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19.04.2011

Hopenhagen: Design Activism as an Oxymoron

Abstract for the Design History Society conference Design Activism and Social Change. See blog for more pictures and links: http://ecolabs.posterous.com/

Hopenhagen was an initiative by the International Advertising Association in support of the United Nations at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP-15) in Copenhagen December 2009. The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon UN asked for help from t…

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19.04.2011

Based in or near London? Come to Visual Camp! Far away? Vote on best Project!

Create visuals that communicate policy issues/scenarios in really compelling ways.

10th May between 5-9pm, London.

Visual Camp - vote on projects: http://bit.ly/e6MEV4

Visual Camp- register to come: http://visualcamp.eventbrite.com/

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15.04.2011

See you at the Workshop!

It was not a easy decision to make. To many participants submitted good work to this year’s festival, too many of you we would like to work with in our workshop. However, we had to make a decision. Workshop mentors: Tony Credland, Sandy Kaltenborn, Shoaib Nabi, Alain Bieber, Jason Grant and myself were first discussing criteria than we selected separate lists and in the end one list of twenty p…

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25.03.2011

WHAT U WANT FOR ME TO BE

LOVE UNTIL WE BLEED.
IT IS PAIN/FUL, IT IS ALSO PAINT.

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30.01.2011

Mapping Socially responsive communication workshop- experimental geography.

Not long ago i announced that part of Memefest award will be a invitation to participate in the special workshop titled Mapping Socially responsive communication in June 2011.

http://www.memefest.org/en/memeblog/2011/01/memefest-awards-mapping-socially-responsive-communication-workshop/?showme=1

Many of you have shown great interest to participate in this and we are very much looking forwar…

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21.01.2011

Se extiende la recepción de trabajos hasta el 25 de Enero !!

Hola camaradas. Estamos muy contentos porque hemos recibido inspiradores trabajos de alrededor del planeta.
Sin embargo, nos llegaron muchos pedidos para extender la fecha de entrega. Somos felices de escuchar a nuestra comunidad. Así que.. vamos a esperar por tus maravillosos trabajos hasta el 25 de ENERO!

Si tienes preguntas relacionadas con tus trabajos no dudes en preguntar.

También re…

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21.01.2011

Deadline for submissions is EXTENDED till January 25th!

Hi Comrades. We are excited to say that we have received inspirational works from around the Globe. Some of them are just brilliant!
However, many requests arrived asking for extension of deadline. We are happy to listen to our community. So... we will wait for your wonderful works till JANUARY 25th!

If you have any questions regarding your submissions don't hesitate to ask!

We recommend…

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17.01.2011

MEME POSTERS in LJUBLJANA

Meme posters visiting Metelkova mesto, a legendary alternative place in Ljubljana and the dashboard at the entrance of Student organization in Ljubljana.

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02.01.2011

Memefest Awards- Mapping Socially Responsive Communication Workshop

This might come as a surprise, but most of so called »socially engaged« communication is either not effective or even counterproductive. Why? The main reason is that such communication is conceived in the same way as marketing communication for a product or service. The difference is content, but the perspective from which such communication starts and the dynamics it produces in the public spher…

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22.12.2010

Memefest posters arround the World!

UPDATE 13.1. 2011. Added are photos (last 4) from posters in Belgrade.

We are very excited to show you first photos from our posters in the streets of various Cities from around the World.

Following are Memefest LOVE:CONFLICT:IMAGINATION posters that are right now hanging in the streets of Brisbane, Belgrade and Rio de Janeiro. We will update this post with other places whenever we get new …