Systems Thinking for the Graphic Designer 101:

Eric Benson
3 min readDec 7, 2019

A Toolkit for Making Positive Impact

Illustration for Re-nourish by Veronica Steffen

The planet and humanity needs designers to change the way they make things. This was the astutely accurate thesis from the 2002 book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart.

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Eric Benson

Associate Professor and Chair of Graphic Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Co-founder of Re-nourish & Fresh Press Agri-Fiber Paper Lab.