While I’ve been fortunate to have had a number of opportunities to lend my design services to the fight against Type 1 Diabetes, it’s rare that I get a venue to use my words in that effort. However, I was recently presented with just such an opportunity. Lisa and I are honored to be featured… Read more »
Posts Tagged: design for advocacy
Pacific Garbage Patch
Shortly after graduating from college, I moved across the country to Catalina Island, twenty-six miles off the coast of Los Angeles, for a job as an instructor at the Catalina Island Marine Institute. During that time (early 90’s), I can remember learning a bit about the large-scale effects of ocean currents on marine debris. Several… Read more »
Typography fun for a cause: Part III
Support Stem Cell Research Bumper Sticker Available as a bumper sticker (10″ x 3″) or a T-shirt. As the title of this blog entry suggests, I find type design to be fun. This particular use of typography might also be the most important design I’ve ever created. A personal connection Stem cell research has the… Read more »
Typography fun for a cause: Part II
Above:Here’s the front of our fundraising postcard for our participation in this year’s Tour de Cure. (Hey, did you know they typically don’t remove the “old organs” when you receive an organ transplant? And did you know that plural of pancreas is pancreata?) Background Since 2000, Lisa and I have been cycling in the American… Read more »
Information design for advocacy
Fellow Graphic Alliance member John Emerson recently shared a wonderful free resource, a PDF booklet entitled Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design. The manual is intended to introduce advocacy organizations to basic principles and techniques of information design. It provides some excellent examples of designs from groups around the world in a… Read more »
