Thursday, May 14, 2009, 7 – 11pm
At Trinity Brewhouse in Providence
Featuring Matt Grigsby!

Matt Grigsby is an Industrial Designer, social entrepreneur, and sustainability expert. He is the CEO and Co-founder of Ecolect.net (http://www.ecolect.net ), the world’s leading online database of environmentally friendly materials. Their certified Material NutritionLabel™ provides transparency on why and how products are environmentally-friendly. Through materials, design, technologies, and life cycle analysis, Ecolect consults to provide tangible solutions to the tough environmental challenges facing product-based companies today. He is also a blogger with TreeHugger.com and AlternativeTransit.com. Matt is a graduate of the Industrial Design program at the Rhode Island School of Design and studied
Transportation Design at Strate Collège Designers
(http://www.stratecollege.fr/eng ) in France. In addition to his role at Ecolect, Matt is the Chair of the EcoDesign Section (http://www.idsa.org/whatsnew/sections/ecosection/index.html ) at the Industrial Designers Society of America ( http://www.idsa.org ).

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Design by Night (DxN) is AIGA RI’s monthly informal (and FREE!) get together held the 2nd Thursday of every month at a local bar/restaurant in downtown Providence.

Each month our goal is to feature local artists and advocates in the industry. DxN is an opportunity to chat with fellow designers and non-designers over food and drinks. Everyone is welcome to attend, and encouraged to participate.

In addition to our monthly event we are hoping to expand into providing studio tours, workshops and gallery nights. Any suggestions are more than welcome.

Hope to see you there!