Design Alliance Omaha First Friday Discussion. Join us Friday, March 3rd to review an investigation of precedent and context into the idea of a design district in Omaha, NE. Talk with members of the community and leave us your thoughts on these questions:
Omaha by Design Gallery
618 South 11th Street
5:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Beer and wine served with light hors d’oeuvres.
AIGA recently implemented the Diversity & Inclusion Initiative at the national level. At the local level, our Nebraska chapter has begun a mission focused on education and community called Embrace & Engage & Empower. Led by friend and fellow designer Cathy Solarana, the plan is to collaborate with individuals from a variety of professions and cultural, ethnic, and racial perspectives to identify our biggest challenges.
I’ve often thought the design community as a whole is fairly oblivious to big issues like social responsibility, advocacy, and working to make social change happen. I’m very excited about what’s to come with these initiatives. It’s a start and I think they could lead to some substantive change when it comes to how the design profession exists in the larger context of community challenges and community solutions.
Since the inauguration, we’ve seen some powerful graphic design meant to spread the message of resistance. Here are just a few of my favorites:
Are there others? Please email links.
Now offering brand assessment services on a scale:
Quite Wonderful
Super Solid
Appropriate
It’s OK
Falls Flat
Hmmmmmmmmm
Not Even Average
Um, We’ll Get Back To You
Maybe As An Album Cover
Your Cousin Do This?
We will tell you it’s tremendous while winking
Week 4 Update: Backwards appears to be the course for America, at least for now. While resistance on the left grows and the movement to stand up to this administration strengthens, the battle to inform, inspire, persuade, and motivate will only get more intense. It will be important that progress continues to speak truth to power just like it always has. Old is new again and these posters will keep doing what they originally intended — to give power to whoever posts them.
Where do you find yourself wandering in the pitch black? Where do you go when confronted with a blank white whatever? Where is that place you reach into and summon something you can call a brilliant magnificent new way of being? What keeps you up in the still night? What makes you uncomfortable enough to keep looking? What is the thing that you just can’t let go of? Why is there a pang in your chest when you’re sitting still? Agitated? Yes. Jittery? Yes. Unsettled? Yes. Why must you insist on pushing through when you clearly do not have to? [ ... ]
It’s been sort of a long time since I’ve made a political poster. Too long. Now in 2017, here’s the first of the resistance age:
An urgent, hasty, sketchy mess of a design. Scribbled over and over. Repetition you can feel. A whirlwind of speed to let you know I think this is just enough. This is all that needs to be shown. The point can stop here. With the mess of hair, the piercing eye slots, that cavernous mouth. Spewing forth chewed up words of lies and nonsense. Spitting on you. Spitting on me. With a simple 1-word association: FOOL.
Trump as the fool, the court jester, that laughing stock that wasn’t taken all that seriously until now he is. He fooled you, he fooled me, he fooled us all. Now with his endless Tweets of distraction intended to continue to fool us. To keep us from watching what’s really going on. He wants to fool us away from truth and away from each other. Divide. Confuse. Numb. He’s the greatest fool of our generation. Created to fool. With his fury unleashed at the top of the heap. We need to stay vigilant and we can no longer remain on the fooled end of a fool’s errand to the insulting of the highest office in the land.
