Previously few years, the world has skilled speedy, destabilizing shifts that present no signal of slowing down. It’s highlighted the necessity for deep, systemic change to many elements of on a regular basis life, and design continues to be some of the thrilling methods to answer this alteration.
In 2022, because the world entered the third yr of the pandemic, PRINT launched a free-to-enter Citizen Design class to acknowledge the work and demanding considering that designers convey to problems with social justice, neighborhood intervention, sustainability, and human rights throughout points and borders. This yr, after witnessing the erosion of voting rights and democracy all through the USA and all over the world, the Citizen Design class will honor work designed to guard these essential freedoms for us all.
“2022 was a essential yr for Democracy. Voting rights have been— and proceed to be— challenged. Design has a task to play— making certain that residents perceive how and the place to vote and methods to take part of their democracies. The 2023 Citizen Design class is open to designers who’ve created print and on-line campaigns designed to guard freedom.” —Steve Heller, Editor-at-Massive
We couldn’t be extra excited to listen to your tales! However earlier than you enter, study all in regards to the fascinating backgrounds of the judges who will have a look at your work.
Allan Chochinov
Chair — SVA MFA Merchandise of Design; Companion — Core77 Inc.
Allan Chochinov is a author, educator, and critic passionate in regards to the expansive potential of design. He’s a fixture at workshops and conferences devoted to the medium and has spoken in regards to the topic at quite a lot of storied establishments just like the Yale College of Administration, MIT, the Columbia College of Enterprise, and Carnegie Mellon. Allan’s expertise in schooling expands to New York’s College of Visible Arts, the place he’s a founding chair of the Merchandise of Design MFA graduate program. He’s additionally a associate of Core77, a design web site devoted to informing and connecting creatives all over the world.
Louise Sandhaus
Co-Director and Founder — The Individuals’s Graphic Design Archive
Louise Sandhaus has collected many hats in her profession as a graphic designer, educator, and archivist. This knowledgeable on the design of her residence state of California teaches at CalArts and wrote a e book in regards to the state’s visible tradition entitled Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires and Riots. She can be the founder and co-director of The Individuals’s Graphic Design Archive, a crowd-sourced archive that goals to make design accessible and bolster its unsung heroes. Study extra in regards to the challenge in our latest interview with Louise about what impressed the archive, her imaginative and prescient for its future, and the way the general public can assist it.
Lisa Grant
Senior Mission Manager — Wasserman
Lisa Grant is a model fanatic and cultural anthropologist immensely interested in manufacturers, shopper habits, rising developments, their collective factors of intersection and the way they’re visually articulated. After serving because the Senior Mission Supervisor at Pentagram NY, Lisa not too long ago joined Wasserman, a culture-centric company serving the very best athletes, artists, manufacturers & properties on the earth. She and her knowledgeable workforce work to determine enduring connections between manufacturers and audiences throughout sports activities, music, and leisure.
In search of inspiration? Final yr, VICE Media took residence First Place with Gender Spectrum, a beautiful assortment of inventory photographs that heart the members of trans, non-binary, and gender nonconforming communities.
Do you assume you’re our subsequent Citizen Design winner? Step proper up and check out your luck as many instances as you want! We are able to’t wait to see what you’ve obtained.
