Come Together: Join a Design Collective

Monday 07 Sep 2009

Joining a design collective can spark your creativity – and give your career a boost.

http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/index.cfm?featureid=1885

by Innosanto Nagara

Design Action Collective is a fun, creative, place to work. We provide graphic design and visual communications services to activist, social change and other progressive organizations. We believe that social-change messages need to communicate effectively with their target audiences.

Inkworks Press is an offset printshop that was established in 1973 by a group of activists who wanted to ensure “Freedom of the Press” - by owning one! Both shops are worker-owned and operated cooperatives. Both are unionized. We serve the same “client”-base and have a shared history. (more…)

Design Action recently designed a series of campaign collateral pieces for International Rivers’ campaign to stop the building of dams on two major rivers in the Chilean Patagonia. International Rivers is pressuring Home Depot since they are the largest buyer of timber products from the main Chilean interest promoting the dams.

International Rivers is a longtime client, and over the years Design Action has created their identity branding (including logo, colors, and collateral).

For this project International Rivers asked us to create a logo for their “Dam Home Depot” campaign, along with stickers, informational fliers, and a fact sheet.

It was brought to our attention that activists in California recently hit a local Home Depot, urging shoppers to take their business elsewhere until Home Depot stops engaging in the destruction of the Chilean Patagonia. See photos from the action here.

View the International Rivers Patagonia Campaign here.