Another Saturday. Another cartoon admonition to treat your waste with respect.

If you can’t read the signs you can’t prevent the apocalypse. Or get off at the right exit.

Another Saturday, another bit of advice on handling waste products and other potentially dangerous substances.

It’s Sunday and time for another Backyard Enterprises area rug design. Remember this one the next you spill hideous deadly chemicals. Do you have mad chemical containment skills? Why the heck not?

It’s the weekend, time for another couple of Backyard Enterprises area rug designs. This would be today’s design.

Another of the rug designs for Backyard Enterprises. Jeff Swensen did all the design work for BE products.

There’s quite a bit of BE material. In order to keep variety in my posts I’m going to be just posting the BE stuff on weekends. So, if you love visions of cartoon animals handling toxic wastes, you’ll want to be back here every Saturday and Sunday.

An example of one of the Backyard Enterprises area rug designs.

Besides booklets and posters the major product we designed were rugs. Since most of the business Backyard Enterprises planned to target were industrial spaces most of them also used some sort of area rugs that needed to be replaced on a regular basis. We found our client a source that printed logos and original designs on rugs and then set about designing a variety of simple messages and illustrations to go on them.

Besides the written materials Backyard Enterprises planned to offer products that would function as visual shorthand reminders of the rules outlined in the text. That means, of course, posters! Yay!

Backyard Enterprises was supposed to produce educational material about the proper (and legal) ways to manage and dispose of hazardous waste. The material was to be designed for entry level workers and meant to be concise and easily remembered. The man who hired us to create the materials worked in the chemical industry. Nizzibet took and passed a course on hazardous waste regulations in order to give us a better background in the subject.