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June 2009
Captain Ahab’s Fine Seafood. Benjamin Button’s Diaper Service, Kafka’s Pest Control, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’s Pharmacy. To promote reading, the Johnson County Library in Kansas City dressed their courier trucks as delivery vehicles for fictitious businesses based on literary classics. See photos of the trucks and the library’s press release.
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¶Speaking Books. 
“Books of Hope partnered with the South African Depression and Anxiety Group, to design and produce interactive, multilingual Speaking Books that can be seen, read, heard and understood by the reader regardless of their reading ability.
The Speaking Book combines the latest sound chip technology featuring a sound track read by well-known local celebrities in the local language, with a durable laminated hard backed book, to take the reader on a step-by-step guide to wellness. Books of Hope has successfully created an effective means to present complex health care issues by adapting to the culture, skills and needs of communities while encouraging them to build self confidence with a simple action plan.” ¶
“Books of Hope partnered with the South African Depression and Anxiety Group, to design and produce interactive, multilingual Speaking Books that can be seen, read, heard and understood by the reader regardless of their reading ability.The Speaking Book combines the latest sound chip technology featuring a sound track read by well-known local celebrities in the local language, with a durable laminated hard backed book, to take the reader on a step-by-step guide to wellness. Books of Hope has successfully created an effective means to present complex health care issues by adapting to the culture, skills and needs of communities while encouraging them to build self confidence with a simple action plan.” ¶
Awards can't feed the hungry.. “Every year hundreds of PSAs are done for the wrong reasons.
Help us to create social advertising that actually makes a difference.” A campaign from Osocio and Steal Our Ideas on social change and the contest culture afflicting design and advertising.
See also Sandy K's extraordinary and generous 2006 response (PDF) to the Memefest social communication contest and this nice long rant, Awards Madness!, from Jason Grant of Inkahoots. ¶
See also Sandy K's extraordinary and generous 2006 response (PDF) to the Memefest social communication contest and this nice long rant, Awards Madness!, from Jason Grant of Inkahoots. ¶
Mappare il potere. Come usare il design per arrivare a ciò che si desidera. My article Mapping Power in Italian at SocialDesignZine. Ciao! ¶
mousavi1388's photostream. What started as a collection of campaign-related photo ops on Flickr has become a visual catalog of the massive rallies thundering across Iran. ¶
The High Line is Open!. After 10 years of lobbying, fundraising, design and development by the Friends of the High Line, the first phase of the High Line is now officially open to the public. The High Line is an elevated railway along the west side of Manhattan being converted into a unique public park. Read more about the opening in the NY Times. I wrote about the role of design in the Friends’ advocacy work in Communication Arts in May 2004 and again in May 2009.
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