826DC The Museum of Unnatural History. Design Director Oliver Munday.

Barnbrook is one of the most well-known creative studios in Britain. The team of designers specialise in producing innovative books, corporate identities, CD covers, custom fonts, websites and magazines. Clients range from international museums to charitable organisations. Brilliant.

Brett Yasko is a graphic designer working from a one-person studio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Great range, depth, concepts + designs. Enjoy.

Conflict Kitchen

A Good War is Hard to Find

White Like Me

The Say Something Poster Project is a poster design competition and gallery show created to give designers the opportunity to use poster design to say something that will inspire, motivate and educate teenage kids.

Download the Call for Entries PDF Online Voting: Nov 15 – Dec 31.

DESIGN AS ACTIVISM

ATTENTION!

The Battle for Whiteclay is a documentary film project created to call attention to a tragic situation. The film, appropriately described by Indian activist Frank Lamere, “chronicles a painful odyssey that should give pause to the caring, the oblivious, and those who don’t give a damn.”

It doesn’t take long to drive through Whiteclay. In a blink of an eye, you pass four liquor stores in a town with a population of 14. Then it’s down a two-mile stretch of road to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Hot sun and blue sky overhead. Slow, stale misery on the ground. You get a sense for the centuries of exploitation and abuse. And knowing what’s at work in the community, there really is no way to go there and not be moved to act in some way.

On Saturday, June 11, 2005, at Noon there was a march from the Reservation in South Dakota to Whiteclay, Nebraska to demand that illegal sales of alcohol to Indians be stopped. Some 11,000 cans of beer are consumed every day. There’s crippling poverty. An epidemic of alcohol abuse. On the reservation the unemployment rate is 75% and average life expectancy for men is 48 and 52 for women. It’s been a decade long struggle for justice on the streets of Whiteclay to the halls of Nebraska’s State Capitol. The point of the march was to increase awareness of the situation and, hopefully, begin ending such a bold illegality. (more…)

Placing People Above Profit

HOW Magazine (September/October 2010) recently featured the Battle for Whiteclay project as part of their Designing Change column, which highlights designers influencing social change. A nice piece written by Jessica Kuhn, which helps continue to draw attention to the issue.

“Design as activism sits right in the middle of everything else made to influence people: trying to motivate the caring, turn on the oblivious and battle against those who just don’t give a damn.”

The large format 24×38″ Posters were the main focus of the Exhibition. But a couple interactive elements were added as the installation really got going. In two places people could take part in the MAKE (THIS) BETTER idea by answering the question: “what would you make better?” (Markers were provided.) We recorded video as well, so people could answer more in depth. (The edited video will be posted online soon.) And to go along with Micah’s poster series, Kindness, Patience, Forgiveness, little tear-offs were put at the foot of each of the posters. (more…)

From September 9–24 in 2010 The New BLK Gallery + Power to the Poster + Nicholas Burroughs proudly presented POWER TO THE POSTER: THE EXHIBITION 34 Posters Promoting Dissent, Hope & Ideas. For those of you who could not attend, here are some photos.

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Poster Design by Nicholas Burroughs

The New BLK Gallery + Power to the Poster + Nicholas Burroughs proudly present…

POWER TO THE POSTER: THE EXHIBITION

34 POSTERS PROMOTING DISSENT, HOPE & IDEAS

An exhibition of posters selected from PowerToThePoster.org. The site exists to bring people together around a ready supply of well-designed, wild postings that comment on the issues of our time. The 11×17 posters in PDF format are for anyone, anywhere to download, print and post. The exhibition will showcase some of most compelling posters from 25 designers in 11 states and 8 countries.

September 9-24
6-9 PM
New BLK Gallery
1213 Jones St.
Omaha, NE
As part of Omaha Creative Week

The large format 24×38 inch posters were generously printed by Photographics Imaging. Proceeds went to Design Alliance OMAha, a group working to bring leading-edge design ideas that are shaping our world to the community.

Appetite Engineers: There is JOY in the Intense Harmonic Ragged Mysterious Teetering Messiness of all things that Stop and Start, Merg and Part, Clash and Concede. Just brilliant.

Open Magazine, Issue Two

Seeing Time Book Jacket

Tin Hat Trio, Helium

Rethink -- New Orleans -- Rebuild