more about the experience

standard portrait 01 by michael kidwell | Make Your Own Book

"This holiday season, you will be spending a lot of money on gifts for your family and friends, and they will be spending a lot of money on you. What if you used some of that money to help people in the developing world? During the holidays, Mercy Corps offers people a chance to give gifts, like using $70 to buy a goat for a farmer in Zimbabwe, $33 to purchase crickets for an entrepreneur in Indonesia, or $125 to refurbish a classroom in Somalia. To help promote this kind of gift giving, Mercy Corps is asking the GOOD readership to design a poster to help promote the idea. The money that could go to these alternative holiday gifts could improve lives and, in some small way, change the world. Your design of a compelling poster could help accomplish that. Design, at its finest, has a history of driving social change. We hope you can continue in that tradition."

the presentation introducing semiotics and basic imaging (or how to make great pictures) is posted under course documents as "presentation_1." take a look at some of the links under resources.

course documentation CD

the naming convention (form) for the project documentation files is:

i_project_firstlastname_number.jpg

some examples:

i_sins_darrenabbott_03.jpg

i_sports_mikekidwell_01.jpg

i_montage_elmerglue_07.jpg

i_6degrees_happyday_07.jpg