Making the Invisible Visible: A Genius Idea From a Bookstore
This bookstore found a clever way to show the invisibility of women in literature.
How Can Posters Change the World?
What is Cultural or Social Poster Design? How will poster design impact the world? Can designers communicate and change the world? What are the principles for a good poster design to be effective? These are questions that many designers are seeking answers for answers. We have seen lately resurgence of new fresh blood designers, who…
This PFLAG Campaign in Schools Comes With Hidden Message
Great example of how to use innovative technology to catch young people’s attention! From the Advocate PFLAG Toronto has come up with a way of getting its message to schools — at least to those who know how to read it. The group’s innovative new campaign uses posters that reveal a hidden pro-LGBT message only when students…
Best of 2015
The laureates of the 2015 Creative Activist Awards can provide inspiration for your next campaign.
Poster Art and LGBT Organising
Poster Art Poster — noun a large printed picture, notice, or advertisement displayed in a public place. Over the past century, posters have been used as an effective tool for raising awareness about causes, changing public perceptions, persuading people to form an opinion and take a stand on varying subject, and motivating people to…
Graffiti: A Powerful Artistic Form of Resistance
Graffiti as Resistance Graffiti was originally ascribed to etchings or drawings on public surfaces. From Ancient Egyptians, Romans, and Greeks graffiti has existed from antiquity. While the subject of political art is contested as some say that art can exist outside of the political sphere, if we refer to the feminist belief which was highly…
The Power of Drag Activism
From The Advocate In 1971, the day before the U.K. Gay Liberation Front planned to hold London’s first official Pride march, half a dozen radical drag activists took it upon themselves to run a dress rehearsal. It was a resounding success, one which saw them chased down Oxford Street by the metropolitan police. Over a…
Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words?
Photography as a Form of Artistic Resistance As LGBTQ rights make bigger and bigger grounds every year in the fight against discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race, class, and all the ways these identities intersect – photography has been a useful tool towards putting a face to those that went around unseen. Some…
Holding Hands Against Hate
From human chains to hand-holding flash mobs, the power of human touch could be the missing piece in your next campaign.
Chip In With a Potato
In Australia, students made a giant rainbow flag made out of 1,000 potatoes.