Projects tagged "Print & Design"

In Drones We Trust
Practitioner:
Joseph DeLappe
Date:
Nov 13 2014
In Drones We Trust, 2014 - Joseph DeLappe Crowd Sourced, Participatory Rubber Stamp Currency Intervention FOR FULL PROJECT DOCUMENTATION VISIT: http://indroneswetrust.tumblr.com/
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Slammed in the Butt by My Hugo Award Nomination
Practitioner:
Chuck Tingle
Date:
May 5 2016
Chuck Tingle is the Internet's most beloved author of bizarre niche erotica, perhaps best known for his masterwork Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt. The Hugo Awards are a formerly prestigious sci-fi honor, hijacked in recent years by racist neoreactionaries and Gamergaters aiming to Make Science Fiction Not Diverse Again.
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Secret Anti-Abuse Message That Only Kids Can See
Practitioner:
Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk Foundation, or ANAR
Date:
May 4 2013
Spanish organization the ANAR Foundation (Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk) releases a campaign that takes advantage of the process of lenticular printing to send an offer of help to abused children without alerting their abusers, even if they’re walking together. Lenticular printing is a process that allows for different photos to be seen depending on the angle the image is viewed from.
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NYC Mock Posters Detail Police Terror Drills, Nuclear Threats
Practitioner:
Greywater
Date:
May 12 2013
In an effort to prepare against chemical, biological and radiological attacks in the New York subway, the New York Police Department has announced plans to release harmless gases into the city’s streets and subway stations to better understand the pathways of airborne contaminants. Officials will use more than 200 sensors, set up throughout all five boroughs, to track these benign gases as they disperse.
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MTA 'See Something, Say Something' Posters Get #Resist Makeover
Practitioner:
Anonymous
Date:
Mar 9 2017
If you scanned the public service announcements in your subway car this morning—and happened to be adequately caffeinated—you might have noticed something slightly off. There's Melissa C., of small-time "See Something, Say Something" fame, with her gold hoops and salmon-pink hoodie. She's smiling next to the familiar MTA logo, but her message isn't just about reporting a suspicious bag on the platform and feeling heroic.
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Queer Crisis (4.25.2014)
Practitioner:
Queer Crisis Flash Collective
Date:
Jun 24 2014
An intervention created by the April 25 2015 Queer Crisis Collective organized by the Helix Queer Performance Network (HQPN), and part of an ongoing queer resistance project mentored by Avram Finkelstein. Over a period of 2 weekends, 8 artists met at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics to design a creative intervention during Pride month in NYC.
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Design4Peace
Practitioner:
Leslie Dwyer
Date:
Mar 8 2014
Design4Peace is a collection of political posters created by Leslie Dwyer. Images speak to issues of war and peace, prisons, solidarity and movement, immigration, economy and class, violence against women, ecology, agriculture, racism, and gender. Leslie works with movement and educational organizations, such as Veterans for Peace and Teaching for Change to support their work visually.
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This Is Not Your Body
Practitioner:
This Is Not Your Body
Date:
Nov 25 2014
Two reflective stickers in a bathroom stall. When you sit down you can see your face in the bottom one. When you stand you can see your face in the top one, your groin in the bottom one. The top one says "Public", the bottom one says "Private". Or maybe the top one says "Private", and the bottom one says "Public". Which one is correct?
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Vangardist HIV+ Magazine
Practitioner:
Vangardist
Date:
May 4 2015
HIV is still among the top 10 leading causes of death in the world, ranking sixth with around 1.5 million deaths each year. Around 35 million people are currently infected with HIV, and cases are worryingly on the rise—it is far from old news. Determined to change this, a magazine has embarked on a bold new campaign in which 3,000 copies will be printed using ink mixed with HIV-infected blood.
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Tree Felling in Bialowieza Forest
Practitioner:
Greenpeace
Date:
Aug 11 2010
Greenpeace advocates displayed a banner outside of the Ministry of the Environment in Warsaw. The banner reads "I love primeval forests" to protest against tree felling in Bialowieza Forest. Protesters dressed as construction workers wearing hard hats and scaling the Ministry of the Environment building on harnesses.
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The Bristol Cable: A community-run newspaper holding power to account
Practitioner:
The Bristol Cable
Date:
May 1 2016
Taking back the media. The Bristol Cable is a media co-operative shaking up local news with hard-hitting investigative journalism. “In every single pub up and down the country people will be talking about how crap the media is,” says Alon Aviram, co-founder of The Bristol Cable, “but there aren’t many conversations around what the alternatives are and how we can remodel it.”
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Benetton 'Unhate' Campaign Ads: White House Issues Statement on Obama Kiss
Practitioner:
United Colors of Benetton
Date:
Nov 17 2011
It seems a lot of powerful people hate Benetton's new 'Unhate' Campaign ads. The recently unveiled images show world leaders like the Pope and U.S. President Barack Obama kissing their perceived enemies. On Thursday, the White House issued a statement condemning Benetton for its provocative campaign.
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Dove Real Beauty Campaign
Practitioner:
Dove
Date:
Apr 6 2014
The Photoshop action — a downloadable file that applies an action with a single click — is aimed at art directors who may be creating such ads. The action, which was disseminated on Reddit and other places where Dove thought such art directors might visit, promised to add a skin glow effect, but actually reverted the image to its original state.
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Shake Girl, The Graphic Novel
Practitioner:
Adam Johnson and Tom Kealey, Stanford students
Date:
Dec 2 2008
Shake Girl is a massive collaborative effort between fifteen students and two instructors over the course of one quarter (Winter 2008). These students comprise the first edition of the Stanford Graphic Novel Project -- a group dedicated to acheiving this monumental task on an annual basis.
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Corrected Billboard Defends Transparency at Guantanamo Bay
Practitioner:
California Department of Corrections
Date:
Mar 24 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE San Francisco, California Corrected Billboard Defends Transparency at Guantanamo Bay The California Department of Corrections (CDC) has unveiled a new billboard campaign to assist the U.S. Navy with transparency at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
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#ShoutingBack with Business Cards
Practitioner:
Lila Urda, Ranim Hadid, Madeleine Dalkie, Diana Al-Mahmood
Date:
Apr 18 2014
The group of students from NYU took to the streets of Manhattan to shout back against sexual harassment and bring awareness to the Everyday Sexism project. Armed with business cards that said "#shoutingback" on one side, and "Real men don't catcall" on the other side, the group waited for men to yell at the women while they walked down the street.
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Stop Telling Women to Smile
Practitioner:
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Date:
Mar 1 2013
This project is fighting back against street harassment. The core issues they touch on are demanding a woman's attention, speaking to women in certain types of ways, and asking a woman to smile. "This project is for those who do feel offended by unwelcome aggressive treatment from men"
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Dignidad Rebelde
Practitioner:
Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza
Date:
May 12 2012
Oakland-based artist-activists Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza teamed up to form Dignidad Rebelde, a graphic arts collaboration working for social change.  They believe that art can be an empowering reflection of community struggles, dreams and visions, and  following principles of Xicanisma and Zapatismo, create work that translates people’s stories
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The Art of Heroin Bags
Practitioner:
VICE
Date:
Mar 28 2012
Heroin sold in the northeast, specifically in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey tends to come in little glassine baggies. The art comes from the individual and unique "stamp" on said baggie sold to a user.
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Smithsonian Collection of "Occupy Wall Street" Posters on View at Wesleyan
Practitioner:
Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Wesleyan University's Davison Art Center
Date:
Apr 5 2013
After collecting street art and memorabilia from "Occupy Wall Street" since the fall of 2011, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History has lent its collection of Occupy Wall Street posters to Wesleyan's Davison Art Center. The posters will make up an exhibition entitled “Artists Take Action: Protest Posters Today,” which is on display in the University's gallery from April 5 to May 26.
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UK Brandalism Campaign
Practitioner:
Various Artists
Date:
May 12 2014
From Glasgow to Brighton the streets of the UK looked a little different the morning of Monday 5/12/14. In 10 cities around the UK guerrilla install crews have been swapping over 300 ads with art works, creating the largest advertising takeover in world history.
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Piano Stairs - A New Reason for Choosing Staircases
Practitioner:
Wolkswagen
Date:
Feb 11 2013
“Piano Stairs” is an interactive playful musical stairway installation created into the Odenplan underground station of Stockholm to make people use stairs more often than elevator. The project was part of a Wolkswagen initiative called “The fun theory” whose main objective and mission is to “change people’s behaviour for the better by making it fun to do.”
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The Panama Papers
Practitioner:
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Date:
Apr 3 2016
A giant leak of more than 11.5 million financial and legal records exposes a system that enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing, hidden by secretive offshore companies.
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Smog Ring - Pollution Transformed into Art
Practitioner:
Daan Roosegaarde
Date:
Jan 1 2014
“A Foreigner Makes Beijing’s Smog into Rings” has become a tittle used by a multitude of popular public accounts on Wechat, the most commonly used chatting app in China, which makes more and more Chinese netizens know the story of Daan Roosegaarde, a Dutch artist and “social designer”, who has been making effort to combine the energy saving technology with visually enjoyable art.
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What Kind of Man are You?
Practitioner:
aleXsandro Palombo
Date:
Mar 7 2014
The series "No Violence Against Women" depicts famous cartoon couples transformed into victims of abuse. The women are left bloodied and with black eyes with the slogan "What Kind of Man are You?" above. The images are a commentary on domestic violence and were released in honor of International Women's Day
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