Voting has started! Please select your favorite entrant from the list below. You only have one vote, so use it wisely! Click on the title of the project to find out more information about that piece. A proportion of any proceeds from the competition will be donated to a local non-profit organization of the winner’s choosing. It’s a win-win!
R3 (Rethink/Reimagine/Redesign) is a collaborative effort by the graphic design students at the Academy of art University and John Roberts Printing to promote sustainable design. The R3 approach focuses not only on redesigning better things, but on better experiences as well. This latest collection of R3 projects demonstrates each student’s careful consideration, unique abilities, innovative [...]
Office collaborated with 826 Valencia, a nonprofit tutoring center for youth, to reinvigorate its pirate supply storefront. We developed the store’s new identity, and conceptualized and designed nearly 50 new products. Reflecting the store’s wildly imaginative experience, the products and identity represent 826’s mission to support creative expression. All proceeds directly benefit 826 Valencia’s writing [...]
The Challenge: Design 20,000 square feet of exhibition space in Renzo Piano’s new museum, have it blend seamlessly into the building and the park setting and then engage, educate and inspire a global audience. We co-opted the scientific specimen box as a method of organizing content with a contemporary spin, allowing for the different kinds [...]
Repressed IV: May Day was a self-initiated exhibition on workers’ rights that Mended Arrow co-curated and opened on May Day or International Workers’ Day. The promotional materials for the exhibition included a silk-screened poster that paid homage to the appalachian coal miner’s Union or “Red Necks”; whom wore red bandanas as a form of solidarity. [...]
FINE Share is made to be lost and found. We created a series of special envelopes, each with a pre-addressed, stamped postcard and a few dollars inside. Each envelope says “for you” on the back, and each postcard asks what was done with the unexpected gift. We then gave these envelopes to our FINE friends [...]
Set in home, work, outdoor and commuting environments, this Flash driven website engages and educates the user in a way that takes the fear and anxiety out of earth quake preparedness. QuakeQuiz.org is a graphically engaging quiz that provides valuable tips on what to do the moment you realize an earthquake is in progress and [...]
Hybrid designed educational materials (distributed to every sophomore classroom in California) to launch a public awareness campaign on distracted teenage driving. For all elements, we had to find a voice that didn’t sound like adults trying to talk to kids, or even worse, adults trying to talk like kids. Each piece in the campaign ends [...]
The designer toy, Scapegoats, is a visual representation of a problem ingrained in our society, which slowly poisons our views of each other. the toys promote social awareness by representing the issue in a lighthearted way, thus illustrating that anyone can be trapped by a stereotyped role. Anyone can be blamed. Scapegoat Billy uses his [...]
Now in its 51st year, the San Francisco International Film Festival is the longest running film festival in the Americas. Factor Design was engaged by the San Francisco Film Society to create the SFIFF 2008 identity. The design challenge was to celebrate the theme of diversity while visually uniting the inherently disparate subject matter and [...]
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