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The Street Vendor Project is a membership based project that has 2000 plus vendor members who are working together in supporting and protecting vendor rights in New York City. In support of this organization, I designed a poster specifically highlighting food vendors and the importance/value that they bring within our city. In the "city that never sleeps", food vendors are often the ones that are there for us anytime we need a quick bite no matter what the day/night brings.

It is with this reason that I chose the tagline "NYC runs on Vendor Power" as a friendly reminder to my fellow New Yorker's, how much vendors play a part in each of our daily lives.

To learn more about our street vendors and the Street Vendor Project, go to: http://streetvendor.org

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My name is Caitlin Dailey and my poster is about reforestation. The organization I chose to advocate for is Eden Reforestation Projects.

Eden Reforestation Projects works alongside local communities in Haiti, Madagascar. Ethiopia, Brazil, among others, to help produce, plant, and protect tens of million trees every month in an effort to help mitigate climate change. Their efforts help create jobs, and restore and support these communities economically, long-term. Working in these remote settings is challenging due to the extreme weather, landslides, and wild animals, but is vital in order to restore these communities. As ERP says, “It takes a village to raise a forest.” Please join our village and help. To learn more please go to: https://www.edenprojects.org

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How Many Would Perish presentation by Logan Butler

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How Many Would Perish presentation by Logan Butler

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Start Thinking Zebras presentation by Masha Potemkin

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Start Thinking Zebras presentation by Masha Potemkin

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Vision Impairments presentation by Elizabeth Sheehy

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Vision Impairments presentation by Elizabeth Sheehy

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Help Pollinators presentation by Aimy Ulmer

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Help Pollinators presentation by Aimy Ulmer

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My campaign is focused on the Ehlers-Danlos Society. The Ehlers-Danlos Society is an organization whose goal is to spread awareness and further research about the Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes.

Ehlers-Danlos is a rare and under-diagnosed connective tissue disorder which affects the joints, blood vessels, eyes and skin. It can lead to frequent and easy joint dislocations, frequent bleeding and bruising, as well as a myriad of other side effects. There are 13 types of Ehlers-Danlos, some more rare than others, their prevalence ranging from 1 in 5000 to 1 in 20,000, to 1 in almost 1,000,000 depending on the type.

Many medical professionals are told the old saying “when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras” meaning doctors should consider more common conditions when  diagnosing patients. A lot of illness hallmarks overlap, and something very common can have the same symptoms as rare conditions. This has lead to an almost complete lack of testing for rare conditions, and patients are left for years wondering if it is all in their head, with years spent switching doctors in search of answers.

Design-wise, I wanted my poster to have a call to action. I want to help spread awareness and prompt medical professionals to, once again, Start Thinking Zebras.

To learn more about Ehlers-Danlos, and how to help, go to: https://www.ehlers-danlos.com

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The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

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The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

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Quantifying the destruction of a nuclear war is difficult; the human brain is not built to comprehend such numbers. In turn, the goal of this project was to express the human impact as plainly and as typographically as possible in poster format.

Within the image created by using text in my poster there are 1,833 names. If you were to print a poster containing the names of everyone who’d be lost in a nuclear war, you would need to print 2,727,769 posters. With the size of each poster being 17”x 22”, those posters would cover a quarter of a square mile of surface area, approximately the area between 6th and 7th avenues, from 14th street to 42nd street in New York City.

The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing and eventually eliminating the threats posed by nuclear, chemical and biological weapons through Congressional engagement and public education.

To learn more about the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, and to make a donation, please go to: https://armscontrolcenter.org

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Reject Cyber Violence presentation by Xiaoda (Jason) Liu

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Reject Cyber Violence presentation by Xiaoda (Jason) Liu

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The inspiration for my poster comes from the quote: ”language has its power, words are like a bullet”. My goal is to help the public realize how this quote has become more powerful through our internet usage, and our current social media. The damage that cyber bullying caused can be huge and unforgettable, both emotionally and mentally, sometimes even physically.

The text circle below is created as the main visual of this poster. It is made by using non-respectful words that you can easily be found everywhere on internet. It also works as a simulation of a “bullet hole” caused by cyber bullying. The words creating the spiral like hole are reversed to show as that as an outsider, or even an attacker, they usually don’t understand, and have the the same feeling as the victim due to different perspective.

The url under the title directs the viewer to Stop Bullying, an official website of the United States government, and the affiliated organization that provides  information about what bullying is, what cyber bullying is, and how to prevent and respond to bullying. People can contact this online agency for help.

For more information, or to make a donation, please got to: https://www.stopbullying.gov

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Posters For a Cause is a project that cultivates an environment in which advocacy and social responsibility can thrive through creative messaging, and where by utilizing skills learned in class, each student is tasked with designing a poster that conveys strong, compelling messaging to raise awareness and funds for a cause of their choice.

This semester’s show, In Character: Visual Appeals in text and letterforms, focuses on designing only with type, pushing boundaries where creativity and skill, mixed with social responsibility and thinking outside of the box allows students to produce unique, creative, and engaging work meant to compel the viewer to take action bringing about social change.

Many thanks to Pratt Institute and the AAS/AOS department for their continued support, and to Betty Bakery for their generosity in providing us a space to exhibit this important project.

Please take a look through the posters, learn about the students’ causes, and take action.