Going through some older bookmarks, I re-discovered this little gem created by Ben Mautner of Wider Angle: Population One: One Pixel is One Person While I’m ordinarily not a fan of web pages requiring horizontal scrolling, I found this to be a terrific application for an otherwise frustrating task. In fact, in this case, I… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Design for Social Causes
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 »
Peace button
I recently had the opportunity to design a button for the Sacred Heart Peace Community in Camden, New Jersey — the poorest city in the US, twice declared “America’s Most Dangerous City” (2004, 2005, Morgan Quitno Corp.), and also the city where I was born. The Sacred Heart Peace Community is a volunteer group that… 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 »
Green Paper Guide
For those looking to use environmentally-responsible paper for their projects, the number of vendors and product lines has grown considerably in the last two years. To help make sense of this expanding list of choices and find just the right paper for your needs, Design Can Change offers a terrific resource, a handy guide to… Read more »
