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Help Ink Haiyan Relief Prints

Courtney — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:00:52 +0000

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 Ink launched two new prints that will help provide relief to the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan. The two prints are available as 12″ x 16″ giclee […]

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Charity: Water India-inspired Posters

Courtney — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:00:18 +0000

For their September campaign, Charity: Water commissioned several designers to create a poster design inspired by India. 100% of the profits from the poster sales will go towards providing clean water for 100 villages in Orissa, India. You can check out all of the designs and support the cause right here.

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The Beauty of Letterpress: Rebuild Moore Edition

Courtney — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:00:13 +0000

Today’s newest Beauty of Letterpress launch is “Rebuild Moore,” a print commissioned by Neenah Paper to raise funds for Architecture for Humanity in support of #RebuildMoore. The print is the result of a collaboration with the Oklahoma City based studio Ghost. You can pick up one for yourself and support the cause right here. All proceeds will […]

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Help Ink T-Shirts!

Courtney — Mon, 13 May 2013 23:32:14 +0000

Last week Help Ink launched t-shirts, a welcome addition to their shop. This week’s design, “Never Give Up,” comes to you from designer extraordinaire Jon Contino, and as always you can choose which charity your purchase benefits. Get a closer look and pick a tee up for yourself right here. This particular design will be […]

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KNOCK: We Heart Trees

Courtney — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:00:13 +0000

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 also pledging to be more conscious of their paper usage. For every pledge, KNOCK donates one tree to The Canopy Project, an organization that plants trees all over the world. Help them reach […]

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Heal Boston

Courtney — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:00:48 +0000

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 go to The One Fund.

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Bryan Patrick Todd: Everybody Matters Mural

Courtney — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:00:07 +0000

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 seeing and sharing all of the projects designers are initiating on their own to benefit the greater good. So this project by Bryan Patrick Todd immediately caught my eye. As part of […]

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Mama’s Sauce: Love Letters Collection

Courtney — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:00:02 +0000

In support of the Hamilton Wood Type & Print Museum—if you don’t know about their current struggles, read more here—Mama’s Sauce has teamed up with seven designers to create The Love Letters Collection. The collection includes a boxed set of seven typographic, letterpress-printed coaster designs, packaged with paper (also letterpress-printed) provided by French Paper Co. If […]

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Hamilton Wood Type Needs Your Help

Courtney — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:00:32 +0000

Calling all designers and typography afficionados: The incredible Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Wisconsin, needs your help. The owners of their building have given them a short amount of time—approximately 60 days as of now—to vacate the premises. In order to do this, they need to raise $250,000 to pack up all 30,000 […]

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Print Aid NYC

Courtney — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:00:02 +0000

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 the theme of “light.” The media coverage of the hurricane’s impact has sort of dropped off at this point, but there are still many people suffering in the wake of the […]

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#GoVote Campaign

Courtney — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 11:00:40 +0000

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 to encourage citizens to get out and vote in today’s Presidential election. Anything that encourages people to participate in choosing their leaders is a win in my book, […]

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20×200 for Sandy Update

Courtney — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:24:37 +0000

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 Sandy relief through the purchase of Dylan Fareed’s We Are So Good Together letterpress print. From now through Monday, November 5th, 50% of the proceeds from this print will go directly into their […]

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Blue Marble: A Sandy Benefit

Courtney — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:05:22 +0000

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 Hurricane Sandy. We were extremely lucky that we didn’t suffer any damage or power loss, but there are thousands and thousands of people a mere couple of miles away […]

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Megs Senk: Emergency Compliments

Courtney — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:55:12 +0000

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. If the first compliment doesn’t make you feel better, you can keep cycling through the various sentiments until one does the trick. They’re also available in print form from Society […]

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Ricky Linn for Help Ink: Explore

Courtney — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:00:00 +0000

In case you’re unfamiliar, Help Ink is an altruistic, collaborative site that offers prints and other goods by various artists to benefit charitable organizations. They’re about to reach an important milestone of raising $5,000 for organizations around the world, but they need your help to meet and surpass that goal. The site features a wide variety of […]

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Apartment One: Rock the Vote

Courtney — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:00:04 +0000

Apartment One has teamed up with Rock the Vote to develop and launch this year’s epic youth voter campaign, “We Will.” Here’s a bit about their thinking: As voting rights are under attack in states across the country, the We Will campaign is aggressively optimistic, highlighting the war on voting, while reminding young people of […]

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EnsaimadArt Project

Courtney — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:00:46 +0000

EnsaimadArt is a project launched by the Majorca, Spain-based publishing house Infolio to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Amadip.esment, a non-profit focused on improving the lives of those with intellectual disabilities and their families. The project calls for the design of round labels found on the octagonal boxes of Majorca’s most famous pastry, the Ensaïmada. Below is […]

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Wynwood Walls

Jason — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:00:20 +0000

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 the good fight as an Art Director/Designer at TunnelBravo. For more from Jason, check out his portfolio or shots on Dribbble. The Wynwood Walls project was started by Tony Goldman in 2009 as […]

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Posters from Help Ink

Courtney — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:00:02 +0000

In case you’re unfamiliar with Help Ink (I’ve only briefly mentioned them on DWL before), it is a collaborative site featuring unique artwork created by various designers and artists, which are sold in the form of prints, mounted posters, tees and stationery. Each piece is associated with a designated charity, to which at least 40% of each […]

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Allan Peters: Artcrank 2012

Courtney — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:00:55 +0000

Allan Peters designed this poster as part of Artcrank 2012, a Minneapolis-based event that features hand-made, bike-inspired posters created by 40 Twin Cities artists. His piece grew out of a love for “badges, crests and vintage type lock-ups” and inspiration from the vintage air museum he recently visited in Alabama (read more about his process here), resulting in […]

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The Just Love Project

Courtney — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:00:44 +0000

The Just Love Project is a new collaborative initiative based on the resolution of “Just Love.” Each month one poster will be released by a designer from a carefully curated list of contributors. All profits from the project go directly to the charity Hello Somebody, which “exists to feed and educate children in order to break the […]

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Hybrid Design: Impact Campaign

Courtney — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:00:04 +0000

I’m always drawn to great design for a great cause, and Hybrid Design‘s Impact Campaign. The campaign, which is concerned with the sobering statistic that traffic accidents are the leading killer of teens, aimed to engage those in that age group through interactive pieces that speak to them in their language. As part of the […]

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Timothy Goodman: Plywood for Good

Courtney — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:00:47 +0000

Timothy Goodman recently collaborated with Luke Bartels to customize a skateboard deck for Collective Good’s recent exhibition, Plywood for Good. A group of artists and designers were asked to create a skateboard deck that expresses their thoughts on the recent devastation in Japan, all in the name of charity, with all proceeds going to the […]

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Help Japan

Courtney — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:20:49 +0000

While it’s easy to feel helpless witnessing the devastation in Japan from afar, there is always some way to contribute. Every bit—however small—helps. And once again the design community has come together to show an outpouring of support. Here are just a few of the products that have cropped up whose proceeds will directly benefit […]

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GOOD Guide to Education Innovation

Courtney — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:30:37 +0000

In typical GOOD fashion—great ideas plus great design—they’ve put together the GOOD Guide to Education Innovation. This online guide pairs 10 profiles with fun illustrations by Parliament of Owls.

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Carry Hope

Courtney — Tue, 25 May 2010 12:00:18 +0000

Recently, Print Magazine asked 12 designers to design a tote bag to benefit a charity of their choice, and Sawdust’s Contribution, to benefit the British Heart Foundation, was selected as the winner. According to the designers, the design was “a play on the word BEAT, communicating – to beat heart disease – with a type […]

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A Beautiful Idea

Courtney — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:00:34 +0000

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 the site, a network of artists will commit to create exclusive products whose entire proceeds go to charity. I personally think this is an amazing idea. There […]

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Design is Love

Courtney — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:00:26 +0000

Design is Love is a gathering place whose goal is to “facilitate meaningful communication amongst designers and those working in the non-profit sector”, which sounds like an amazing idea to me. Their full website is still in the works, so for now you can follow them on Facebook, or support them by purchasing a poster […]

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Brainstorm Updates

Courtney — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:30:11 +0000

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 The Rugh Family Workshop on a series of posters. Started by Jamie and Jeffrey Rugh, the poster-making workshop was created for their children in an effort to “promote awareness, […]

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