Design Diva & Activist Sabiha Basrai
If anyone has every told you that you can't meld all your passions into a successful career, then they only said that to you because they couldn't figure out how to do it themselves. If you want proof that this is possible, all you need to do is turn to Sabiha Basrai as an example... [The DesiConnect entire article]

35 years of Inkworks posters book off the press!
Visions of Peace and Justice, a book of 35 years of Inkworks posters that prominently features Design Action's work alongside essays by David Bacon, Lincoln Cushing, Angela Davis, Anuradha Mittal, Carol Wells, and others. [Purchase your copy online]

Design Action wins "Oakland Soul" award
Recognizing that Design Action represents the best of what this town is all about, Oakland Unwrapped awarded us their Oakland Soul award! Oakland Unwrapped's Indie Awards "Celebrate the Spirit and Impact of Oakland's Independent Businesses and Artists"
http://www.oaklandunwrapped.org/indies/

Rini Templeton tribute event and exhibit is a hit
Design Action joined the Rini Templeton Memorial Fund, Tumis, DataCenter, and Inkworks Press in producing an exhibit, tribute event and discussion in honor of the great movement artist Rini Templeton.
Click here to go to the Rini Art website

Inside Bay Area article on worker-cooperatives
A nice article on the growth of Bay Area worker-cooperatives. Design Action is mentioned briefly along with Inkworks.
Click here to read the article

Design Action in Communication Arts
Columnist John Emerson of blogpspot discusses Design Action and other cooperatives in his Communication Arts column.
Click here to read the article

Hank wins Golden Quill Award
Hank, the bimonthly publication we design for Kaiser's Labor Management Partnership was just awarded the 2006 International Association of Business Communicators Gold Quill Award for Excellence, IABC's highest honor.
Click here to view our listing at the Golded Quill site

Design Action featured in UK Arts magazine
In Get Started with Collaboration, Mark Ramshaw discusses Design Action's organizational model, and features the Wal Mart projections we developed for The Ruckus Society and Wal Mart Watch as a case study .
Click here to download pdf

Nadia Khastagir speaks at the Intersection for the Arts
On Tuesday, December 13, 2005 Nadia joined Juan Fuentes of Mission Grafica and Favianna Rodriguez of Tumis on a discussion panel at the Intersection for the Arts. The panel was called Communication for Liberation, with the stated goal of sparking "a lively discussion about critical issues in movement design, iconographic symbols, and radical graphics". The panel was a precursor to their subsequent installation, Battle Emblems.
Click here to see the panel's announcement

Creative Pro features our work for IRN:
When Design Action developed a logo for a conference in Thailand on protecting the health and safety of the world's rivers, they were challenged by a flood of different applications and backgrounds. Click here for a link to the full Creative Pro article

Three of our Designs included in Peace Signs Anthology
Three Design Action pieces were published in Peace Signs: The Anti-War Movement Illustrated. These include the Not In Our Name 'globe' poster, the Inkworks 'No War Against Iraq' windowigns, and the United for Peace and Justice 'These Colors Don't Run... the World' stickers. Also, our Anti War Poster links page is highlighted in the introduction. The collection has been published in German, Spanish and English.
Click here for more info on Peace Signs

Berkeley Daily Planet article on Worker Coops quotes Design Action:
The Bay Area is home to several dozen worker cooperatives, or collectives, in which every member is at the same time a worker and an owner of the enterprise. Some are thriving and others are struggling, but they are all enterprises dedicated to the notion that there is a better way to do business than business as usual... Click here for the full article

Coverage of Jumpstart Ford Campaign:
Articles in both The New York Times and AlterNet covering Rainforest Action Network's Freedom From Oil campaign both make mention of a series of ads we designed.
http://www.ran.org/news/newsitem.php?id=1537&area=home http://www.alternet.org/story/23582/