The candidate: Carlos Menchaca leading protesters at JFK after Donald Trump’s first Muslim ban. This work connected me to a more involved volunteer project, one that had been somewhat selfishly a design “bucket list” item for me: creating a brand, visual language, and digital strategy for a political campaign. You’d be amazed how much you can add with what seems like small contributions.
But I’ve found that any experience in graphic design, branding, social media, and the web are huge value adds to local organizations that may have never seen someone with your skills. You might not feel like you have a unique skill to add to a movement. While it wasn’t a remarkable set of work by my typical design standards, it was pragmatic, clear, and useful–and achieved the most important goal: It was delivered in time for a major event. Through a combination of chance and the excellent organizing of the NYIC, the posters have become some of the most recognizable imagery of the powerful movement to stand up for immigrants –responding to everything from the Muslim and refugee ban to the end of DACA.
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One thing led to another (I have trouble saying no) and that project became a bigger series of more than 20 posters and banners for a range of events, rallies, and marches. I offered to help out on a quick and dirty effort ahead of a big rally. Not only did their mission to support and protect immigrants suddenly seem more important than ever as the Trump administration moved aggressively against immigrant rights, they also needed some posters–and fast. My involvement first started in the middle of last year, out of an urgent need from a friend and her organization, the New York Immigration Coalition. Then this fall, nearly a year later, I found myself in the BBQ joint down the street from my new home in Red Hook, Brooklyn, surrounded by my neighbors, celebrating my small role in a somewhat unlikely political victory–one that gave me a bit more hope for our political institutions and a reminder that there are some very good people out there fighting for them. It started with a few small efforts and projects. In doing so, I was able to (again) see the goodness that government and politics can bring. It’s about what happened in the year that followed and how I, a designer and tech entrepreneur who has never been particularly outwardly political, tried to channel the negative energy into design work that effects change. The motion of the navigation control interface appearing into the imagery is intended to draw attention to the control interface to inform the user that additional canonical views are available.This isn’t a requiem for that night.
In particular implementations, the interface can be configured to come into view over the imagery whenever a user navigates to a particular view of the imagery where a plurality of canonical views is available.
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