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Jason

May 8th, 2008 at 6:54 am

Hi, I am a Photoshop newbie, so please bear with me. I too am having troubler with the rounded corners and the Web 2.0 Gradient. I have downloaded your psd files (btw, thank you very much for providing them) but I am lost.
I was able to drag your highlight layer to my doc and use it with no problem. Although, I am clueless as to how I can duplicate the process. Furthermore, the rounded corners elude me. Can you help me? Should I look to another of your tutorials?
Thanks for your site. I really enjoy what you are doing.
Jason

Restaurants hungry for Nordic Ecolabel

The hip gourmet restaurant Salt & brygga in Malmö is the fifth restaurant in Sweden to get the Nordic Ecolabel. Among the first customers, following the announcement, were delegates from a world meeting of ecolabelling organizations, held in nearby Lund.
 
The restaurant is situated in an exclusive area of Malmö, built on an old harbour site for the exposition Bo01. The famous sky scraper Turning Torso is in the neighbourhood.

Björn Stenbeck, the owner of Salt & brygga, is well known for his pioneering work to promote organic and locally produced food. But the concern for the environment goes all the way from small details like PVC-free electricity wires to leather seats manufactured without any use of heavy metals. With his strong commitment to the environment, he is a well-known figure in the business.

"I’ve worked this way for 20 years and I’m not going to take a rest now", says Björn Stenbeck.

The criteria were released in December 2006. To this date five restaurants in Sweden have recieved the label. Three restaurants are in the Scandic chain: the Winn hotel in Karlstad and the conference centers of Infra City, north of Stockholm, and Två Skyttlar, near Gothenburg. The fourth is the ecologically profiled conference and education centre Sånga Säby.

For more information please contact Malin Möller, malin.moller@ecolabel.se 
   

The Swan is the new black

No less than three major Swedish clothes retailer chains - FilippaK, JC and Polarn och Pyret - have released their own collections of clothes carrying the Nordic Ecolabel.

The break through for ecolabelled clothes in Sweden is part of a growing interest for organically produced cotton and other environmentally-sound fabrics - both in the fashion business and among customers.

Since summer, three popular Swedish chains offer clothes with the Nordic Ecolabel. It is the high confidence for the "Swan" among consumers - together with the cradle to the grave approach of the criteria - that makes the Nordic Ecolabel desirable as a marketing tool for eco friendly clothes.

"It is through our collaboration with the Nordic Ecolabel we can have a guarantee that the whole process - from the cotton plant to the manufacturing - is environmentally sound. This is just a start for our long term thinking in terms of eco-friendly design", says Maj-La Pizelli, Product Director at Filippa K.

For more information please contact Anders Moberg; anders.moberg@ecolabel.se 
  

Printers respond to new challenge

Having ecolabelled printed products for many years, the Nordic Ecolabel this year took a challenging new step. New criteria for the printers’ whole business, rather than only the printed products, were launched.

One problem with the old model was printers who had a license to produce Nordic Ecolabelled products, but never, or rarely, did. In these cases, a "Swan" license didn’t have much impact and, worse, could be inter-preted in the wrong way.

With the new system, the whole printing business must comply to certain criteria to get a licence. And only Nordic Ecolabelled printers can print products with the Nordic Ecolabel.

As of November 2007, over 160 printers have recieved the Nordic Ecolabel.

For more information please contact Ingela Hellström, ingela.hellstrom@ecolabel.se
  

Metsä Tissue makes record donation

A sum of 1 million Swedish kronor, one of the largest donations for an environmental project so far in Sweden, was given by soft paper giant Metsä Tissue in October. The money will help young polar researchers' work for the International Polar Year, IPY.

This was the first time that IPY accepted money from the business community. The Nordic Ecolobel was a guarantee for the company’s commitment to the environment. Metsä Tissue markets a number of products with the Nordic Ecolabel. They also were the first company to comply with the new tightened requirements for soft tissue made of recycled paper.

One part of the donated sum has been used to arrange a large work shop for young polar researchers from all around the world. The rest of the donation will finance two extra expeditions to Kinnvika in Svalbard. There, important data will be collected to help judge developments in the Arctic area and trace the effects of the global warming.

For more information please contact Cecilia Ehrenborg Williams, cecilia.ehrenborg@ecolabel.se  
  

Introducing Cygnus Cygnus

Meet Cygnus Cygnus: a witty whooper with a strong commitment to the Nordic Ecolabel and to the environment.

Cygnus Cygnus is latin for whooper, the species of swan pictured in the Nordic Ecolabel’s logo. Still, these are two individual birds with slightly different missions.

Cygnus is the younger relative of the Nordic swan; an environmentalist at heart and the ecolabel’s greatest fan. Being, as it were, an outside person he will be able to express himself in a freer manner than the Nordic ecolabel normally does. He has indeed a sharp tongue, but also a big heart, and has already become an appreciated character, especially among young people.

Cygnus will be used as a spokesperson for the Nordic Ecolabel in marketing campaigns directed to private customers. He also challenges people to do a test of their environmental sustainability on the Nordic Ecolabel’s website.

For more information please contact Brita Forsström; brita.forsstrom@ecolabel.se   
New campaign - new web site

A new campaign for the Nordic ecolabel was launched i November. "How sustainable are you?" is the theme.

The launch was held in Södertälje 9-10 November, half an hour southwest of Stockholm. Södertälje is the home town of the famous tennis star Björn Borg. There were exhibitions, happenings, a seminar with a well-known TV meteorologist, an environmental quiz for schools etc.
 
In the coming years the "Swan" plans to travel to other places in Sweden. Much of the campaign will also center around the new web site.

One example of this is the web test "How sustainable are you", in Swedish expressed as a play of words "Hur Svanlig är du?", literally translated to "How much of a swan are you/how much like the average person are you?".

For more information please contact Brita Forsström; brita.forsstrom@ecolabel.se