For a limited time if you order 10 copies or more of the Green Patriot Posters book for gifts or giveaways we can give give you a 50% discount off of the list price.  So that is 50 posters for $15.  If interested please contact info@greenpatriotposters.org. ASAP.  Limited time!

Green Patriot Posters is honored to be included in the upcoming show Graphic Design: Now in Production, which will be at the Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis, MN) October 22, 2011 – January 22, 2012 and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum (New York, NY) in the Summer of 2012.

Creative Migration, a not-for-profit organization that produces documentary films promoting socially engaged art projects, is undertaking a short documentary of Green Patriot Posters.  The doc will focus on our bus kisok campaign in San Francisco with LoudSauce.  They have a great start and already been accepted at festivals, but your support is needed to finish the film!  Please support their Kickstarter campaign here. Only 3 days left!  This will help us spread the word tremendously.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Video from 350.org’s US Chamber campaign.  Artist: Kevin Buckland.

How can visual artists capture a phenomenon that’s extremely rapid in geological time but slow in human time? Polish visual artist Marek Ranis takes a stab at it with his simple but memorable three minute video “Hold On.”  The video  juxtaposes footage of NASCAR racing with Northern Greenland’s disappearing glaciers. Along with the work of four international artists, the video is currently on exhibition at Gallery Maskara in Mumbai, India until July 3rd.

“What are you looking at?…  No, I don’t think we need to change our logo…  What the fuck do you know about it?  This logo has worked for 100 years.  So we’ll stick to making paint and money and you can stick to whining.  Ok?  How about that?”

Posters give us an opportunity to be direct and inspirational.  That is why we founded Green Patriot Posters and why we recently published a book (Metropolis Books in association with Environmental Defense Fund and The Canary Project, 2010; Thames & Hudson in the UK).

50 detachable and ready-to-hang posters by 50 different contributing artists, including Shepard Fairey (who also contributed the cover), DJ Spooky (aka Paul D. Miller), James Victore, Nick Dewar, Mike Perry, Jon Santos, Geoff McFetridge, Paul Elliman, Chris Silas Neal and many more. Essays by Michael Bierut, Steven Heller, Morgan Clendaniel, Edward Morris and Dmitri Siegel.

We made the posters detachable because we want you to buy and then Destroy This Book.  We looked for posters that could fire on one or more of the key emotions identified by Marshal Ganz as being crucial to building social movements:  Urgency, Hope, Anger, Solidarity and the Feeling You Can Make a Difference.

These posters, which have a strong graphic presence and which never rest on the tired slogans of the past (“Save the Earth,” etc.), show that graphic design does not passively respond to the zeitgeist–it helps shape it.

The book was printed sustainably here in the United States by Monore Litho and using paper manufactured by Mohawk Papers.

You can buy the book anywhere books are sold. 100 PERCENT OF ROYALTIES GO TO SUPPORT THE CANARY PROJECT.  So buy it and spread the word.

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