After two years of planning, Ecolect LLC has gone live with its free online library of sustainable materials. The launch was announced today from the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design/Industrial Designers Society of America “Connection ’07” World Design Congress in San Francisco.

...Today, Grigsby is principal and founder of the Providence-based industrial design firm Design Awareness. He also is the winner of this year’s Rising Star Innovator award – one of the PBN and R.I. Economic Development Corporation’s 2007 Rhode Island Innovation Awards – for his role in developing Ecolect.