Posts Tagged ‘project h’

Where art and design fit in. (Hint: everywhere)

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Trying to figure out where you fit into the social justice movement? Project M is an intensive summer program designed to inspire young graphic designers, writers, photographers and other creative people that their work can have a positive and significant impact on the world. (Image from Good Magazine)

Also check out this book: Design Revolution by Emily Pilloton. In January of 2008, with a thousand dollars, a laptop and an outsized conviction that design can change the world, rising San Francisco-based product designer and activist Emily Pilloton launched Project H Design, a radical non-profit that supports, inspires and delivers life-improving humanitarian product design. “We need to go beyond ‘going green’ and to enlist a new generation of design activists,” she wrote in an influential manifesto. “We need big hearts, bigger business sense and the bravery to take action now.”