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They Structure How We See

"[We] must begin to see our houses, buildings, farms, businesses, energy technologies, transportation, landscapes, and communities in much the same way that we regard classrooms.  In fact, they instruct us in more fundamental ways because they structure what we see, how we move, what we eat, our sense of time and space, how we relate to each other, our sense of security, and how we experience the particular places in which we live."

David Orr
The Nature of Design, quoted in "The Daily Asterisk" (Feb. 18, 2010)


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Osocio: social advertising and non-profit campaigns

I'm a big fan of non-profit design. I've been daydreaming since my college days about one permutation or another of my plan to start a non-profit design firm or focus a freelance career around non-profits. I continue to work on this idea, and I think it's still a real option for the future (after Janel is done with her dissertation, assuming we have to move somewhere when she gets a job offer). And, of course, the diversity of non-profits and projects is my favorite part of working where I currently work. So I was pleased to stumble on a design blog that focuses on exactly the kind of design that interests me most. Osocio "...is dedicated to social advertising and non-profit campaigns...the place where marketing and activism collide." The images above are from a few campaigns that caught my eye:

  1. Diversity of Species in the Rainforest: "The destruction of the rainforest comes in many shapes. And there are all kinds of animal and plant species which suffer as a result. Every hour three different types of animal and plant life are made extinct."
  2. Second hand smoke campaign: an "oversized arm to let you see that smoking not only harms yourself."
  3. Brisbane Advertising and Design Charity Challenge: "“Despite what many think, our industry has a big heart..."

(Originally posted on larynandjanel.com with alternate example images).


First Things First Manifesto

I stumbled across this manifesto again today and thought I'd post it up here. It came out shortly after I was out of school, in 1999. It rang true then, it rings true now. This is an updated manifesto, based on Ken Garland's 1964 First Things First manifesto and published in "Adbusters (Canada), Emigre (Issue 51) [1] and AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (United States), Eye magazine no. 33 vol. 8, Autumn 1999 and Blueprint (Britain) and Items (Netherlands)." (Wikipedia).

Here's the updated text:


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