Happy birthday Angela Davis. The quote is from this talk of hers on how change happens. If inclined you can download the image as a PDF.

I thought this Tweet was poignant, so put together this sketch.

Download a printable PDF or a high resolution JPG.

Ordering Posters and Flyers

• You can purchase color posters from ShortRunPosters. 18" x 24" posters start at $3 (plus shipping.) Just upload this high resolution JPG when placing your order.
  
  
• For color flyers, visit VistaPrint and upload this high resolution CMYK jpg when placing your order there.

Kind of a nerdy in-joke, I know, but I still think it works. Click through for a downloadable PDF.

More Occupy Wall Street posters here.

Nudged by Noah and Josh and inspired by everyone down at the park, I turned out a few poster ideas for press. Click through to download higher resolution versions. Reproduce and revolt!

Update 12/2/11: More Occupy posters of mine here, here and here.

Since its founding in 2003, the International Criminal Court has issued 26 indictments. Not saying the charges aren’t warranted, but there seems to be a geographic pattern here. See also.

This spread was cut from a recent project of mine — the client revised the text to incorporate the data throughout the book — but I thought it was urgent so am posting it here. Click below to download a PDF version. Feel free to use it.

The international art magazine frieze put social design on the cover of this month’s edition. The cover story is a roundtable discussion I participated in about design and social responsibility. It’s a fairly critical look, touching on ethics, design education, and public policy. Issue #138 is on the stands now, or you can read the discussion online here.

The holidays are coming! Could you use 100 full-color palm cards? Perhaps an end of year greeting or donation appeal? A little agit-prop or calling card? And don’t travel without your atheism cards!

Next Day Flyers is offering one of my readers free printing of 100 1/6 page flyers (4.125 x 3.375 inches) printed on 14 PT card stock, with full color on the front and black on the back. They will print with next day turnaround and include ground shipping to anywhere in the Continental U.S.

Next Day Flyers is an offset printing company that prints posters, flyers and business cards.

To enter, just leave a comment on this post before midnight EST Friday, November 26, 2010. You must be 18 or over to enter and must include your email address (though it will not show publicly on the site.) One commenter will be chosen at random to win the free printing.

Update: Comments are now closed. Congratulations Jesse!

The Center for the Study of Political Graphics has two new online exhibitions: MasterPeaces, High Art for Higher Purpose and Art Against Empire, Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since World War II. Both are chock full of oppositional graphic goodness (and one of my poster designs, too!)

Civil society in Lebanon is blossoming. The number of registered NGOs has increased dramatically in recent years and as advocacy campaigns become more sophisticated, there is a growing appetite for learning new techniques for conveying ones messages. I was invited by the US State Department Speaker Specialist Program to work with the Social Media Exchange (SMEX) in Beirut to conduct a week of workshops for local and international NGO staff on visual thinking and information design for advocacy.

Building on my work and my 2008 booklet Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design, I devised three day-long workshops which were announced as follows:

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