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Help Ink Haiyan Relief Prints

Help Ink Haiyan Relief Prints

Courtney • Nov 19, 2013Dec 1, 2013
Update: Two more prints were posted after this post were published. They are now included at the bottom of this post. Check them out! This week Help I...
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Charity: Water India-inspired Posters

Charity: Water India-inspired Posters

Courtney • Sep 16, 2013Dec 1, 2013
For their September campaign, Charity: Water commissioned several designers to create a poster design inspired by India. 100% of the profits from the...
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The Beauty of Letterpress: Rebuild Moore Edition

Courtney • Jun 18, 2013Jun 17, 2013
Today’s newest Beauty of Letterpress launch is “Rebuild Moore,” a print commissioned by Neenah Paper to raise funds for Architecture...
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Help Ink T-Shirts!

Courtney • May 13, 2013
Last week Help Ink launched t-shirts, a welcome addition to their shop. This week’s design, “Never Give Up,” comes to you from desig...
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KNOCK: We Heart Trees

Courtney • May 6, 2013May 5, 2013
Check out We Heart Trees, KNOCK’s 2013 campaign in celebration of Arbor Day, a site that asks users to design their own virtual trees while als...
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Heal Boston

Heal Boston

Courtney • Apr 23, 2013Dec 3, 2013
Designer Richie Stewart just launched Heal Boston, a great project to benefit victims of the Boston Marathon attack. Buy a shirt and all proceeds will...
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Bryan Patrick Todd: Everybody Matters Mural

Courtney • Feb 7, 2013Feb 6, 2013
In my experience, I’ve found that designers are generally a very compassionate group of people. Over the years working on DWL I’ve loved s...
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Mama’s Sauce: Love Letters Collection

Courtney • Dec 20, 2012Dec 20, 2012
In support of the Hamilton Wood Type & Print Museum—if you don’t know about their current struggles, read more here—Mama’s Sauce h...
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Hamilton Wood Type Needs Your Help

Courtney • Nov 21, 2012Nov 20, 2012
Calling all designers and typography afficionados: The incredible Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Wisconsin, needs your help. The owners o...
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Print Aid NYC

Courtney • Nov 19, 2012Nov 18, 2012
Print Aid NYC is an artistic initiative in support of Hurricane Sandy relief. Various NYC-based artists were asked to create a poster design based on...
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#GoVote Campaign

Courtney • Nov 6, 2012Nov 5, 2012
If you frequent Dribbble at all you may have come across quite a few pieces of art created for the #GoVote campaign, an artistic initiative that aimed...
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20×200 for Sandy Update

Courtney • Nov 2, 2012
In addition to Blue Marble—which had raised about $4k as of yesterday—20×200 is also giving you the opportunity to contribute to Hurricane Sa...
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Blue Marble: A Sandy Benefit

Courtney • Nov 1, 2012Nov 1, 2012
I’m taking a little break from regular posting today to focus on the millions of people in our part of the country who have been impacted by Hur...
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Megs Senk: Emergency Compliments

Courtney • Oct 24, 2012
Need a pick-me-up? Well I just might have the answer for you: Emergency Compliments, an altruistic online project from Megs Senk, a designer at W+K 12...
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Ricky Linn for Help Ink: Explore

Courtney • Oct 19, 2012Oct 18, 2012
In case you’re unfamiliar, Help Ink is an altruistic, collaborative site that offers prints and other goods by various artists to benefit char...
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Apartment One: Rock the Vote

Courtney • Sep 28, 2012Sep 28, 2012
Apartment One has teamed up with Rock the Vote to develop and launch this year’s epic youth voter campaign, “We Will.” Here’s ...
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EnsaimadArt Project

Courtney • Sep 12, 2012Sep 11, 2012
EnsaimadArt is a project launched by the Majorca, Spain-based publishing house Infolio to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Amadip.esment, a non-pro...
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Wynwood Walls

Jason • Aug 21, 2012Sep 14, 2012
For the month of August, a series of guests will be filling in on DWL with daily posts. Today’s posts come to you from Jason Johnson who fights...
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Posters from Help Ink

Courtney • Apr 18, 2012Apr 18, 2012
In case you’re unfamiliar with Help Ink (I’ve only briefly mentioned them on DWL before), it is a collaborative site featuring unique ar...
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Allan Peters: Artcrank 2012

Courtney • Apr 3, 2012Apr 3, 2012
Allan Peters designed this poster as part of Artcrank 2012, a Minneapolis-based event that features hand-made, bike-inspired posters created by 40 Tw...
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The Just Love Project

Courtney • Mar 19, 2012Mar 19, 2012
The Just Love Project is a new collaborative initiative based on the resolution of “Just Love.” Each month one poster will be released by...
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Hybrid Design: Impact Campaign

Courtney • Feb 23, 2012Feb 23, 2012
I’m always drawn to great design for a great cause, and Hybrid Design‘s Impact Campaign. The campaign, which is concerned with the soberin...
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Timothy Goodman: Plywood for Good

Courtney • Jul 22, 2011Jul 19, 2011
Timothy Goodman recently collaborated with Luke Bartels to customize a skateboard deck for Collective Good’s recent exhibition, Plywood for Good...
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Help Japan

Courtney • Mar 16, 2011Mar 16, 2011
While it’s easy to feel helpless witnessing the devastation in Japan from afar, there is always some way to contribute. Every bit—however smal...
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GOOD Guide to Education Innovation

Courtney • Jun 9, 2010Jun 9, 2010
In typical GOOD fashion—great ideas plus great design—they’ve put together the GOOD Guide to Education Innovation. This online guide pairs 1...
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Carry Hope

Courtney • May 25, 2010May 25, 2010
Recently, Print Magazine asked 12 designers to design a tote bag to benefit a charity of their choice, and Sawdust’s Contribution, to benefit th...
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A Beautiful Idea

Courtney • Feb 22, 2010Feb 21, 2010
A Beautiful Idea, a new project from the lovely and talented Evie S, aims to make a big impact on the world through art and handmade goods. Through th...
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Design is Love

Courtney • Nov 11, 2009Nov 8, 2009
Design is Love is a gathering place whose goal is to “facilitate meaningful communication amongst designers and those working in the non-profit ...
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Brainstorm Updates

Courtney • Sep 11, 2009Sep 10, 2009
The always awesome Brainstorm has been up to quite a bit since I last posted about them. Most impressively, the design duo has recently worked with Th...
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