The New York chapter of the Graphic Artists Guild is presents Sustainability & Green Design for Creatives
The event will feature a panel with representatives from The Vox Collective, the Lowe-Martin Group, Mohawk Paper, and Pratt’s Director of Sustainability.
Thursday, October 16th
7-9PM
Pratt Institute Manhattan Campus
144 West 14th Street, Room 203
more info
Tonight starting at 7pm, I’ll be live blogging from Designism 3.0 at the Art Directors Club in New York City.
A few updates may trickle in early from the Ideas That Matter exhibition reception prior to the main event.
Will you be at ADC tonight? Be sure to say “hi!”
Citizen Scholar enthusiastically invites you to join us for Race for the Cure NYC on Sunday September 14th, 2008.
Join The Amazing Project team or give a gift to Race for the Cure, and accompany our friends from the design community and beyond in celebrating the work of the Susan G. Komen Foundation to run breast cancer out of town.
Two Fridays ago we competed in the 3rd Annual World Graphic Design Foosball Chapionships.
I say “competed” lightly, because Ryan Feerer and I only made it through three games (and two losses) before falling off the brackets that began with 76 teams playing in for Manhattan locations.
Our friends from SpotCo were looking pretty serious:
Fellow Brooklynites Urban Inks are opening a screen printing and design collaborative space in Long Island City. LIC happens to be my other ‘hood, so I’m especially excited about this.
Post Expose will house the work spaces of several designer and artist printers beginning in November.
Grand Opening
November 1 2007
Hours
M-F 10am-6pm
Sat 12pm-8pm
Location
21-36 44 Road,
Long Island City
Queens, NY
They’ve also invited Citizen Scholar to include a poster in the opening exhibition. Thanks, guys! You’re swell.
We hope to see you there.
I’m very excited to announce that The Amazing Project is lifting off. What formed originally as my MFA Designer As Author thesis at the School of Visual Arts, is now in the process of becoming a New York State non-for-profit corporation.
Super-Awesome Answer:
The Amazing Project is a New York State non-profit corporation (approval pending). Our goal is to foster a culture of hope by sharing the stories of people who are making a positive impact in the world and connecting potential volunteers and participants with accessible ways to get involved. We will share these stories through a robust website, regular email newsletter, special online projects, public exhibitions, printed publishing projects, and events.
We aim to help amazing people succeed.
Be sure to sign up for the newsletter on the site to find out when the site launches and to receive news about amazing developments.
The Amazing Project needs start up cash! We have a brand new iPod Nano and we’re raffling it off. We know we can use its super-fun appeal to raise money for our cause. Each raffle e-ticket is only $1. Find out more at The Amazing Project Pledgie page or use the widget below. Hurry! The raffle entries close at midnight EST Friday September 21st!
Not only is it a brand new 8gb iPod Nano, it’s a (PRODUCT) RED Nano. That means Apple gives a portion of the purchase price to the Global Fund to fight AIDS in Africa. Sure we wish they’d give the whole thing, but this is a step in the right direction. And it’s red…which is almost as cool as yellow.
Thank you, in advance, for your interest and support.
I won’t miss this one: SVA design student Anthony Defranco has organized this Saturday’s (Marth 24th’s) Bubble Bath bubble-blowing event in Union Square. Anthony’s charming inspiration story is spot on.
We’ve been working diligently for the last several weeks, helping one of our newest clients, Do Something, get the word out about The BRICK Awards. It’s an amazing program that award young people who are actively changing the world. From The BRICK Awards release:
The BRICK Awards, which honors twelve young leaders who identified a problem in their community and then got up off the couch and did something about it, announced today that the show will be broadcast nationwide on The CW April 12 with limited commercial interruption. The BRICK Awards will be produced by Alex Coletti, who has created and produced some of the most memorable moments in awards show history. The show will be sponsored by General Motors and Pepsi and JPMorgan Chase will serve as the official financial services sponsor of the BRICK Awards.
The BRICK Award is the premiere national award for community service. Young people and celebrities are honored in four categories: public health, community building, education & environment, and global impact.
This is the first awards show produced by the newly formed Alex Coletti Productions and the first award show on the new CW Network. Securing a primetime slot on The CW elevates this award—and community service in general—to the same status as other “fame” based awards being distributed this season.
The BRICK Awards puts the spotlight on the young change-makers who have committed themselves to making a difference in the world. By supporting and rewarding young community action ‘rock stars,’ the BRICK Awards is creating a whole new breed of role models who aren’t famous for their fashion choices or their ability to throw a party, but for their dedication to changing the world.
“Other award shows recognize celebrities who can ice skate and people who can sing, it’s about time we honor people who actually do really important good work. I’m looking forward to making these kids more famous than Paris Hilton,” said Nancy Lublin, CEO of the BRICK Awards.
Each of the 12 BRICK Winners will receive a $10,000 community grant to continue their work. Four of the 12 winners will be selected as Golden BRICK Winners during the BRICK Awards show. The Golden BRICK Winners will receive an additional $15,000 community grant for a total of $25,000.
Last August we shared that we’ve been working with our dear friend on his recycling program in Monteagudo, Bolivia.
Ross is still in Monteagudo and is seeking funding that will allow himself, his team, and members of the community to implement a plastic recycling program that will create recurring revenue for some residents in the extremely poor region.
H.A.M.M. (Mayor’s Office of Monteagudo) has adopted a progressive waste managment campaign to eliminate all plastics from its city dump and other areas (in some cases rivers) where the plastics pile up and facilitate water born diseases. The keystone for H.A.M.M.’s campaign is to develop a self-sustainable recycling center that would solve the areas discarded plastic problem and supply locals with an option of a small income. The recycling program would operate in much the same way we know of in United States; Plastic bottles are purchase by the redemption center (in this case by the kilo) by anyone who collects them, processed at the center, then shipped in large volumes to the city where the bottles are sold to a plastics purchaser – and the revenue produced by the sale of the plastics would then sustain the costs of running the recycling center in Monteagudo. As well, 2 dozen steel cage containers will be fabricated and dispersed around the city in specific high traffic areas to provided the public with available areas where they can correctly dispose of plastics. Other strengths of this project include a cross media awareness campaign and environmental and recycling workshops for all local schools.Although their commitment to the environment is stronger then most communities, H.A.M.M. is very much like the majority of Bolivian Municipalities – poor. This is in fact the first time that H.A.M.M. have invested so much into an environmental project and now requests support from Partner assistance, to help finance the rest of the building materials needed to construct the recycling center.
See the Peace Corps page to learn more and find a link to make a contribution to the project.