Passion Play Poster in New York Times

The New York Times' Arts Beat blog posted a nice interview with me about the art I created for Epic Theatre Ensemble's latest production Passion Play by Sarah Ruhl. You can read the entire article HERE.

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 Acadˆ©mie 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 Supˆ©rieure des Arts Visuels, December 10-25
Milan, Italy, La Triennale di Milano, December 10-20
Montreal, Canada, ˆâcole de Design, UQAM, December 10-14
Paris, France, Les Arts Dˆ©coratifs, 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 Frontiˆ©res 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 Hervˆ© Matine
Milan exhibition poster: Photo by Sergio Tornaghi - Studio Smog, Graphic design by Pasquale Volpe
THE PRESSident: Pamela Campagna, Thomas Scheiderbauer - Triggiano, Italy
Censure: Rˆ©mi 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

Power To The Poster...on your wall

The folks at the Power To The Poster project are now offering high quality prints of 30 of the issue driven posters they've collected. I was proud to help with the selection process along with a long list of fellow socially conscious design folks. Each 15" x 24" poster sells for just $20, with $10 going to the artist and $10 to the printer and they just ask that you donate an additional $10 to a charity of your choice (there are larger posters available for a similar deal as well). The 30 selected posters can be purchased HERE. And of course all of the original posters can still be downloaded as hi-res PDFs from their site HERE.

Linkage: From Social Trading Cards to Social Stock Exchanges

I'm heading to Austin for a week, so hopefully this'll tide you over while I'm away...


The social reality trading card alternative to Pokemon.

Investing in a Social Stock Exchange.

Taxicab curator. Thanks Carlos!

Fallen Princesses (image shown) via

A classic anti-billboard screed from 1960. via

Eco-friendly alternative to motivational office posters (image shown). Thanks Marc!

Duchamp Reloaded (image shown) via

Clever Condoms

The ocean of plastic is on the East Coast as well.

Mini-Golf meets Art in Brooklyn. Thanks Mica!

Bacardi using misogyny to sell alcohol...to women?! via

And for those of you following the story from last week...
busted Barrel Monster artist gets a commision...from the company he stole from. Thanks Carlos!

The Future is Melting

Paul at Naughtyfish Design in Australia shared a lovely poster he recently created...
























You can even see the future melting entirely away in this video he shot during the photo session...

Global Warning from Paul Garbett on Vimeo.

Good50ˆó70 2009

The shortlisted posters from this year's Good50x70 socially conscious design contest are now online, see them all HERE.

Free Posters for Progressives

Design Action Collective and Inkworks Press are offering free poster design & printing to one lucky progressive organization via their Serve The People Poster Project. Deadline for applications is May 1st...

All you have to do is present an idea, and if selected, Design Action will donate $1000 of design, and Inkworks will print 1000 full color, tabloid sized posters for you use as you wish. For free. Simple as that. The application form can be found here.

Get the full details HERE.

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More Good (50x70)

The Good 50x70 folks have created a new Amsterdam specific version of their social design poster contest, that's still open to the general international public...

For the first time we're combining all Good 50x70's activities into one project - working with local charities, designers, schools to produce posters that will be displayed around Amsterdam and collected in a book that will published globally. As an extra incentive to enter, the creators of the 'winning' posters will work with a member of our jury of leading Dutch designers (including creatives from KesselsKramer, Only, Gorilla and ...,staat) to produce the final poster.

The Amsterdam contest is open to everyone, irrespective of location, and entries are welcomes until Midnight on Monday the 13th of April. The briefs are available, in Dutch and English, to download at http://good50x70.org/local/amsterdam/2009/

Also FYI they've extended the deadline for the international Good 50x70 to midnight on the 10th of April.

Africa + AIDS =

Paul Garbett of Naughtyfish design in Sydney, Australia shared this aggressive poster design.

The text reads:

"There are currently 26 million people living with AIDS in Africa.
During 2005, there were 3.2 million new infections in Africa and
2.4 million deaths as a result of AIDS. Africa has 12 million AIDS orphans.
Of the 6.5 million people living in developing and transitional countries
who need live saving AIDS drugs, only 1.3 million are receiving them.*

Don’Äôt you find that offensive?"

Power To The Poster - First 100 Days

Power To The Poster, the poster sharing website, has been recently revamped for the first 100 days of the Obama presidency. They're shifting to positive messages and color posters, but all are still available as free 11x17 PDF downloads. Check em out and find out more HERE.

Previously: Rally In Peace

Language Matters

DESIGN 21 just announced the winners of their Languages Matter! poster competition:

As the world continues to metaphorically shrink, so too does the global language pool. It is estimated that in a few generations, more than half of the nearly 7,000 known languages spoken around the world will disappear--taking along with it an unwritten account of a history, tradition and culture. In an effort to safeguard native languages and promote linguistic diversity, DESIGN 21: Social Design Network--an online platform founded by Felissimo and UNESCO to promote better design for the greater good--is proud to announce the winners of its latest competition. Developed by DESIGN 21 to help UNESCO raise awareness among designers about the importance of multilingualism, Languages Matter! is a contest that called on its international base of 18,000 members to design the official poster for International Mother Language Day on February 21st, 2009.

Overall winner: Anna Notara Koutroumpaki "Mother Language Must Live" Greece
























D21 JUDGE'S PICK (Jacques Lange): Jonathan Schute "50% Matters!" United States

























D21 JUDGE'S PICK (Omar Vulpinari): Vito Bica "Mother and Tongues" Germany
























See more entries and learn more about the competition HERE.

Call for Entries: Good 50X70 2009

The international socially conscious design poster competition Good 50x70 has sent out their 2009 call for entries:

The voice of hope in 2009 comes from America. While we all wait to see whether Barack Obama can turn his fine rhetoric into actions, Good 50x70 aims to follow his example by addressing seven critical issues threatening the earth and all its inhabitants and inviting the global creative community to produce posters on the briefs from our seven charities.

As of today, the 1st of February, our briefs on Child Labour, Climate Change, Healthcare Deprivation, HIV/AIDS, Nuclear Emergency, War on Terror and Women's Rights Deprivation are now online.

We're honoured to be working again with Amref, Amnesty, Emergency, Greenpeace, Lila, Unicef and WWF, whose briefs you can see here. Exactly as before, all you have to do is choose one (or more) brief that inspire you, create a poster, upload it and it'll be entered into the Good 50x70 database. All the posters will be provided to our endorsing charities for their potential use, and the the best 30 responses to each brief, as selected by our jury, will be exhibited around the world and published in a catalogue.

This year we welcome Ruth Klotzel, Santiago Pol and Svetlana Fadina to our jury.
We'd like to thank them, all our jury members and endorsing charities for the time and effort they give to Good 50x70. It wouldn't happen without you. Here's to a successful Good 50x70. We might not change any of the critical issues we're tackling in this year's edition, but together we can start.


Good 50x70 2009 Schedule
1st February 2009 - Call for Entries published. Briefs available to download here.
1st March 2009 - Good 50x70 database open for uploading entries via our website.
1st April 2009 - Midnight (CET) - Good 50x70 2009 closes for entries.


Additional information
Please visit our website at http://good50x70.org/
Our story in 59 seconds
Download our electronic press kit
Take a look at our pictures on Flickr
Become our friend on Facebook

Israeli Apartheid?

Kevin Yuen-Kit Lo at LOKi design shared a recent poster he designed for Tadamon!'s Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign. The current situation in Gaza is undeniably tragic, but like most of what happens in Israel/Palestine the response by progressives in the US is a mixed bag. The typical left/right dividing lines seem to shift when it comes to that region and I find it hard to talk with people about it since emotions run so high. I'm interested to know where readers of this blog fall. Feel free to comment below, though please be respectful of others here, I'm not looking for diatraibes and will delete personal attacks.

If you are interested you can download a PDF of Kevin's poster HERE.

Green Earth

One year after the 2007 "Love Your Earth" competition, Designboom.com along with TOBU department store and the Design Associaton Japan (DA) launched a new competition last summer : "Green Earth". This is an international design competition open to everyone created to raise awareness of the environmental issues affecting the planet.

There are two categories, the first one being "Green" and the second one being "Earth".
Green: Create a graphic artwork that illustrates the environmental protection and how human beings and nature could coexist in a greener world.
Earth: Give the gift of a greener world at Christmas. Create a graphic artwork that will make this festive time of the year a moment to consider what we can do to help our planet’Äôs survival.

The designers of the 5 winning entries were granted with cash prize awards

Also, TOBU department store printed a selection of the shortlisted entries on their "eco-bags" and other promotional material, which have been shown during the Tokyo Designer’Äôs Week 2008 (30 October - 03 November, 2008).

3966 designers from 91 different countries participated and the winners are :

1st Prize : "greening" design by : ji yoon yang from korea.

2nd Prize : "recycle at xmas" design by : benjamyn cox + lloyd moffat from uk.























3rd Prize : "plain cloud" design by : glen baghurst + matthew cullin from australia























santa's readjustment ' design by : camila gimeno from chile

See the results.

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Stop Pain

Check out the campaign from the French non-governmental humanitarian organization, supported by the World Health Organization and state-approved, Douleurs Sans Frontiˆ®res (Pain Without Borders). Like Doctors Without Borders they try to help people with medical and social care in areas where suffering caused by wars, disasters or hunger never ends.
In their campaign they used the treadmill to show the endless suffering of people in places like Cambodia, Indonesia or Africa.
This campaign was made in March of 2008 by TBWA/MAP Paris and is meant for raising funds.

"To put an end to endless pain, Make a donation"
War : Cambodia


















Tsunami : Indonesia


















Fires and War : Africa


















They also have a video :


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Water in Africa

Good 50x70 had the great idea to invite designers to submit posters for good causes.

Artist, designer, and urban planner in New York City, Candy Chang, did this great poster in collaboration with James Reeves for the African Medical and Research Foundation (amref) to bring awareness about the scarcity of safe water access in Africa.













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Unicef Campaign in China

This is the new campaign of the UNŸƒCEF association concerning China.
A strong baseline "Don't ignore me" and a touching creation by the Ogilvy & Mather Shanghai Agency.

The sign says : Don’Äôt ignore me.
China has over 1.5 million underprivileged children.
To help, call 020 82266673.












































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Attention California Voters: NO on 8 & YES on 2

My friend Jess at Roughstock Studios has made a lovely poster to remind California voters to vote NO on the anti-gay marriage Prop 8. Download a printable version on her site HERE.















And The Humane Society with Freerange Studios encourage California voters to vote YES on Prop 2 via this entertaining video...

30 More Resons

If you didn't already have enough reasons to vote for a change in the coming election, 30 Reasons is providing a daily additional one from October 7th to November 4th. Each day a new downloadable poster by a different graphic designer (many of them by familiar names like Milton Glaser and Chaz Maviyane-Davies) is posted. You can even sign up to be notified as new ones are added. Check them out HERE.

Thanks Mica!

ReThinking The Environment In The Carolinas

The Raleigh AIGA recently asked me to be one of the judges for a poster competition promoting environmentalism in North and South Carolina called: re|THINK. The 20 winning posters, selected by myself and 2 other judges, will be on display (and for sale) at the Designbox gallery in Raleigh, NC for the month of April, with an opening reception on April 4th. Even if you're not in the area you can preview all of the winning designs online now HERE.

Out of The Closet

Like every good New Yorker, I store. That is, I rent a closet where I keep all the things that don't fit into my studio apartment. And, although I was intrigued to discover that Nigerian gentlemen store their Not-Quite-Gucci bags right next to my roller skates and sewing machine, I really hadn't thought much about my rented closet. Until recently..

For the past few years, Manhattan Mini-Storage has been using a series of bold statements in their print ads which mostly came off as bad stand-up jokes. But their newest installment has taken an unusual turn and become blatantly political in an ugly yet eye-catching ad campaign. Take a look:

They are a bit sloppy for my own design sense but certainly have created something worth blogging about. Now that they are getting flak from those who disagree with the statements - they have launched a poll on their site where anyone can weigh in or even submit suggestions for new ads. What do you think, should politics be kept in the closet?

Good Posters

While you've missed your chance to participate in the Good 50x70 poster design competition, which encouraged students and professionals to create posters on five pressing social justice issues, you can see the co-winners and shortlisted finalists, juried by a group of well-respected folks, for each category here:

• AIDS
• Environmental Damage
• Human Rights
• Undersdevelopment
• War

Profits from sales of catalogs of the posters will go to the charities that supported the competition.

Thanks Marc!