Thursday, September 25, 2008

Making Policy Public



Making Policy Public / The Center for Urban Pedagogy


CUP's new series of fold-out posters uses innovative graphic design to explore and explain public policy. Making Policy Public is published twice a year, and each poster is the product of a commissioned collaboration between a designer and an advocate.

How It Works

While the effects of public policy are widespread, the discussions around these policies are anything but. This series aims to make information on public policy truly public: accessible, meaningful, and shared. By calling on designers to work with advocates to find new ways to make policy public, CUP aims to add vitality to crucial debates about our future. Making Policy Public facilitates new collaborations across the fields of design, education, and public policy by creating opportunities for designers to engage social issues without sacrificing experimentation and for organizations to better reach their constituencies through design.

Download 2008 Policy Briefs

The Cargo Chain



The Cargo Chain is an organizing tool for longshore workers that shows the players and pressure points in today’s globalized shipping network. How do commodities get from factory to shopping mall? Who really has the power to move today’s global economy? This pamphlet was produced through a collaboration between the Longshore Workers Coalition, Labor Notes (a quarterly journal of labor journalism and research), cartographer Bill Rankin, and the graphic design office Thumb.

Social Security Risk Machine



Social Security Risk Machine explains the mechanics of this “social machine”: how it works, why it was created, where the money comes from and where it goes. Most importantly, the poster shows the many adjustments that can be made to keep the machine running. This poster was written by Sam Stark and designed by David Reinfurt and Damon Rich.

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Understanding the Farm Bill / Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)



The U.S. Farm Bill leaves a huge footprint on the U.S. and the world. As Washington gears up for the debate, IATP analyzes what's at stake.

Via Social Design Notes and IATP's Ag Observatory

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

A Call To Farms / Midwest Radical Culture Corridor



A CALL TO FARMS: Continental Drift through the Midwest Radical Culture Corridor

Featuring the words of Claire Pentecost, Jessica Lawless and Sarah Ross, Lisa Bralts-Kelly, Brett Bloom and Bonnie Fortune, Ryan Griffis, Mike Wolf, Martha Boyd and Naomi Davis, Rebecca Zorach, Nicolas Lampert, The Langby Family, Eric Haas, Sarah Holm, Brian Holmes, Dan S. Wang, mIEKAL aND, and Sarah Kanouse

FREE Download (PDF)

Designed by The Heavy Duty Press, offset printed at Bookmobile
8.5 x 6.75", 60 pages plus cover, first printing: 500 copies, $10
Available soon at the Heavy Duty Etsy Store.

MRCC & Continental Drift Resources

MRCC Blog

MRCC Drift @ Flickr

"The Midwest Radical Cultural Corridor in the Recent Past and the Distant Futures" / Brian Holmes

"Finding, Being the Radical Midwest" / Dan S. Wang

The MRCC Schedule

Continental Drift & 16Beaver

"Songs of Returning, Both Silent and Aloud" (The Domestic Struggle Part Threee) @ Art of This
Minneapolis, Minnesota
August 23 - September 7, 2008

"The Audacity Of Desperation"
Urbana, Illinois
May 7 - June 15, 2008