The Social Communication Project
Though you will be asked to design a social poster on a social brief for a nongovernmental organization only a few times in your career, it is nonetheless true that, year after year, charities are in dire need of raising public awareness on their daily activity. It’s GOOD 50×70 2010. You know what to do.
HEALTHCARE DEPRIVATION Andre Casaclang, Australia, 2009 Edition
Right now, almost a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water.
Scott Harrison of Charity: Water spoke last Friday at the Big Omaha conference. I’d say it was the best of the weekend. An impassioned plea to end the water crisis. To take on that far too high a number of one billion people that lack access to clean water. His story is truly inspiring. Reimagining the idea charity, creating a design that doesn’t suck, and allowing people to connect to the cause on the ground they decide to support. In this case a well for $5000 that serves 250 people with clean, safe water.
It is a crisis. And we can solve it. In Scott’s words: If not now, when? If not us, who?
Big Omaha 2010
Big Omaha is Silicon Prairie News’ (SPN) premier event, held each May in Omaha, Nebraska. This year’s speakers include Tony Hsieh of Zappos.com, Dennis Crowley of foursquare and Scott Harrison from Charity: Water.
There’s a new generation of innovators and entrepreneurs who are passionately making their mark on our community and Big Omaha is for them. This event brings together the region’s best and brightest to motivate, challenge, excite and connect with one another, and in turn raise the bar on the level of work we’re producing.
Should be a good time. And props, of course, to the guys at Oxide Design for the nice, nice design.
From Big Omaha 2009
Certified B Corporation
B Corporations are a new type of corporation which uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. Part of the responsibility revolution.
Some notable B Corps
capital punishment breaches the universal declaration of human rights. it's that simple.
poster for tomorrow, an international project to promote active citizenship through the medium of design, has announced their competition for 2010. This year they’re calling for universal abolition of the death penalty under the theme: death is not justice. Download the Call for Entries.
We believe in design, and posters, as a medium to inspire social change. What you create as an artist, graphic designer or art director can inform, provoke emotion and motivate people to action. It’s a great gift. And a gift you can use to inspire change in the world. We believe the death penalty is a violation of human rights and that it has no place in modern society. And that’s what we want to change in 2010. We hope you’ll join us. One poster is a start. But hundreds, thousands, become a movement that cannot be denied.
A collaborative effort by the design community to help effect change.
My wife and I like to make time to work on projects together. She’s more of a writer, myself more of a designer. Together, we’re a force to be reckoned with. Recently, as tragedy struck Haiti, and the world scrambled to find ways to help, we wanted to spend some of our time together making something that could be part of the effort to help the people living through such a horrendous situation.
With the goal of raising $1,000,000 for Doctors Without Borders, The Haiti Poster Project was conceived as a collective effort by the design community to unite and effect change. This collaboration of artists and designers from around the world benefitting victims of the earthquake in Haiti was an effort we whole-heartedly support. And we made this poster together for the effort. (more…)
A STORY OF VOLUNTEER DESIGN
Personal pledge cards for our community group Lincoln Green by Design.
This article is part of The Volunteer Design Chronicles appearing on Design Observer.
On a random weekend evening my wife and I decided to sit down and write some lines about environmental stewardship. They turned into personal pledge cards for a community organization I got myself involved with called Lincoln Green by Design. The cards were designed in an eco-friendly way, made out of paper scraps from past print runs. The messages were both sustainable and witty. One of my personal favorites was “I will eat local. Food not people.” Right up there with “I will stop (using plastic sacks) in the name of love.”
Our small effort was just one part of a bunch of other small efforts by a handful of dedicated creative people who jumped in and helped make this loose collection of concerned citizens into something worthy of attention. (more…)
Handpulled for Haiti | Mayday by Karen Koch
From W+K Studio: A benefit show for the Haiti relief effort, all PRINT proceeds go directly to Mercy Corps. Our friends Karen, Curt and Steve are part of the effort with some lovely posters. The opening was February 4th in Portland. You can visit their online store to make a purchase and help the cause.
Frustration by Curtis Pachunka | We Need Somebody by Steve Denekas
DesignforHaiti.com: A creative call to action to design.
Design for Haiti is another design project from Aaron Perry-Zucker (Design for Obama, makeUSgreen). The mission: to collect Haiti posters that either advocate relief efforts or visualize information leading to a better understanding of the situation in Haiti. “We are especially seeking top notch info graphics that give the audience an ‘ah-hah’ moment where they learn something and perhaps see the situation differently.” Consider it a creative call to action to design. The following images are several fine examples.
Ayudemos a Haití by Neos Brand | The Living sleep among the Dead 2 by Christopher Griego
Help Haiti by Xhengis | Aid Within by deedee914
TMF started out as a place for doers, dreamers, sketchers, crafters and mess-makers to congregate, get inspired and create. This current incarnation is a simple extension of that intent. A pathway from what is now, to what could be tomorrow. Onward!
