Haiti Poster Project
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- OSFA0
I'm thinking of doing some, but how could i get a printer to step up and help? the greedy motherfackers always want money....
- dbloc0
interesting.
- MrNibs0
Spent last weekend in my garage helping a friend press a giant lino-cut into paper for this Haiti Poster Project. You can do it for cheap, it just sucks up a weekend.
FYI. rolling over poster with a car to press ink into paper doesn't work as well as it would seem.
- mareakorea0
It's a horrible thing that happened in Haiti, and instead of trying to send as many doctors as we can over there (because that's where the money from the posters go [read the site]), some people are trying to analyze why people SHOULDN'T do this? Shouldn't we analyze why we SHOULD do this?
Starfish Story (http://www.cedu.niu.edu/~fulmer...
Every little bit helps.
- OSFA0
have any of you ever worked on a probono project like this with a printer?
- OSFA0
All submissions will become property of THE HAITI POSTER PROJECT... I wonder if you get credit ;)
- instil_design0
- Love the colours you chose and the design on the bottom is BANANAS!ideaist
- Thesocialgospel0
yeah, it is pretty reprehensible to say "to do this, the designer must be PRETTY selfish"
- Douglas0
These design projects for World Relief always seem weird to me. Why not just donate the money directly to Doctors Without Borders of the equivalent time and resources you are going to allocate to your submission? And the idea of a poster "raising awareness" after the fact that the disaster happened a month ago feels like too little, too late. We should all start designing posters to be posted around likely disaster areas of what to do when shit starts going down... emergency graphics with giant icons and bold type. I think that would make more of a difference. Imagine that Shepard Fairy Obama poster being created a month after Obama was elected.
*steps off soapbox
- utopian0
Anyone poster contests for Chile yet?
- epic_rim0
yeah, come on, Haiti was like so February. Chile needs our free time now.
One tribe ya'll, one tribe ya'll, let's catch amnesia, let's get retarded in here.
- Douglas0
And then there is this: http://postercauseproject.bigcar…
Really, a 6inch x 11inch print is called a "poster"?
Seriously, just donate $15 directly. This seems frivolous to me, and not a great use of graphic design. Also odd that only some are original art related to the cause.- +1sequoia
- wtf is up with some of those posters?OSFA
- -1, see below.Thesocialgospel
- OSFA0
I personally don't think it is that bad. After all, they are taking the time to organize this, keep track, promote it, etc... And that's not that easy, just check our QBNTPEs ;) besides, there are people out there that like posters, and would gladly spend $20 to buy a nicely done poster while helping in some way, so why not?
- d_rek0
I was biting my tongue about this, thinking i was being too much of a pessimist.... but apparently i'm not the only one who thinks it a 'frivolous' exercise.
I also don't see how a poster, in all of it's glory, truly benefits anyone. I mean, they're really banking on a couple crapshoots here: a) that all the poster submissions will be good enough to sell and b) that people will buy the posters at all
However... I still could just be a pessimist.
- guess i'm just a pessimistd_rek
- I think the idea behind the poster and it's usefulness is a relic from graphic design's past. They're not as effective as they used to be. Posters played the role that the internet/facebook/et... now play in our society.Josev
- used to be. Posters played the role that the internet/facebook/et... now play in our society.Josev
- I love the art of the poster, but that's just about what they are now, art.Josev
- Tofublock0
I think any effort to give people money is good in my book. Sure this might not be a very productive way of doing it, but trying to help is better than not trying at all right?
- Thesocialgospel0
How is this not productive? if you submit 50 posters, and the site sells them for 20 a piece, that is 1000 dollars per design.
The Katrina project raised, like, $50,000 worth in 2005. So really, it isnt frivolous at all, and really these posters arent being created to "Raise Awareness", they are using the resources designers have at hand and using them because people will buy the posters that are for sale.
Also, mad props to Black Swan in Houston TX, they are screenprinting my posters for free. Badass.
- andreasm0
What I object to personally is that these products/commodities become a means of communicating goodwill on behalf of the artist. It's an added credential to a CV or a portfolio in the future. Looking at some of these submissions while still keeping the images from the developments down in Haiti - of rape, crime out of starvation, violence etc. I can't help but to feel a bit sick in my gut.
The effect of this action (in terms of bringing in cash for the Haitians) - has a number attached to it = X euro/dollars/pounds. However, as an asset to a persons design curriculum it's an intangible asset, a bonus, an added extra. I don't think anyone deserves this bonus as a result of an action such as donating an artwork for a good cause. It's not noble, because you gain something from it as well - it's not giving, because you receive something back as well. Not X amount of money, but X amount of goodwill.
This is why personally I object to this.
For those of you who give the artwork away, never mention it in their CV or feature it in their design portfolio I apologise - none of this applies to you.
- cbass990
I participated in the So-Cal Fire poster project back in 2007, pretty much the same thing and it was pretty rewarding. They showcased the posters on T.V. and in some museums. Just got word of a printer that's going to print my Haiti posters for free.
- OSFA0
I see what you mean andreasm, but every single company that has donated money, goods, etc, and probably 90% of the people that have donated also, declare these donations when they do their taxes and count them as deductibles. So, they do receive something back.
Are you against musicians who collaborate to raise money through music as well? Most people seem ok with that, I don't understand the difference...
- charitable giving in the states is very different from the rest of the world.kingsteven
- in the UK the charity that you donate to receives the tax you save...kingsteven
- you said it tho... not in the US...OSFA