Inspiration, cool stuff, etc #5

BRIDGE THE DIVIDE from ABOVE on Vimeo.

Ecofont is a typeface designed by SPRANQ to use 20% less ink.

An Interview with Eileen Yaghoobian on the Rock Poster.

Playing for Change Peace through music.

A collection of Anti-smoking Ads on Graphic Design Blog.

IDEO's Human Centered Design as seen on TED.

Political Cartoonist Nik Kowsar

Iranian political cartoonist Nik Kowsar had to flee Iran for fear of persecution for the social commentary of the Iranian government. His story is an amazing testament to the power of social statement based visual expression. Sometimes we need art that shows us what the world could be, but more importantly we need art to better explain what the world is.

Interview with Kowsar can be found here.

Religious Teachings of Sex Infographic

This infographic was deigned for ReligiousTolerance.org using a survey they conducted. Although amusing, the surveying methods are somewhat questionable.

Project M Report back from Marc Obrien

Marc O'Brien, a friend of mine, recently emailed a report back from his participation in Project M. With his permission, the email is below.

Hello,

I recently participated in Project M South 2009 in Greensboro, Alabama which was a month long summer intensive program run by John Bielenberg. This session of Project M brought ten young and creative individuals together to collaborate and learn how to “think wrong” about design and how it can foster positive change in the world.

As a team, we produced (blank)LAB.org and AshHoles.org. Out of the two projects, I was more involved with (blank)LAB.org and will hopefully see to it that it actually gets "on the road" in late Winter of 2010.

It was a long, hot, and inspirational month. I met many people from all over the country along with a ton of locals from Greensboro. Everyday, I witnessed new and amazing things in my surroundings. I also received personal insight from the many well-known & phenomenal designers who took time out of their schedule to come down and work with us.

Coming back to Virginia just a few days ago, I am doing a mental "detox" of everything that happened in Project M. The amount of things I learned from being there is definitely something that will take time to process and reflect. Currently, I am putting together a section on my site that will highlight the whole month of June with images, videos, etc.

Next? I will hope to take what I learned from Project M and implement it to my daily living and design practices. I plan on staying involved with Project M and its future endeavors. Once you participate in M, you're a M'er for life.

Here are some other Project M related links that you might like to explore:
Project M
Our Flickr Group
Pie Lab

Thanks for your support and guidance. Whether you realize this or not, I owe all of this to all of you.

--
marc o'brien
visual communicator
www.marcobrien.net

Animal Spot

Beautiful animations for non-profits. These animation are some of top ten non-profit finalists at Animal Spot, an annual competition for ads using animals to present information.

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Animal Protection Amsterdam: Veterinarian


RSPCA - Simon's Sister's Dog 'Fed Up'


Campanha - Y&R para Santa Casa


Originally seen on Osocio

Economic Fairy Tale

Economic Fairy Tale is an info-graphic ad discussing the current economic crisis.

Bleeding Billboard

Intelligent approach to a public service announcement, use of activation and the elements.

Where is my vote?

A website with posters, available for download, as a response to the deplorable acts of the Iranian government.

Posters can be found here

The project mission (as seen on the site):

"The purpose is of this site is simple: the free use of posters for protests and rallies in Iran and around the world, in support of Iranian's against the fraudulent election in Iran. You are free to take and use these banners. They have been designed to print cleanly on standard 11" x 8.5" paper. Also feel free to spread them to your friends on social networking sites like facebook and twitter and what not."

Nominated for Cause/Affect's Peoples Choice Award

Taken from Cause Affect:

"Repressed IV: May Day was a self-initiated exhibition on workers’ rights that Mended Arrow co-curated and opened on May Day or International Workers’ Day. The promotional materials for the exhibition included a silk-screened poster that paid homage to the appalachian coal miner’s Union or “Red Necks”; whom wore red bandanas as a form of solidarity."

Please vote for me: here

Inspiration, Cool Stuff, Etc no. 3

Parody by Lunchbreath on how to green wash your business.

Dropping Knowledge invites you to ask and answer questions covering social themes of global significance. Some of these questions are coupled with appropriate images and turned into digital postcards.

Store+ is a campaign to benefit the Red Cross by Leo Burnett.

Global Warming ad to bring awareness.

Love is a video documenting the making of a stenciled pieced entitled, love.

Deadline is a post-it note stop motion animation.

Food, Inc trailer.