This is quite a cool video from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.

Via Gizmodo

© 2010 Ravi Chandarana. All Rights Reserved

DAHRA (Designers Against Human Rights Abuse) and Glug were proud to present Play.Create, a Christmas party and auction in aid of Barnardos, a UK based Children’s charity.

On Tuesday 15th December, Glug and DAHRA hosted a night full of live music, talks by  John McFaul from McFaul Studio and an auction of 30 unique, signed Munny dolls customised by some of the most prominent graphic and product designers in the industry, as well as some limited edition goodies.

The dolls were customised by 10 graphic designers, 10 product designers and 10 students from Westminster School, London on the theme of Play and Creativity. The full line up was:

Graphic Design
Paula Scher (Pentagram), Joe Shouldice (Sagmeister Inc), Andy Altmann (Why Not Associates), Michael C. Place (Build), Studio Output, ILoveDust, Si Scott, Alberto Cerriteño, Gary Fernandez & Ollie Johns

Product Design
2Creatives, Anthony Dickens Studio, Forpeople, Jam Design, Max Lamb, Patrick Niall, Octo Design, Prajay Parmar, Yiannis Proestos & Rolf Sachs Fun c’tion

& 10 students from Westminster School, London

In total over 450 people attended and £5,000 was raised for Charities. Thanks to everyone for their interest and to those who attended, we really appreciate your support and the night wouldn’t have nearly been as great a success without you.

You can see the individual dolls at: http://play-create.dahra.org

Photography by Ravi Chandarana and Jodie McLean

Photograph by Sara Wasilausky – http://sarawasilausky.com

Those of you who live in NYC are lucky enough to attend the wonderful breakfast lectures (“Creative Mornings”) organised by Tina at Swiss Miss. And boy did they get 2010 off with a bang! Talking about clients, what makes good clients and bad clients, using very ‘tweetable’ aphorisms, Michael Bierut – partner at design agency Pentagram – shares his 30 years of design experience to deliver a truly witty and engaging talk.

You can watch the video below and for more information please visit the Creative Mornings Website. For those in NYC I thoroughly recommend them as there’s no better way of having breakfast!

The wonderful Studio AKA have designed this wonderful advert for BBC’s coverage of the Winter Olympics. For more information read here

Via Motionographer

Nicholas Felton has released his latest version of his infographic based year-in-review reports, which have become something to look forward to every year! Head on over to www.feltron.com for more information and images – as well as to see previous reports filled with aesthetic goodness.

On a personal note, I ordered two of these reports last year and they never arrived, so for those in the UK who want order anything, this maybe something to keep an eye on!

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The Poster Cause Project has released its posters in aid of the Haiti campaign including works from DAHRA members Jon Burgerman, NeuBauBerlin and Build, as well as other artists such as Eboy.

If you’d like to support the please visit the shop as 100% profits go to Doctors Without Borders. More images below:

I found these wonderful posters that Christine Hale, DAHRA contributing member, made from her band, The Hoof and the Heel, and thought I’d share. Head on over to LoveChristine to see more of her work and be sure to check out The Hoof and the Heel’s myspace. I quite liked this video as well:

I stumbled across these letterpress prints by Friend of Type. They’re absolutely gorgeous!

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I know it’s a little later than promised, but welcome to DAHRA’s new website! We’re still updating and working on both the front and back end of the website to bring you new content and features as soon as possible. So watch this space!

The delay has been caused by us having to move to a dedicated server to handle the volume of traffic and size of this new website, and so please bear with us if we experience downtime over the next month or so as we undertake this transition.

DAHRA was created with the aim of becoming a creative tool, not only in terms of ethical design but also in terms of design in general, and today is the first step towards this goal. We will be bringing you daily news and updates from the creative industries focussing, not only on good work, but also on work that does good. Over the next few months we will be updating our resources pages with interviews, reviews, tutorials and useful links as well as increasing our downloadable material.

One major update you will now see is that every member now has their own profile page – so please go back and update all the necessary information. Once we are with a more secure hosting company that can meet our needs, we will be introducing new features including personal portfolio capabilities. This is a very exciting time for us and we hope that you continue to support us and come along for the ride.

This is merely the first step in what looks to be a very exciting and promising 2010 for us!

Best Wishes,

DAHRA Team

Buy one of Mr Bingo’s two new hand silkscreened prints and absolutely every penny of Mr Bingo’s prints goes towards UNICEF’s Haiti Earthquake Children’s Appeal.

Whilst we have been dealing with server troubles, a tragedy has struck Haiti. Our sincerest wishes go to those who have been affected by this tragedy and we encourage to donate as much as you can, as every little helps. You can do so by visiting: UNICEF’s Haiti Earthquake Children’s Appeal.

For those of you interested in reading more about the Earthquake please visit the BBC website or check your local news channel.