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04.10.2011
Check out this new web page and app that seems to serve as an awareness raising tool about slavery by indexing your 'slavery footprint'.
http://slaveryfootprint.org/
I'm happy to see that it manages to break out of the usual visual language of slavery campaigns featuring guilt inducing images of downtrodden people and distressed fonts with excessive use of black, red, and orange.
Instea…
31.08.2011
The housing titanic – The big ship in communicating to influence the public stigma of affordable housing.
Australia has an ingrained belief that owning a home is essential to their wellbeing, stability and being a responsibility citizen in our society. This is mainly due to the fact that it has been possible in the past. Yet with our changing world this expectation is fading fast. In its wake …
13.06.2011
Vou tentar condensar pela primeira vez tudo o que tem acontecido por aqui em poucas palavras. Fato: Memefest Brasil encontra Memefest internacional. Participantes, curadores e organizadores, todos juntos por algo em torno de 10 dias num festival em Nijmegen, Holanda. Lá, encontramos participantes do International Media Training - que fariam a cobertura do festival Oddstream [ http://www.oddstream…
11.05.2011
Case study: Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. Humanites in a self-imposed crisis
End of October 2010 this document :
http://www.memefest.org/shared/Faculty_of_Arts_web_design.pdf
was sent to the mailing list of the Board for the defense of Higher education and scientific work by a professor of the Faculty of Arts. The board is a loose civil initiative consisting of academic staff…
28.04.2011
We present in cooperatin with Loesje, Masta and Kulturlabor Trial&Error:
The Memefest exhibition: “DEMONSTRATING Relevance: Response-Ability” with selected visual communication works and critical content from all over the world.
An event for interactive participation to emancipate, reinterpret and act!
>>> and in German <<<
Die Memefest Ausstellung: “DEMONSTRATING Relevance: Respon…
24.04.2011
Não foi uma decisão fácil. Muitos participantes enviaram bons trabalhos para o festival desse ano. Dentre esses, os mentores do workshop - Oliver Vodeb, Tony Credland, Sandy Kaltenborn, Shoaib Nabi, Alain Bieber e Jason Grant - tiveram a difícil tarefa de escolher quais seriam convidados para Nijmegen, Holanda, em junho desse ano. Os critérios para participação no workshop de comunicação socialme…
19.04.2011
Abstract for the Design History Society conference Design Activism and Social Change. See blog for more pictures and links: http://ecolabs.posterous.com/
Hopenhagen was an initiative by the International Advertising Association in support of the United Nations at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP-15) in Copenhagen December 2009. The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon UN asked for help from t…
19.04.2011
Create visuals that communicate policy issues/scenarios in really compelling ways.
10th May between 5-9pm, London.
Visual Camp - vote on projects: http://bit.ly/e6MEV4
Visual Camp- register to come: http://visualcamp.eventbrite.com/
15.04.2011
It was not a easy decision to make. To many participants submitted good work to this year’s festival, too many of you we would like to work with in our workshop. However, we had to make a decision. Workshop mentors: Tony Credland, Sandy Kaltenborn, Shoaib Nabi, Alain Bieber, Jason Grant and myself were first discussing criteria than we selected separate lists and in the end one list of twenty p…
25.03.2011
