Voces Con Futura / Future Voices is a new project from Spain. Now it is the time for the Spanish revolution after the revolution in North-Africa and the Middle-East according to the people behind the project.
The mission is to create and collect the highest possible number of anonymous posters and banners to (visually) add up to this social change in Spain.
Dear designers, creators, illustrators, art directors and my admired visual artists in general: this is a selfless initiative to morally and aesthetically support the #europeanrevolution #europeriseup #DRY #democraciarealya #takethesquare #worldcamp #spanishrevolution #greekrevolution #italianrevolution #frenchrevolution etc. movement. We welcome you to participate, without trying to self-promote.
The mission is to create and collect the highest possible number of anonymous posters and banners to (visually) add up to this social change.
The aim is to upload them on this blog, so everybody can freely download and print the message that is the most liked, the most needed or the ones that motivate them the most. We just want the noise to become more unbearably beautiful.
Our desire? To receive slogans that aren’t disrespectful. Mainly because if we are disrespectful then our meaning is lost, and nothing is better than being elegant and smart in order to move forward. But of course, feel free to express yourself.
The purpose? People printing and filling with this images their small piece of the world. Get out of the web and invade the streets. Promoting change. Make the design, once and for all, be socially committed.
These plastic moulded figurines are made by Dorothy, a design collective from the UK.
It is entitled ‘Casualties of War’. It is based on two articles in the Colorado Springs Gazettea. The articles focused on a single battalion based at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, who since returning from duty in Iraq had been involved in brawls, beatings, rapes, drunk driving, drug deals, domestic violence, shootings, stabbings, kidnapping and suicides.
War is more than victims on the battlefield. And wounds aren’t always physical.
A great idea from designer Graphic Patrick. It started with doing research about mental health and he came across a list of mental disorders. He took a few and started designing each in a minimal style.
It is like making a logo for a mental health help organization but without communicating the sender.
We post very often campaigns visualizing mental disorders, mostly in the storytelling format. Good to see an attempt which return it to the essential.
The designs Patrick made are very simplistic and he jailed himself into the poster format. But the idea is very interesting.
I’m very curious if something like this is done before. Know any? Let us know in the comments.
Above OCD (Obsessive-compulsive disorder). After the break Dissociative identity disorder.
See all Patrick attempts here.
I did three posts already with artwork for Japan. And there is a lot more. I will do a final post this weekend with work I found in my mailbox.
In this post a download to a screensaver, nicely made. Good cause. Download and donate here.
The screensaver is made by BooneOakley & Studiobanks.
The idea with a seismograph is not new. We saw it already here. And in this video from Deutschland Hilft (Germany is helping)
What amazes me is the enormous amount of artwork made after the Japan disaster. I love it and good to see that so many people do care about the people in Japan.
But where was that same inspiration after the eartquake in Haiti or the 2004 tsunami.
Do we have a selective inspiration?
Posted by Marc | 31-03-2011 22:14 | Category:
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... I want to climb the Mont Ventoux by racing bike.
This project from artist Candy Chang started with an abandoned house in New Orleans in her neighborhood. She transformed it in a giant chalkboard where residents can write on the wall and remember what is important to them.
Within a day the chalkboard was full of responses. Photo strip here.
Once the wall is filled, Candy wash the board with water and start with a clean slate again. All responses are documented and some will be included in a book.
Now Candy Chang get many requests from people who’d like to install it in their city.
More about the project here.
I asked the same question on Twitter:
David Venn: “I want to start my own nonprofit organization or social movement.”
Esther van der Wal: “Before I die I want to have loved, traveled and left a positive mark on the world.”
Makes me curious: What do you want to do before you die? Tell us in the comments.
Yesterday I posted the Help Japan poster from agency Wieden+Kennedy. Here are three new variations on the same Japan earthquake and tsunami theme.
More work is welcome, let us know.
From Wok & Noodles “Donations to the International Committee of the Red Cross: www.icrc.org."
Advertising Agency: BBDO, Ecuador; Creative Director: Guillermo Valverde; Art Director: Cristian Cedeño; Copywriter: Jacinto Alvear; source Ads of the World.
Hu2 design made a nice collection of stickers which reminds us every day about our ecological footprint when using electricity.
The stickers aren’t cheap but you only need one or two.
Video from Advertisers Without Borders (AWB), founded by William Caro (Argentina) in 2002.
The campaign goal is to add new advertising professionals and engage them as volunteers to donate at least a year campaign for a social cause that improves the quality of life of the community.
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