Poster4Tomorrow: Words Are Power

Today the 100 selected posters for the Poster4Tomorrow worldwide exhibitions were revealed and I'm happy to announce that one of my designs made the cut! The megaphone/gun image is one I originally created for my talk at the How Conference in Austin this past June and it seemed like the perfect metaphor for talking about freedom of speech (and a shame not to use it again somewhere else). All of the posters are really beautiful and can be seen and downloaded (and used under a Creative Commons noncommercial share-alike license) from the site HERE. Congratulations to everyone that was included!

Posters4Tomorrow Exhibitions - December 10th Worldwide

Poster4Tomorrow, an international poster competition to promote freedom of expression, will have 23 worldwide exhibitions opening on December 10th. On display will be 100 posters selected by 9 jurors (including Marjane Satrapi, the author and filmmaker of Persepolis) from 1,834 submissions received from 67 countries. The entire 100 will be revealed online and in the galleries on the 10th, but here's a sneak preview of some of a few of the winners:




Exhibition location and dates:

Ankara, Turkey, Bilkent Universit, December 10-18
Beirut, Lebanon, Lebanese American University, December 10-17
Belgrade, Serbia, REX, Cultural Lab, December 10-14
Brussels, Belgium, Libre Académie de Belgique, December 10-13
Buenos Aires, Argentina, University of Buenos Aires, December 10-20
Cheonan, South Korea, SangMyung University, December 10-13
Derry, United Kingdom, University of Ulster, December 10-January 8, 2010
Gdansk, Poland, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, December 10-13
Heidelberg, Germany, Theaterplatz, Heidelberg, December 10-18
La Paz, Bolivia, Museo Nacional de Arte, December 10-January 8, 2010
Lima, Peru, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, December 10-15
Lisbon, Portugal, Lx Factory, December 10-14
Los Angeles, United States, Seyhoon Gallery, December 10-17
Marrakesh, Morocco, Ecole Supérieure des Arts Visuels, December 10-25
Milan, Italy, La Triennale di Milano, December 10-20
Montreal, Canada, École de Design, UQAM, December 10-14
Paris, France, Les Arts Décoratifs, December 10-13
Quito, Ecuador, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, December 10-January 10, 2010
Sevilla, Spain, Facultad de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, December 10-17
Stockholm, Sweden, Designens Hus, December 10-13
Strasbourg, France, Agora Building, Council of Europe, December 10- March 10, 2010
Tbilisi, Georgia, French Embassy Cultural Center, December 10-20

The project has been endorsed by Reporters Sans Frontiéres and the Italian chapter of Amnesty International and granted the endorsments of two interrnational organizations, the Council of Europe and the French Commission for UNESCO. More info about the entire project can be found HERE.

credits:
Paris exhibition poster: Illustration by Marjane Satrapi, Graphic design by Hervé Matine
Milan exhibition poster: Photo by Sergio Tornaghi - Studio Smog, Graphic design by Pasquale Volpe
THE PRESSident: Pamela Campagna, Thomas Scheiderbauer - Triggiano, Italy
Censure: Rémi Gombert - Perenchies, France
Because this mouth is mine: Frank Arbelo - La Paz, Bolivia
Hello: Babak Madandar - Tehran, Iran
Freedom of expression : Mingliang Li - Guangzhou, China

After Life: a skull exhibition

Sorry for the lack of posting here, but after being in Austin for a week for the How Design Conference (which I'll post more about soon), I returned to put the finishing touches on After Life, an art show based on my Skull-A-Day project, which opens tonight here in Richmond, Virginia at Quirk Gallery. Here are a few photos of the installation of 100+ pieces, including several that have never been shown before...



Additional photos are on Flickr HERE.
The show runs through August 22nd, so if you are in the area please do stop by and check it out.

p.s. If you are a gallery owner and would like to bring this show or a show of large scale prints from the project to your space please get in touch.

Plant The Piece: In Sweden

I was delighted to see this image of the Seed Guns created by Christopher Humes and myself as part of our Plant The Piece project on exhibition in Sweden. They are on display through the summer of 2009 as part of the juried show Take Action! at the Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg.

More pictures of the exhibition are on the Plant The Piece site HERE.

Do you have Change For A Ten?

ART 180 is a Richmond, Virginia based non-profit that works to connect children in difficult circumstances to the self-expressive power of art. As part of their ongoing fundraising efforts they have created the Change For A Ten campaign. They are encouraging folks to create a ten dollar bill that expresses their vision for positive change in their community and send it along with an actual $10 donation. The resulting pieces are being displayed on their blog and will be eventually show in an exhibition at Virginia Commonwealth University's advertising department Brand Center. There's even a competition specifically for creative students/professionals (PDF).

Find out more about Change For A Ten and get a template to make your own submission HERE.

Signs of Change, NYC: Sept 20 - Nov 22

Josh MacPhee of Just Seeds has co-curated Signs of Change an exhibition with Dara Greenwald chronicling 50 years of activist art which opens September 20th at Exit Art gallery in NYC. It will feature 600 posters, prints, photographs, moving images, audio clips, and other ephemera from over 30 countries. Along with the exhibition there will be a series of related events, including film/video screenings. Details can be found HERE. And eventually on the show site (which is still under construction) HERE.