We’ve received an excellent baker’s dozen graphics from our partners at GOOD magazine in response to our shared call for visualized information about the Haiti earthquake. The editor’s of GOOD and myself will be choosing a winner this week! Which do you think is the best? See the contest page at GOOD.
-Aaron
I’m proud to announce that we’ll be partnering with GOOD magazine who will be running a Haiti info graphic contest alongside our ongoing drive. The good people at GOOD have provided some excellent leads on information and inspiration as well as their own excellent info graphic on who has given money to the Haiti relief effort.
This is a fabulous opportunity to grow our community and drastically increase exposure for our messages. Please read on here for more information.
Graphic designs come in many varieties. We are asking for one of two types:
1/ Promotions: Visuals that raise attention to an action like “buy” or “help” or “want”,
2/ Infographics: Visuals that create an understanding of a situation “oh, I see” or “so there is a relationship” or “I didn’t know!.”
Sometimes you have combinations of promotion/infographics which you could say is the ideal situation of deeply understanding or discovering a relationship and then being led to action. But the two can be dealt with separately as well.
John Maeda
Checkout this top-notch map of Port Au Prince built by Capac Roberts using Google Maps. Download here.
I created Design for Obama and saw what a fully engaged, passionate, creative community can do. On that occasion, we were eager to lend our creative talents to a movement calling for change and inspire others to do the same.
Today we face a much graver task: In the wake of the unimaginable suffering that has befallen the island of Haiti, it is our job as artists and designers to use our talents to call for advocacy and understanding. Thanks to Design for Obama artist, James Nesbitt, we are now operating from designforhaiti.com.
Consider this a creative call to action to design:
Posters that advocate President Clinton and President Bush’s call for relief.
Information graphics that increase understanding of the plight of Haitians affected by the earthquake.
Both are necessary; this is what artists and designers do best. Let us come together and lead the way to relief.
-Aaron Perry-Zucker
