The Green PhD Thesis
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To help you make a sustainable choice for printing your PhD thesis, GreenThesis offers free hosting of digital PhD theses for a year. This way, you can have less theses printed and save a lot of paper as well as money.
Below you can find a selection of our green theses that are currently hosted on our website. To view a landscape view of the cover design or to read the digital thesis, please click the image to visit the author’s page.
Examples of
Green PhD Theses
Marnix Westein
Handpainted design with eco-friendly paint and ink made from acorns. Printed on 100% recycled paper with a grass paper cover.
Lianne ten Have
A handpainted orchard with eco-friendly handmade watercolour paints. Printed on 100% recycled paper with a grass paper cover.
Johanna Thomann
Johanna took a cover design course with GreenThesis and learned to make ink from natural materials to paint the design.
Walter Legerstee
Handpainted design with eco-friendly handmade watercolour paint. Printed on 100% recycled paper with a grass paper cover.
Emma Koemans
Handpainted organic design with eco-friendly watercolours and ink on angiopathy. Printed on 100% recycled paper.
Bas van den Berg
Handpainted design with eco-friendly handmade vegan watercolour paint. Printed on 100% recycled paper with a grass paper cover.
Thomas Nijman
Design painted with handmade paint from algae pigments, made specifically for this project. Proudly printed on 100% recycled paper.
Felix Fennemann
Handpainted design with eco-friendly paint combined with digital design. Printed on 100% recycled paper with a grass paper cover.
Madelon Logtenberg
Design painted completely by hand using earth pigments. The theses were printed on 100% recycled paper.
Kees van Ginkel
A handpainted design combined with digital drawn details. Proudly printed on grass paper.
Amara Nassar-Sheikh Rashid
Handpainted design, with ink made from henna. Printed on 100% recycled paper with a grass paper cover.
Anne Kamps
Handpainted design with eco-friendly handmade watercolour paint. Printed on 100% recycled paper with a grass paper cover.
Marije Hagendijk
Handmade design with handmade watercolors. Printed on 100% recycled paper with an grass paper cover.
Avis Nugroho
For this thesis on cheese production, Elma made special paint from Annatto seeds. The thesis webpage shows a video of this process.
Robert Larruina
Handpainted design with eco-friendly handmade watercolour paint. Printed on 100% recycled paper with a grass paper cover.
Laura Loman
Completely handpainted design, based on the hands of the author’s family. Printed on 100% recycled paper.
Barbora Waclawikova
Handpainted watercolourdesign depicting metabolic pathways in the gut. Painted using sustainable watercolours on Bamboo paper.
Joyce Mulder
Completely handpainted design on bamboo paper using earth pigments and indigo. The theses were printed on 100% recycled paper.
Jack Jansma
A handpainted design using handmade watercolours in natural earth ochres and indigo. Proudly printed on grass paper.
Joanke van Dijk
Handpainted design with a.o. paint made from beetroot juice, merging the thesis subject on make-up colours, with the choice for materials.
Suzanne Timmermans
Thesis designed during a one-on-one cover design workshop and painted by Suzanne herself. Printed on 100% recycled paper with a grass paper cover.
Walter Legerstee
Handpainted design with eco-friendly handmade watercolour paint. Printed on 100% recycled paper with a grass paper cover.
Rosanne Anholt
Handmade design with handmade watercolors and homemade walnut ink. Printed on 100% recycled paper with a grass paper cover.
Rick Hogeboom
Completely handpainted design, including handmade French ochre paint for the earth surface. Printed on 100% recycled paper.
Audrey Meulendijks
Digitally drawn representation of varicose veins. Printed on 100% recycled paper with a Paperwise® cover.
Jolanda Theeuwen
The result of a sustainable & plastic-free cover design course, painted by hand by Jolanda herself. Printed on 100% recycled paper with a grass paper cover.
Eduardo Preusser de Matos
Digitally drawn design in 19th century nature & lab journal style. Printed on 100% recycled paper with a Paperwise® cover.
Svenja Mintenig
Handpainted design with eco-friendly ochres and indigo paint, in combination with digital drawings and photos. Printed on 100% recycled paper.
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