ADC Gallery, 106 West 29th Street, NYC
United Stated of America
2 October 2008
The past two Designism events at the Art Directors Club in NYC have been provocative, maddening, fun, profane, and enlightening. This year, ADC presents version 3.0 of the annual event.
The third annual gathering of leading creatives committed to social activism and instigating change through media. The evening promises controversy, conversation and includes a moderated debate, lightening round presentations and the launch of a new support system to help put ideas into action.
This evening opens with Sappi's "Ideas that Matter" Exhibition featuring creative ideas of designers who have answered the call for change.
Sappi believes that creative ideas have an impact far beyond the design world and that ideas can be a powerful force for social good. The exhibition features Ideas that Matter grant recipients� work created over the nine-year life of this program. Ideas that Matter was established in 1999 by Sappi to support and transform the creative ideas of designers into a powerful force for the social good.
Since the program began, over 225 projects have been funded for a total of more than $8 million. Few of these projects are large or well-known yet all represent good design working to make a difference for the people they touch.
A Designsim Manifesto delivered by Allan Chochinov, Core77, is followed by IDEO who will share three design-driven projects that initiated change.
Six creatives present forward-thinking projects, and their results, in lightening speed, TAXI, Brainforest, MendeDesign, Avenue A|Razorfish, lettera27, and World Studio. Steven Heller moderates a discussion on the design of politics between two online news editors and ADC introduces its ingenious new tool to support the creative activist community.
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