November, 2007
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Sixth Street Beautification
Sixth Street Beautification Banners are a part of Gavin Newsom’s “clean and green effort” in San Francisco and part of the Sixth Street Area Redevelopment beautification. Sixth Street has long been a blight in San Francisco and the city is trying to clean up the area by establishing responsible managed care facilities for the homeless instead of flop houses. The city is encouraging a sense of community by improving parks, funding façade improvements for many buildings, and recently completed installing many vintage light polls and trees along the Sixth Street corridor. These banners were created to call attention to the program, instill a sense of pride and to help display a potential regarding the beauty of the area around Sixth Street.
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this is not grass
During the Summer of 2006, a small group of Project M designers drove from the rural coast of Maine to the urban center of East Baltimore with one goal… to make a positive and significant impact on a blighted community.
The social and political machines had been in motion long before they stepped into town and the scale of the problems were staggering.
One of the symbols of this hope was a new field of grass. What once was a haven for drug dealers and vandals, was now the pride and joy of a community. This green space transformed vacant lots and back alleys into a living part of the neighborhood and lifted the spirit of the community.
Most people take things like yards, parks, and gardens for granted, but the social and psychological impact of green space is very real. With your help, the designers of Project M 2006 hope to fund the creation of another green space in East Baltimore.
This is not grass, this is hope.
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Connect, Discover, Respond
A worldwide quest for solutions to end environmental degradation and the transition to a hydrogen economy. This MFA thesis in Graphic Design began with a personal belief that transcended into a culmination of opportunity, problem-solving, and innovative thinking, all meant to create a positive impact on society. It involved the tackling of complex issues where original research and professional practices aligned through a holistic view of energy and our environment.
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Give Something Back Stationery System
This non-profit foundation provides life-changing educational opportunities for children in need worldwide. The logo’s arrows create a cycle of giving to inspire global change and encourage international understanding. The foundation’s innovative approach is reflected in the use of different symbols on each stationery element:
- the profile on the letterhead depicts a perceptive young mind,
- the globe on the envelope evokes international correspondence,
- the arrow on the mailing label suggests giving back,
- the heart on the note card expresses donor appreciation, and
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Design is Problem Solving, Giving is Solving Problems Card
In 2006, as a holiday card for our valued clients and vendors, NeigerDesignInc created a booklet sharing our personal passions for worthy causes. As designers we are problem solvers and through our involvement and giving to various organizations in our community we are solving problems. We hoped that in the season of giving, our clients and vendors would share in our passions and pass on a gift of a donation to one of our favorite organizations in honor of someone they know.
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Instant Karma
”Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur,” calls attention to the urgent situation where over 300,000 have died and over 2 million more are at risk. The “Instant Karma” project combines the power of John Lennon’s music with Amnesty’s human rights message to bring together more than 50 artists (Green Day, R.E.M., U2, Jack Johnson, etc.) to inspire the next generation of activists. Citizen helped develop global campaign including strategy, graphic identity, advertisements and enlisting artists, sponsors and partners.
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Destinies
”Mutanabbi Street Starts Here” was a call to respond to the bombing of the soul of the Baghdad literary and intellectual community in poetry and print. The sales of the broadsides benefit Doctors Without Borders in Iraq.
The opportunity to make some small difference in the lives of the most affected by this horrific war spoke directly to the mission of Moving Parts Press, where the political and personal meet and mingle in book form. I intended to make a dirtier, grittier and bloodier print, the view from the ground, but somehow it came out quite beautiful from the air.
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Born Suspect
As part of its U.S. Domestic Human Rights Program, Amnesty International launched the Born Suspect Campaign against the Patriot Act of 2003. This act allows U.S. law enforcement officials to use common physical characteristics–such as skin color, hair type and dress style–as predictors of criminal acts. The Born Suspect Campaign targets law officials and the general public to speak out against such violations of racial profiling to our U.S. Senators.
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Calfee School Guide
The Calfee School Guide is an in-school program that helps middle school students and their guardians navigate the open enrollment process in the San Francisco School District. Each high school in the district has a different academic emphasis and a different enrollment process.
The site was directed mainly at middle school students and was intended to let them explore the idea of making choices. From music to future careers, the viewer is encouraged to think about how choices impact their lives and why the choice of high school is an important first step.
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volume founders sign on as cause/affect judges
We are delighted to announce that the co-founders of award-winning design Volume Inc, Adam Brodsley and Eric Heiman, have agreed to judge cause/affect.
Adam Brodsley, Volume (above left)
While pasting up mechanicals at Islands magazine in Santa Barbara (and visiting all the publication-featured islets, atolls and archipelagos he could), Adam Brodsley decided the only way to afford such excursions was learning the lucrative art of graphic design. After clearing the salt water from his ears, Brodsley attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and eventually (in between fondue binges in the Swiss Alps and Parisian museum-hopping) rose to become the lowest (but tallest, at 6’4”) man on the totem pole at April Greiman’s studio, where he developed an appreciation for Charlie Parker’s music. He eventually headed north to San Francisco’s Mauk Design, where he mastered the art of large-scale exhibit design. Never one to be pigeonholed, though, Brodsley founded the multidisciplinary, award-winning firm Volume Inc. (with Eric Heiman) at the dawn of the new millennium’s first recession—and lived happily every after.Eric Heiman, Volume (above right)
Starting in the hunter-filled woods of rural Pennsylvania, Eric Heiman embarked on a journey through the Carnegie Mellon architecture program, late nights of DJ spinning, record store employment and week-long vows of silence in the mountains of Maui that eventually led him to design school in the Bay Area. At the dawn of the new millennium he founded Volume (www.volumesf.com) with Adam Brodsley. Volume’s work has been extensively exhibited, honored and published around the world, and Heiman‘s writing on design has been published in Emigre, Letterspace and the AIGA’s online journal, Voice. Heiman is also a Professor of Design at the California College of the Arts and was awarded the college-wide Excellence in Teaching award in 2003. -
Massive Change co-author to judge
We are delighted to announce that Jennifer Leonard has agreed to be a judge for the cause/affect competition. Jennifer is a design researcher and writer at IDEO, in Palo Alto, California. Her craft is content creation; her art is “the interview” and her favorite tools include fine-tipped pens, hard-bound journals, her digital camera, her Sennheiser mic, a Marantz solid state recorder and Final Cut Pro. Prior to IDEO, Jennifer co-authored Massive Change, a book about the future of global design, and worked for several years as a print journalist, radio broadcaster and design critic. Her pieces have been published in Azure, Nylon, Saturday Night, Details, Form, Damn and Shift. She has spoken at design conferences around the world – Designmai (Berlin), World Design Congress (Copenhagen), Utrecht Manifest (Utrecht), IdcN (Nagoya), Luminous Green (Brussels) – and is a graduate of the inaugural year of the Institute without Boundaries, a design think-tank that once-upon-a-time lived inside the Bruce Mau Design studio in Toronto.
