Nonprofits, do you want a Backpacker Intern?
By Marc van Gurp on 21 January 2014Read moreThis is the opportunity for nonprofits to get a free expert in home. The expert is Mark van der Heijden, creative copywriter from Amsterdam. He travels around the world as ‘The Backpacker Intern’. Helping out agencies, brands and charities....
0Sochi: where no snow falls in winter
By Marc van Gurp on 19 January 2014Read moreSince the announcement of the location of the next Winter Olympics photographer Rob Hornstra and writer Arnold van Bruggen have worked on The Sochi Project. They have visited the area many times and parts of the project have now been...
No creative has been paid to make this ad #coglioneNo
By Marc van Gurp on 13 January 2014Read moreA plumber or a gardener don’t work for free. A designer is too often asked to do so. It’s what Osocio blogger Noah Scalin wrote about in his Design Activists Handbook. The three funny videos in this post are...
Canada’s designers rebel against government-developed national logos
By Tom Megginson on 13 December 2013Read moreWhen Canadian public broadcaster CBC released the logos being considered by the Government of Canada for the country’s upcoming sesquicentennial, people were quick to react. Nobody was quite as vocal as Canadian designer Ibraheem Youssef, who now works as...
Amazing Posters: A Home For Everyone
By Marc van Gurp on 12 December 2013Read moreThe quality of the work submitted for the poster for tomorrow project is getting better and better. The most recent project A Home for Everyone is stunning. The goal of the poster for tomorrow project is to make posters...
Free Design for Non-Profits
By Adam Valvasori on 11 December 2013Read moreWebby award-winning 99designs is giving away free ‘design contests’ each month to a number of certified non-profit organisations around the world. For those unfamiliar with this model, it’s a process whereby designers submit competing designs in response to a...
3 Decades of Aids Awareness Campaigns #WorldAIDSDay
By Marc van Gurp on 1 December 2013Read moreI was wondering if there is an evolution in style and message in AIDS campaigning. So I started a Pinterest board with work containing print, outdoor and ambient campaigns. From all over the world. The question is too complicated...
Great book about what it is like to be dyslexic
By Marc van Gurp on 9 November 2013Read morePeople all over the world struggle with reading for a variety of reasons, like dyslexia, lack of education and an unfamiliar language. I wrote before how a designer came with a solution for those who suffer from dyslexia. It...
Hunting jackets turned into animals under threat
By Marc van Gurp on 14 October 2013Read more‘Embodying ethics : Endangered’ is an unique project from Rohan Chhabra. The project was exhibited at the 2013 London Design Festival. After graduation Rohan worked as a Product Designer with sportswear label Nike for 2 years. Since 2013, Rohan...
Artist gives shape to his inner demons #mentalhealthweek
By Tom Megginson on 10 October 2013Read moreIt’s Mental Health Awareness Week in several countries, so it seemed like the right time to share this series of illustrations by Toby Allen, titled “Real Monsters”: Although it could be misconstrued as literally demonizing people with mental illness,...