Design as a Force for Good

"While design is too often used as a means to persuade us to buy, buy and buy some more, it is less often but more importantly used as a means to communicate positive messages and encourage action. Here we showcase 23 examples where graphic design has been used not to sell us products we don't need, but instead, to fight poverty." - Danny Outlaw


( 23 Awesome Examples of Design as a Force for Good )


( Danny Outlaw's Blog )

Stand Up, Take Action

http://standup.sg

It might seem insignificant, especially when it's done so peacefully.

But it's pressure - from an entire nation (Singapore) that happens to be an economically (and probably politically) influential country.

Pressure works only when there's sufficient input strength.

The strength comes from people.

This is elegance

www.loftcube.net

Woah. Seriously.

This is concept.

This is beauty.

This is poise.

This is elegance.

This is grace.

This is evidence that beauty can be austerely unadorned, instead of sophistically embellished.

Apartment Therapy

www.apartmenttherapy.com

Great tips and exemplars of well-designed homes.

When I took up the cross

I died to myself.

Always With Me

Soundtrack from 'Spirited Away'

Somewhere, a voice calls, in the depths of my heart
May I always be dreaming, the dreams that move my heart
So many tears of sadness, uncountable through and through
I know on the other side of them I'll find you

Everytime we fall down to the ground we look up to the blue sky above
We wake to it's blueness, as for the first time
Though the road is long and lonely and the end far away, out of sight
I can with these two arms embrace the light

As I bid farewell my heart stops, in tenderness I feel
My silent empty body begins to listen to what is real
The wonder of living, the wonder of dying
The wind, town, and flowers, we all dance one unity

Somewhere a voice calls in the depths of my heart
Keep dreaming your dreams, don't ever let them part
Why speak of all your sadness or of life's painfull woes
Instead let the same lips sing a gentle song for you

The whispering voice, we never want to forget,
In each passing memory always there to guide you
When a miror has been broken, shattered pieces scattered on the ground
Glimpses of new life, reflected all around

Window of beginning, stillness, new light of the dawn
Let my silent, empty body be filled and reborn
No need to search outside, nor sail across the sea
Cause here shining inside me, it's right here inside me

I've found a brightness, it's always with me