What we can learn from california’s attempt to label GMOs.
what we can learn from california’s attempt to label GMOs. genetically modified food labeling initiative a.k.a. prop 37. via grist [RK]
Israeli military pursues enemies and designers reach out on facebook.
Two married Israeli graphic designers, worried over war between Iran and Israel create an Internet campaign with a slogan that you can impose over a picture of your choice.
The skeptics are quick to apply the slogan first. There are many similar responses.
But soon a flow of other responses surface.
The designers, Ronnie Edri and Michal Tamir, say they have received hundreds of private messages from Iranians saying they were deeply moved by the campaign. Not sure how viral it is but it is a story picked up by some mass media. [ +972 mag ] [ new york times ]
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California bans plastic bags.
california lawmakers have voted to ban single-use plastic bags at supermarket checkout stands.
via Good [RK]
Time's top 10 of everything. 2009
the highs and the lows of the past year in 50 wide-ranging categories. [RK]
U.S. national design policy initiative in 2010.
voting deadline, december 9, 2009.
december 9, 2009 deadline for you to help select policy proposals for the U.S. National Design Policy Initiative in 2010 via U.S. NDPI
resources:
summit 09 poll
helpful info explaining the importance of design to non-designers
PCAH. What we do. Who we are.
PICAH. what we do. who we are.
committee mission
Established in 1982, the committee’s mission is to work with organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities to encourage partnerships between the public and private sector on cultural projects. The committee also seeks to initiate and support cultural programs, according to its official website.
committee appointees
J. Ricky Arriola
Madeleine Harris Berman
Richard J. Cohen, Member
Paula Hannaway Crown
Christine Forester
Teresa Heinz
Victoria Strauss Kennedy
Bryan Lourd
Anne Luzzatto
Yo-Yo Ma
Liz Manne
Thom Mayne
Edward Norton
Sarah Jessica Parker
Andy Spahn
Jill Cooper Udall
Reginald Van Lee
Agnes Varis
Kerry Washington
Alexa L. Wesner
Forest Whitaker
Anna Wintour
Damian Woetzel
George C. Wolfe
Alfre Woodard
[for committee appointee details]
[president’s committee for arts and humanities]
[artforum] | [unbeige]
Designing obama.
A 360-page book is full-color and hardbound, documents the innovative presidential via art and design. Scott Thomas, design director of the Obama campaign, has collaborated with artists and designers to create Designing Obama, a chronicle of the art from the historic campaign. Forewords written by Steven Heller and Michael Bierut. Follow on twitter. Funding help via Kickstarter also…The art of an election. 2008. [RK]
The obamas install johns in white house.
Johns installed in white house. ruscha, diebenkorn, and rauschenberg. via wsj and @whitneymuseum [PR]
Gehry to design eisenhower memorial.
Congress created the Eisenhower Commission in 1999 to plan and raise money for the memorial. Frank Gehry to design it. via portfolio.com [PR]
Obama grants $2.3 billion for electric cars.
U.S. electric vehicles get big boost. Spain is shooting for a million electric vehicles by 2012. via huffington post [PR]