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Visual Culture is a daily design blog that presents a fresh mix of visually inspiring material as it relates to modern day life. We strive to create a resource in which art, in its vast array of mediums, meets culture. Art and design are inextricably
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Even in today’s technologically advanced age, posters are still very powerful tools to communicate opinions and information on a universal level. We’ve included a few of our favorites for your perusal. F*ck You Sida! (AIDS) Poster by Joe Scors...
Advocates For AIDS
Visual Culture presents this collection of non-profit organization logos to keep with our theme today that is focused on raising awareness for HIV/AIDS as part of World AIDS Day 2009. Each organization is dedicated to combat AIDS. 1. Youth AIDS 2. L...
Today is World AIDS Day
Image from Lights for Rights World AIDS Day has been held on December 1st since 1988. The intention is to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS across the globe. For this years event the theme is focused on human rights and access to treatment. Below ...
From the VC Archives
Circa the 2008 presidential election, VC presented an iconic poster series that examined some of the most pressing issues of our time. To mark the occasion, which sparked a fascinating dialogue amongst Visual Culturists, we’ve decided to pull ...
Another Good Info Graphic
In their latest Transparency Series. Good in collaboration with Lamosca bring clarity into where CO2 emissions are coming from. Launch the BIG graphic here....
One Day of Action
Today people in 181 countries will come together for the most widespread day of environmental action. To learn more click here....
Call for Entries: A poster 4 Tomorrow
From Press Release: Poster4Tomorrow is online and open for entries from September 3. Entries will be accepted until November 15, and winners will be announced in December. The best 100 posters will be published in a book and exhibited in Paris. Five ...
Celebrating Columbus Day
Thanks James Victore....
Good 50X70: Design for Good
Good 50X70 is an international initiative that we at Visual Culture have been both participants and huge supporters of over the last three years. Recently, we’ve had the pleasure of dialoguing with Good 50X70 co-founders Tommaso Minnetti and Pa...
Bottled Water is the Primary Cause of Restless Leg Syndrome
This clever Tappening advertising campaign challenges the notion of Truth in Advertising while embracing an opposing concept. Lying. Tappening co-founders ask, “Why is it some bottled water brands still don’t list their source?” and encourage t...
The Socially Conscious Geek: Makin’ Money While Doin’ Good
“The Socially Conscious Geek: Makin’ Money While Doin’ Good” is a proposed panel for the 2010 South By Southwest Interactive conference. The conference planners have received over 2,200 proposals for panels and only 300 will b...
‘Be a Part of the Action’
“Historically posters have been inextricably linked with cause-related campaigns. Visually striking, often iconic and frequently iconoclastic, posters grab the attention like no other medium. They effectively help spread a succinct message and ...
Iconography and Typography at its best
Oxfam International, got a bold makeover thanks to Barcelona-based design studio Hey. The aim was to renew the image of Oxfam and create an emotional link between the association and its young target. To create a more visual language, the letters ar...
GreenPeace Design Awards Announced
The short-list of the GreenPeace Design Awards has been released. The winners will be announced at the Awards ceremony on July 31st, 2009. The above poster by Spencer Harrison was one of the pieces to make the short-list. View the full gallery here....
Save Your Logo
Here’s an interesting concept for animal and plant conservation. Lacoste is one of the first companies to join in on the effort. Save Your Logo creates an opportunity for companies represented by a plant or animal in their logo to contribute to...
200,000 Coke cans = 1 Massive Aluminum Sculpture
To mark the start of Recycle Week in the UK, a team of artists led by Robert Bradford collected 200,000 aluminum Coke cans and recreated a 1949 billboard ad originally created by artist Haddon Sundblom. “At the end of Recycle Week [June 22-28]...
Celebrating Diversity
The results of Design 21’s logo competition are in with Yael Alkalay’s concept taking first prize. His logo will be acknowledged as the official logo for UNESCO’s International Festival of Cultural Diversity....
Urban Forest Project
San Francisco has joined the growing list of cities to launch the ‘Urban Forest Project’— an initiative of Worldstudio. Each local project incorporates an environmental call to action such as tree planting initiatives. The program can ...
1500 Bottles = 1 second
Watershed Assembly at MSLK 5/24/09 from MSLK on Vimeo. Queens-based graphic design agency, MSLK is creating an installation that uses 1,500 water bottles, the number of bottles consumed every 1 second — yikes! The eco-art piece inspires the public ...
In-Formed Visualizations with everyday objects
Designer Nadeem Haidary has developed three case studies of everday products like the ‘fork’ as seen above. Below is an excerpt of the designer explaining his process: Statistics like these may be striking when you first read them, but wi...
Origami Bags
Convert your empty paperbag into a fun origami animal. The designer behind the idea exlpains, “Empty paperbags, containing simple step by step instructions on how to fold the bag into an origami animal, in order to become a sustainable designer toy...
Project M at Winterhouse
This year 15 professionals/students will converge at Winterhouse in Connecticut to participate in a collaborative design project for social change called Project M. Project M, is an intensive summer program committed to inspire young creatives to ap...
210 Posters for Good
Good 50X70 has announced the final selections in their annual poster competition geared to raise awareness on 7 endorsed social/environmental issues. You can see the results here....
Call For Entries: Cause/affect
Cause/affect is a biennial graphic design competition which celebrates the work of designers and organizations who set out to positively impact our society. Entry Deadline is June 19th. Find out more here....
What Comes Around, Goes Around
Here’s a clever solution designed by Big Ant International for Global Coalition for Peace. Each poster was designed to wrap around poles and are part of a campaign to end the war in Iraq. via:...
Call For Entries: Ideas that Matter
A decade ago, Sappi launched Ideas that Matter, the design industry’s only grant program geared at helping designers use their talents for social good. To date, Ideas that Matter has awarded $9 million worldwide in grants supporting a myriad of cau...
Goods for the Greater Good
Social Designer strives to spark new thinking about the issues that matter most by encouraging the design community to create fun, socially-relevant graphics for apparel, canvass bags, and many other things. Find out more here....
DESIGNING FOR CHANGE
Icograda, the International Council of Graphic Design Associations, posts weekly eNews with updates and articles from the global design community. Visual Culture co-founder David Oberholtzer recently contributed an article called “Designing for Cha...
Are You a Softy?
Over the weekend VC received the first issue of SoftSpot Magazine that was launched in conjuction with a gallery exhibition in San Francisco. While the format is a bit cumbersome (poster size)—the content and graphic treatment inside warrants our a...
The Bay vs. The Bag
Dig this stop motion inspired video by Save the Bay as part of their new campaign to rid the bay of plastic bags. While the city of San Francisco has made a lot of progress to banish plastic bags, there are still a whopping 100 bags in the bay per se...
