anti-war.us

I was looking through this book "The Design of Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics" by Milton Glaser and Mirko Ilic for some inspiration and happened upon a write up of a website I had never heard of before. Glaser and Ilic summarized the website like this "The anti-war.us website was created by Plazm Design to distribute effective anti-war messages and graphics to activists around the world. The intention is to make the images available to the public for downloading so that they can be transferred to stickers, posters, signs, or other media for posting." The idea that artists would volunteer their labor to make art to support anti-war efforts is inspiring to me because it means that these people aren't the greedy kind of designers whose only artistic goal is to make images that sell. You have to applaud people like that because it is hard to make a living as an artist and probably even harder for socially and politically conscious artists to find clients who share their same values-- at least that's my perception of contemporary society. I feel like people who are conscious and acknowledge how bad things are and are motivated to work for change are the minority in this country and in the world-- but those of us who live privileged lives have no excuse to not be using our free time and luxury money to do something positive.