Dedicated to clever and innovative trends of art and design in activism.

Collective Lens is a website promoting social change through photography. The goal is to inspire users to:

• Upload a photo that promotes a charitable cause or brings awareness to a humanitarian need.
• View the latest photos, educate yourself on current issues, and discover organizations or ways to become involved.
• Search for charities and organizations in a particular area or for a specific cause.
• Read the latest articles about charities, humanitarian causes, and photography.

The site also serves as a social network for nonprofits seeking to raise awareness about their cause, and have a great series of articles on how to begin.

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The New York Times has published a series of cartoons on the design of 2008 Presidential candidates’ logos and bumper stickers.

Their critiques are kind of apt and funny…

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Design Against Fur 2007 regional winners have been selected, and voting is open in the People’s Choice Awards for the best poster. This year’s theme, “Fashion Victims,” inspired some powerful designs. You can help decide who gets the grand prize of $1,000 (paid by Fur Free Alliance) by voting before midnight EST on Friday, November 30th.

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Yo! What Happened to Peace? started in 2003 in response to the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq as a simple, 14 piece exhibit in Tokyo.  This year, they published the Yo! What Happened to Peace? book, which is a show of their commitment to “highlighting the beauty of hand-crafted printmaking techniques as a method of visual protest.”  The exhibit has been on the road since it’s opening, always on the look for new work and new artists.

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Sorry, folks, for the lack of posts yesterday. I’ll fill you in on what you missed yesterday, and double our posts for today.

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