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Jump!

‘My graduation film at La Cambre, Bruxelles 2011.’

Found via Zach Moreno

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More Occupy visuals

As more of the world finds itself occupied, additional visuals are showing up on the interwebs.

Above, OCCUPY U poster created by an anonymous designer friend, whose name is left off for fear of losing another job (click to download printable PDF).

Below, statistical poster from new website Occupy Design. And at bottom, Shepard Fairey does his thang.

Click on images to download and/or jump to respective websites.

Occupy Design found via GOOD

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Good 50×70

‘It’s a competition to raise awareness amongst the creative community of the power we have to be a force for good.’

Posters from the Good 50×70 Competition.

Found via Robert L. Peters

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‘What role we are playing. Making the filthy oil company look ‘clean,’ making the car brochure higher-quality than the car, making the spaghetti sauce look like it’s been put up by grandma, making the junky condo look hip. Is all that okay, or just the level to which design and many other professions have sunk?’ –Tibor Kalman

I first discovered Tibor Kalman’s work sometime around 1990.

He was doing something that most everyday graphic designers seemed to be avoiding. Questioning things.

His adeptness at social change – being a responsible human being, helping others – happened by working within the system. First at Barnes & Noble, M&Co., then Interview, Colors magazines. And as a teacher.

Before he passed in 1999, Kalman was the facilitator of what I see as a great awakening in our industry. And those who were part of his circle – such as his wife Maira, Stefan Sagmeister, Scott Stowell, Alexander Isley – have made graphic design much more than pretty brochures and generic logotypes.

Good design for good purposes is good. Making shitheads lots of money thru questionable practices is bad. Seems simple, right?

It isn’t.

I posted this because the rest of the world is waking up just about right now. And this past week, Steven Heller wrote up a great piece on Kalman.

Pictured from top down, advertisements and promotions for NYC’s Restaurant Florent. With Alexander Isley, from 1985–88. Found via Tibor Kalman: Design and Undesign and MoMA

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‘After Hours’

‘Karlie Kloss lives up to her reputation as the all-American girl as she dons glitter, sequins and Lurex to revisit New York’s Seventies disco heyday’

Editorial for the November 2011 British Vogue photographed by Terry Richardson.

Donna Summer: Hot Stuff

Found via Fashion Indie

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Make change

The work of Evan Huwa.

Found via Carole Guevin

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‘It’s a medium, not a grande’

Brooklyn Fare cups. Designed by the minds at Mucca.

Found via Destroy Today

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Occupy, the posters

‘I’ve been doing posters for tons of cities across America’

In the past few weeks, one of my former students has found herself cast as the visual heart of the Occupy movement. Raina Dayne started with offering to do a poster and it’s blossomed into something much bigger.

Raina’s images can be downloaded for use at the Occupy Together website. Facebook page here, shirts here.