Occupy – Kristen Baumlier

Occupy Design is a grassroots project that connects designers with demonstrators in the Occupy Together movement. The goal of the project is to create freely available visual graphics around a common graphic language to unite the 99%. A common set of used universal icons, logistical signs, and infographics can help support the communication of the movement’s messages and the data surrounding them across the world.

The Occupy Design site has a gallery of existing designs, a how-to guide for demonstrators, a graphic toolkit for designer who want to contribute graphics for the project and a interactive form for the community to suggest ideas for designers.

The project was created in less than 24 hours in October by a team of designers, programmers, artists, and demonstrators in San Francisco as part of three concurrent creative hackathons across the country to support Occupy Together. During the planning process, the team spoke with demonstrators who described their needs. The three main areas of the project are infographic protest signs, logistical signs, and visual icons around social justice themes. The focus on infographics is to support bringing graphic representation of statistical evidence to the front and center on the ground – rather than just on computer screens.

Currently the magazine/website GOOD has partnered with Occupy Design to encourage designers to create a design, icon, or infographic that shares the unifying spirit of the Occupy movement. Individuals and organizations can participate.

All submitted designs will be voted on by the online community. $750 from the GOOD Fund will be used to support Occupy Design to print and distribute the winning design, and the winner will receive their design printed on a vinyl weatherproof sign, several 11×17 prints, and get an Occupy Design t-shirt.

In addition, you can download the Occupy Design Design Toolkit which includes digital templates, logos, and fonts.

Are you a designer and part of the 99%? Take some time today and get working on a graphic for Occupy Design today.

Image Source:
Occupy Design

Links:

Occupy Guide for Designers

Occupy Design

Call to Design: The GOOD + Occupy Design Challenge

Occupy Together

The Stretch Your paycheck Performance came to the 1 pm Rally in Public Square to support Occupy Cleveland, a movement which supports protesting against corporate greed and the Occupy Wall Street.

There were members of labor groups, nurses, artists, and other citizens and activists at the event. At the rally Deb Klein gave a great speech and and said that, “Cleveland is the third poorest city in the U.S.”

Hip hop artist Loki performed some songs. His songs roused the crowd. Some of his songs were about the recession, money, and other social issues.

People had signs and flags that said We are the 99%! My friend Tony and had umbrellas that said “Stretching my paycheck. 99%” – that we would hold up when we were not doing the paycheck performance.

I met some interesting people including a man involved with Occupy Pittsburgh who came to Cleveland to see how the Occupy event was going, a man who recently moved to Cleveland and does performance art, and some activists from the Cleveland area.

Pictures from the Stretch Your Paycheck interactive performance can be seen and downloaded at http://stretchpaycheck.tumblr.com/

About Occupy Cleveland: http://occupycleveland.com/

Check out Loki’s music: Loki – Chilling in the Moment album

Kristen Baumlier

Tag: Occupy

Occupy Design – Building a Visual Language for the 99 Percent

Stretch Your Paycheck – at Occupy Cleveland