Green Patriot Posters
This weekend, I had the opportunity to check out the fourth installation of the National Design Triennial at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (a Smithsonian Institution) in New York City.
The exhibition, called Why Design Now? (on exhibit through January 9, 2011), features contemporary concepts or objects designed to alleviate a particular social or environmental concern. Items on display include a compact public bike rack, plans for a hotel powered by water (and appropriately called a H2Otel), solar panels shaped to blend into a barrel-tile roof, and many other successful and prototypical design objects.
Some of the items seemed a bit too outlandish to ever be successful in a mass market while others seemed, well, too expensive. But one item on display, a Green Patriot Poster, caught my eye both for its creativity and its price – It’s free.
The Cooper-Hewitt website explains that part of what makes Green Patriot Posters so innovative is that the “project invites any designer or concerned citizen to upload posters to its Web site.”
Green Patriot Posters, produced by Canary Project 2010, presents “Posters for Energy Independence and the Fight Against Climate Change.” Designed to evoke the feel of WWII-era government propaganda, Green Patriot Posters are educational and clever. And, best of all, they’re free to download. My favorite is the “EnvironMEANT TO Do List” (“Do it. Don’t just meant to do it.”). But so many of the posters are fun and would be perfect for classroom use (or, at the very least, as computer desktop wallpaper).
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September 28th, 2010
Recycle, Conserve, Learn, Impact, Protect and care. Are these the true keys to living green?
That sounds like a cool exhibit to attend. While many of the ideas will not become mass manufactured products, many of them with spawn other ideas. All of these ideas can act as inspiration for others to take the next step.
Recycle means you are saving something for the future. Human race is consuming resources very fast.
Hotel powered by water? That’s pretty impressive!
-Jean
I’ve said that least 1022189 times. The problem this like that is they are just too compilcated for the average bird, if you know what I mean