Russian and Soviet posters, 1917-1991. Massive collection of 1,469 images of propaganda and advertising art on Flickr. (via)  ¶

The Best Public Services in the World. The BBC’s Newsnight looks at health care in Cuba, trasport in Oregon, education in Qatar, and prisons in Denmark. Click the photos to watch the clips. It raises the obvious question: if there’s no shortage of best practices and models that work... why can’t we do it here?  ¶

Amici di Social Design Zine. Friends of Social Design Zine, an Italian equivalent of Social Design Notes, are meeting in Venice on September 30, 2006.  ¶

Top 25 Censored Stories of 2006. Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran... The World Bank Funds Israel-Palestine Wall... “Stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country’s major national news media.” From Project Censored, a group of 250 student researchers and faculty out of Sonoma State University.  ¶

Recycle Art Design. Reza Hashemi breathes new life into discarded objects. There’s a beautiful post-industrial quality to some of them. I love the lightbulbs turned oil lamps, and the old PC scanners turned into jewlery showcases.  ¶

Landing the Perfect Pitch: Six Guerilla Media Relations Tips. (580 Kb PDF.) A brief guide for activists full of good basic tips. Published under Creative Commons by a CBC veteran.  ¶