information on the environmental consequences of the use of these products, and provide ideas and alternatives.

"Sound Design" was funded by a $ 20,000 grant from the Puget Sound Water Quality Authority's Public Information Education fund along with additional funding and support from the Seattle chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). The project
produced a series of four posters, an informational booklet and a two-evening workshop to inform designers and their clients of environmentally sensitive alternatives in printing. An important result of the project was initiating creative partnerships to give back to the environment a little bit of what is taken from it. Nearly $ 30,000 of in-kind contributions of paper, printing and design services made "Sound Design" a reality.

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