Projects tagged
Print & Design
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Diagram of the “Brookes” Slave Ship
Read more: Diagram of the “Brookes” Slave ShipThis diagram of the ‘Brookes’ slave ship is probably the most widely copied and powerful image used by the abolitionist campaigners. It depicts the ship loaded to its full capacity – 454 people crammed into the hold.The ‘Brookes’ sailed the…
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How do you get to Flushing Creek?
Read more: How do you get to Flushing Creek?Flushing Creek is so hidden by industrial sites and highways, it’s almost invisible to those passing through the Flushing neighborhood of Queens. “I lived in Flushing my whole life and didn’t know that I lived near waterways until I was…
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A Presidential Parody
Read more: A Presidential ParodyNEW YORK, Ny., Nov 19, 2018 – Two artists, Actress/Creator/Native New Yorker Maia Lorian and collaborator veteran NYC Street Artist Abe Lincoln Jr. bring to you “A Presidential Parody.” In a nation that seems to place higher value on the…
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Tournons le dos ! / Turn our back ! [April 22, 2012 – April 23, 2017]
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Read more: Tournons le dos ! / Turn our back ! [April 22, 2012 – April 23, 2017]In France, abstention, vote of protest, lassitude or violent reactions rise from all over the crisis of our “representative democracy ». What about thinking the other way round ? What if we reappropriate the iconography of the election? With Turn…
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refuge for refugees
Read more: refuge for refugeesTwo design students were awarded the Futurapolis prize last Wednesday for their project to adapt the Furan (underground river) , a response to the migration crisis. Winners of the Futurapolis prize, which aims to encourage students to work on sustainable…
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I HAVE A DREAM – Roman Subway Map
Read more: I HAVE A DREAM – Roman Subway MapTic Edizioni, Roman publishing house, has created “I Have a Dream”, a fake map of the Rome subway. In addition to the existing A and B lines, a dozen imaginary subway lines have been added: there are metro stops in…
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Street Advertising Takeover – Artist turns billboards into democratic spaces
Read more: Street Advertising Takeover – Artist turns billboards into democratic spaces“Two weekends ago, a loose network of these artists and activists, under the name Subvertisers International, launched their first global effort to reclaim our shared public environment from its monopolization by commercial media. The demand was not for better or…
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Hypothetical Development Corporation
Read more: Hypothetical Development Corporation“As a public service, H.D.O. invents a hypothetical future for each selected structure. Unlike a traditional, reality-based developer, however, our organization is not bound by rules relating to commercial potential, practical materials, or physics. In our view, plausibility is a…
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Orixás
Read more: OrixásImagine if back in the 1960s, creators Jack Kirby and Stan Lee had found inspiration for The Avengers in Yoruba mythology. Instead of Iron Man, we’d have the warrior Oxaguiã. Taking the place of the blue-eyed, blonde-haired Norse god Thor…
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Printing a Revolution: The Posters of Paris ’68
Read more: Printing a Revolution: The Posters of Paris ’68During the major strikes and student uprisings in France that year, the École des Beaux-Arts turned itself into a workshop for revolutionary messages. PARIS — Fifty years ago, almost to the day, students here began to strike over the rigidity…