Embracing Kingian Principles to Promote Nonviolence
"Upper Albany Nonviolence Mural" by Design Global Change
This mural was painted on Albany Ave. in the North End of Hartford, Connecticut in November 2010. It was a Design Global Change project, an organization founded by Professor Natacha Poggio of Hartford Art School that is a creative think-tank that uses design to develop projects that bring positive change to communities around the world.
The mural was inspired by the Kingian Principles of Nonviolence promoted by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., with special attention to principle #2: “The beloved community is the frame work of the future.” The painting was created in collaboration with the Connecticut Center for Nonviolence, Hartford clergy and Community Peacebuilders.
Kingian Principles of Nonviolence
- Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.
- Nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding
- Nonviolence seeks to defeat injustices, not people.
- Nonviolence holds that suffering for a cause can educate and transform.
- Nonviolence chooses love instead of hate.
- Nonviolence holds that the universe is on the side of justice and that right will prevail.
How can you help promote nonviolence?
Sources:
http://designglobalchange.virb.com/
http://bit.ly/zR9t50
WANTED: Jack of all trades (aka Graphic Artist)
This ad is pretty standard in terms of the laundry list of skills required of a graphic artist these days. Design skills, plus technical skills—and being well versed in all the software and hardware that goes with them—is expected. Writing and editing skills are often on the wishlist too. So where does a young graphic designer begin figuring out their worth?
Read More’Tis the Season for Giving Back
Graphic design with social responsibility goes on all year round, but the holiday season shines an even brighter light on how graphic designers are giving back. Following are just a few examples:
Censorship: a sign of the “Times?”
This week Time magazine reported that last week’s story “The Two Faces of Anxiety” elicited the most mail. Readers wanted to “Why is anxiety the most pressing issue in the U.S. while the Egyptian revolution gets front page treatment internationally?”
Time covers, Dec. 5, 2011 | Vol. 178 No. 22
Time said that they are glad to be held to high expectations. Some readers were not so happy and called the cover treatment censorship.
David Airey posted almost a dozen examples of different magazine covers printed over the past several years on his blog. His readers debated the ethics of the issue including the practice of using selective data to push an agenda.
The covers were also hotly debated on Reddit, reaching close to1800 comments with more than one of them saying that the practice is “terrifying.”
Business Insider stated that while there is nothing new about magazines using different covers to drive sales, (one reader posted that this is done about 80% of the time) the bigger question is why the covers for the U.S. market differ so much from the rest of the world.
What do you think? Is it censorship, or merely Times’ right to serve their markets what they think will drive sales? Or is it merely a reflection of the insulated world in which Americans live?
Sources:
Time, December 12, 2011
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601111205,00.html
http://www.davidairey.com/time-magazine-covers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CreativeDesign+%28Creative+Design%29
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/mp5cz/time_magazine_cover_depending_on_country/?limit=500
http://www.businessinsider.com/these-time-magazine-covers-explain-why-americans-know-nothing-about-the-world-2011-11
Un-hate, or unethical?
Photoshopped image from Benetton "Unhate" ad campaign shows Pope kissing sheikh of the Al-Azhar Mosque
Benetton’s recent release of the “Unhate” ad campaign has caused a firestorm of controversy. The goal of their campaign is a worthy one—to contribute to a new culture of tolerance and to combat hatred. The UNHATE Campaign is the first in a series of initiatives involving community.
Read MoreWhat the heck is “good design” any way?
If you decide to look up “good” in an online dictionary the first listing that comes up shows 55 different definitions. Morally excellent, righteous, high-quality, well-behaved, kind, educated, refined, healthy, cheerful, skillfully done, and financially sound are just a few.
When looking at how the word “good” is used in graphic design a wide variety of interpretations also arise.
Read MoreWhen crowdsourcing works
I live in Brasília, Brazil - Inside Out Project
The term crowdsourcing has come to mean poor quality and diminished (or complete lack of) compensation and quality in the world of graphic design. It has come to symbolize the movement in graphic design of “how low can you go?”
Read MoreCommunication that’s as clear as mud
Have you ever wondered why legalese is so hard to understand? Whether it’s a government form, a license agreement, or some other type of contract, the end user is often confronted with unintuitive, unclear, and confusing information.
Does John Williams have no empathy?
Image from RockPaperInk blog post "Love Thy Logo"
The recent Logo Garden scandal has many graphic designers up in arms. From the Action Alert sent by AIGA to warn graphic designers about possible theft and plagiarism of their logos, to the blog post “Love Thy Logo” on RockPaperInk by Bill Gardner, it is clear many are appalled.
Read MoreCYA (or how to ethically conduct business)
One of the listings for the dictionary definition of ethics is “the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group.” Establishing the rules of conduct in graphic design starts with the contract.
Read MoreGet the Guide
Ethics: A Graphic Designer's Field Guide is a 60 page handbook that looks at the ethical issues graphic designers face along with case studies. Each of the three sections has questions for discussion and a list of relevant resources. Learn more.
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