The Wrinkles of the City - La Havana

The Wrinkles of the City – one of a few photographic mural projects by a French photographer JR (in collaboration with an American artist José Parlá), in Havana.

Hans Rosling on TED

Hans Rosling – global health professor from Sweden – and his amazing data presentation at one of TED talks.
Infographics visualised with Gapminder

pentagram's new posters

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime posters

'Harry Pearce and Jason Ching have designed a series of posters for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime that highlight the relative merits of drug treatment and rehabilitation around the world. The posters are a training tool specifically aimed at the Russian police, whose country has a particularly poor track record in drug treatment. The posters had to be eye-catching, easy to absorb and not reliant on language. The typographic solution built a simple world map from internationally recognised country abbreviation codes (GB, US, RU, etc). Eight variants were then designed, using colour coding and icons to provide comparative statistics around drug abuse, the incidence of HIV, Methadone and opioid maintenance therapies, and needle and syringe programmes.' (cursive mine)

Save the Arts

David Shrigley's animation on why we need to Save the Arts

RSA

RSA (Royal Society for encouragement of Arts) – various programmes, events, grants, etc.
RSAnimate: 21st century enlightment:

AIDS commercials

nice piece of french toilet graffiti!
Mom said I could:

2006 ones:
straight...

...and different

DESIGN 21: UNESCO poster competition

Design 21 UNESCO Competition: Create the poster for 2010, International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures; a competition to promote better communication and understanding between all peoples and cultures. DEADLINE: 9 March 2010 6pm

DESIGN BRIEF

Design a poster that celebrates “2010, International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures".

Entries are limited to text and images only.

Designers have complete creative liberty, and may freely use in their design the title of the Year ("2010, International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures") in any of the following six languages that they are most comfortable using: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic.

Entrants are free to play with the title in more than one language, but should not use a language they do not write fluently (for example, Chinese, Arabic, Russian).

Please verify the proper spelling of the full title of the Year as shown here.

NOTE THE FOLLOWING STIPULATIONS:
Incorporating the title of the Year in your poster design is optional, not mandatory.

Entrants must keep in mind the international nature of UNESCO and the celebration of the Year and avoid any reference to a particular country, region, culture or religion.

The final printed poster will be A1-sized (59.4 x 84.1 cm or 23.4 × 33.1 in). Although the online entry provisions do not allow for the full A1 dimensions, your entry must include at least one image showing the entire poster design scaled to A1 proportions. Note the “Entry Provisions” section outlined further down the page.

You must not include any logos on your design but instead use a placeholder. The final printed posters will include the UNESCO/UN logos + the official Logo of "2010, International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures". To accommodate these in the poster design, entrants must save a place in their design where the official logos would be positioned in the event that your design is selected as one of the 50 to be showcased. The placeholder should be scaled to 9cm x 9cm relative to an A1 poster, and be positioned in the upper left hand corner of your poster. Click here to download the placeholder example. Since screen resolutions are different across computers, if the placeholder we have supplied does not measure 9cm x 9cm on your screen, you may recreate it to the 9x9cm dimensions.

Any person submitting a design within the framework of the competition certifies and warrants that his/her proposal does not violate the rights of a third party or any copyright.

All entrants must consult and agree to the competition Rules (see the Rules tab).

ENTRY PROVISIONS

Entries should be submitted in the format of a web-resolution jpeg of 72dpi. See the “How to Enter” section in the competition Rules for more details on image and file sizes.

Additionally, entrants should have their design readily available in a 300dpi print resolution PDF in case their poster is selected as one of the 30 to be printed. If your design is chosen to be printed, and you have verified in writing your acceptance of the usage terms, you would need to add the official logos (mentioned above in the "Design Brief") which would be supplied to you by UNESCO. (See "Proposed Usage of Winning and Selected Designs," below, for more details).

Each design submission should be accompanied by a description (French or English only, 400 words maximum) describing the design and what it intends to illustrate.

Entries that direct users away from the DESIGN 21 website will be disqualified.

creative networking

University of Arts ECCA presents Creative Networking / 15 March

Event details:
This session is designed for emerging creative graduates. Introduced and facilitated by Creative Careers, University of the Arts London, this will be an interactive experience to learn top tips from professionals on networking to further your career.

Creative practitioners, who have used networking effectively within their career, will help you improve your networking skills for success. Industry professionals include:

Lydia Thornley (Lydia Thornley design & consultancy)
Richie Manu, Creative Director (Consurgo) – helping graduates with portfolios!
Melanie Grant, CRE8 Photography Ltd and Chairman for BRX Mayfair (Business referral exchange, the Mayfair chapter)
Terry Iland, Director (award-winning commercials both in UK and internationally)
Sarah Rowles, Director (Q-Art London – London student and graduate Artist forum)
Victoria Holt, Designer (Fred&Ginger Ltd London)

Be prepared to get involved and get actively networking.

Networking drinks reception to finish session.

Date: Monday 15 March 2010
Time: Arrival 5pm for 5.30pm start until 8pm
Location: London College of Fashion, 20 John Prince’s Street, London, W1G 0BJ

Britain thinks!

...even about immigrants! interesting, anyway.

traffic lights with progress bars

"The Ecological and Economical Traffic Light Concept [relogik.com] by Damjan Stankovic is a Red Dot Design 2009 Award winner and consists of a simple yet, potentially highly practical visualization concept for everyday traffic lights that could reduce pollution and promote safer driving. There might already be quite some traffic light time counters around today, but few focus on informing the car drivers in a physically integrative and visually glanceable way like this proposed design concept.

Eko Light is specifically designed so it can be easily installed onto existing traffic light systems without much effort. It claims to bring forward following benefits:
- Less pollution, as drivers can turn their engines off and cut carbon emissions while waiting for the green light,
- Less fuel consumption, as turning off vehicle engines lowers fuel consumption in the long run,
- Less stress, since drivers know exactly how long to wait, and
- Safer driving, as all traffic participants are fully aware of how much time they have left before the light changes, reducing the chance for potential traffic accidents."

via infosthetic.com

just seeds...

"Justseeds Artists' Cooperative is a decentralized community of artists who have banded together to both sell their work online in a central location and to collaborate with and support each other and social movements. Our website is not just a place to shop, but also a destination to find out about current events in radical art and culture. Our blog covers political printmaking, socially engaged street art, and culture related to social movements. We believe in the power of personal expression in concert with collective action to transform society."

last hours

'Last Hours is a resource focusing on ‘creative resistance’. This can be many things including zine writing and DIY culture, anti-capitalist music and squat parties, or protest and revolutionary activity and probably much much more.'

London calling

a few events to put down:
Michael Wolff at Typographic circle (3.12 7pm, £5, tickets from 14/11)
ICA experimental music festival (14-22 Nov)
London Jazz festival! NOW

health stuff

the fruit pages
health alternatives: vit+min charts
BBC:
Human body&mind
Sport pages

MORE STUFF TO DO, SEE & LISTEN

12-13 Sep. Thames festival
26-27 Sep. Village fete, NT, 12-7pm, 12-3pm
13 Sep. Spitalfields show & green fair, Weaver st.
Alternative arts
16.09-2.10 The Scoop open-air screenings, wed-fri 7pm
10-11 Sep. Forum 3, Angel
9-13 Sep. One-dot-zero, BFI southbank

Give coal a boot

Coal is a medieval atavism

Tutu

London maps

Urban mapz: all-London maps of areas and shopping centres
Transport direct – transport maps & routes
my London map

London design festival-2009

Range of events for Aug-Sept as part of Design festival

Imagine Leadership

Great work for the Harvard Business School from XPLANE.com

volunteering & charity

misc volunteering organisations online:
Intervol
Young timebank
Time bank
Junction 49
ActionAid
UN volunteers
Save the children
Oxfam
Barnardo's charity
Citizens Advice
Volunteering England
NAB volunteering
Volunteer abroad
Cancer research UK
Leonard Cheshire Disability