The Barack Obama Campaign has a series of art prints for sale under the name Artists for Obama. The series is comprised of images inspired by the message of the Obama campaign and they’ve had some high powered artists on board already. All money spent on the prints go towards the Obama campaign, so it’s a great way to help support his bid for the presidency!
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Here’s a recent poster designed for a friend of mine in Indiana.

Just a quick note . . . I’ve just begun writing a series of posts for a KU Center for Research on Learning blog called Stratepedia. My goal is to write some general design tips that non-designers might find useful in their day-to-day work. I’ll be covering topics like printing, graphic file types, use of color, fonts, photography and an assortment of other design-related issues. For those of you interested in some basic design tips, you can find it at http://blog.stratepedia.org/author/dgnojek/.

Image courtesy of AIGA KC

On March 10, AIGA Kansas City hosted a lecture by New York based graphic designer and typographer, Stefan Sagmeister. Mr. Sagmeister is one of the most recognized living graphic designers and I’ve always been an admirer of his work and the way that he works with concepts to complete his projects. In his hour long talk, he touched on the work that he has been doing since he took his self-imposed sabbatical (the “year without clients”). He has set up his small design firm, Sagmeister, Inc., in a way that I think would be ideal for most designers. The firm breaks down work into 4 categories:

1. Design for music (i.e. the identity for Casa de Musica and also his long list of famous album covers.)
2. Socially responsible design (i.e. True Majority)
3. Corporate design (Zumtobel)
4. We are the authors (his most current typeographic work)

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Just picked up the 2008 t-shirt from the The Community Mercantile, a natural food grocer (and source for all things vegan and healthy) in Lawrence, KS. It’s available in a variety of colors and sizes, so go pick one up! This cool, hand-drawn image was done by Lawrence graphic designer Melissa Meyer. Melissa not only does wonderful graphic design, but also web design and beautiful textile designs. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Melissa on several occasions and she is an extremely creative and talented artist and designer!