Academy

Background, theory, interviews and cases on non-profit advertising and marketing for social causes.

What is Social Design?
By Kate Andrews on 13 June 2008
It has been some time coming but it is here, a comprehensive exploration into what is ‘Social Design’. This...
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Design Conferences = Overblown and Conceptually Thin
By Kate Andrews on 18 April 2008
UK design critic Rick Poynor makes a socially conscious critique of Design Conferences (for Creative Review) this month. This...
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Visualizing Information for Advocacy
By Marc van Gurp on 17 February 2008
Advocacy organizations tend to collect a lot of information. They often package this information into detailed written reports. While...
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Conceptual Design: Building a Social Conscience.
By Kate Andrews on 17 February 2008
Is there a relationship between the conceptual thinking behind Marcel Duchamp’s 1917 urinal and contemporary design practice? Design writer...
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Small things can also make a better world
By Marc van Gurp on 26 January 2008
Osocio is a website about visual communication. But so now and then we will publish background articles about social...
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