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Tenants’ Rights Flash Cards

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:56:27 +0000

After sketchy incidents with my landlords and hearing horror stories from others, I realized many renters are unfamiliar with their rights. What’s my landlord required to repair? How does subletting work? When can my landlord enter my apartment? What are grounds for eviction? To help demystify the law, I collaborated with non-profit organization Tenants & Neighbors to develop and design a boxed set of 30 flash cards on tenants’ rights. The flash cards translate New York’s official Tenants’ Rights Guide into a fun and friendly format that covers everything from security deposits and subletting to paint and privacy so residents can have fun while getting their learn on. They’re available for $10 in Tenants & Neighbors’ online store and all profits go towards their good work. Buy one for yourself and all of your friends – a righteous gift for anyone in New York state! Supported by a generous grant from Sappi Ideas That Matter.

The flash cards are also available at Project No.8’s new store No. 8a in the Ace Hotel! If you’re a New York store interested in carrying the cards, please contact Maggie@tandn.org.

3″ x 4″ die-cut cards are printed on 12pt coated cover stock by Colortone.
The word on the street: BLDG BLOG. Boingboing, Gothamist, FastCompany, Public Workshop

Street Vendor Guide

admin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:59:29 +0000

There are more than 10,000 street vendors in NYC and thanks to their offerings I’ve consumed a truckload of hot dogs, falafel, biryani, sunglasses, and handbags. But selling things from a table or cart isn’t as simple as it seems. Vendors are fined $1000 for small violations, like parking their cart too far from the curb, and many vendors don’t know their rights when confronted by police. The rulebook of legal code is intimidating and hard to understand by anyone, let alone someone whose first language isn’t English. To address these problems, I collaborated with Sean Basinski of The Street Vendor Project and Rosten Woo and John Mangin of the Center for Urban Pedagogy to develop and design this fold-out guide. Vendors’ rights and the most commonly violated rules are illustrated and include minimal text in English, Bengali, Chinese, Arabic, and Spanish. The guide also includes a 32″ x 22″ advocacy poster directed towards all street vendor fans that features personal stories from vendors, history, fun facts, and policy reform recommendations (lift license caps, increase street access, reduce the fines, reform administration and enforcement). Thousands of copies were distributed to street vendors for free, and the guide is available for $6 in CUP’s online store. Hang the poster up and show your love for street vendors too! Part of CUP’s Making Policy Public series, 2009.

Download a pdf version!
Read my article about the process on the Urban Omnibus!

32″ x 22″ fold-out poster is printed on heavy 80 lb. Lynx Brightwhite Smooth matte paper stock by Westcan/Printcrafters Inc.
The word on the street: The New York Times, New York Magazine, TYPO Magazine, Communication Arts, BLDGBLOG.
This project will be featured in the 2010 National Design Triennial by the Smithsonian, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum!

Tickets from street vendors – mostly for parking their cart too far from the curb, parking on restricted streets, parking too close to a storefront, and not “conspicuously” wearing their license

Typical page from current regulation book. Snap!

Meeting with street vendors to develop the guide

Distribution event, 2009. Vendor photos by CUP

The team: Sean Basinski, Rosten Woo, John Mangin, and Candy Chang

And something Sean recently found from 1905:

“I think it would be a great advantage to all the peddlers to have a translated copy of the license issued. As it is, some of the Italians cannot understand the regulations of the road and the ordinances of the City. If it were printed in English…in Yiddish…in Greek, Italian and Syrian for the others it would prove to be a great aid to them.”
- Rev. Bernardino Polizzo, 1905, during a hearing on the pushcart menace

Censorship Posters

admin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:51:35 +0000

To highlight the censorship that still muffles citizens around the world, I designed these two posters for the global event Poster4Tomorrow. I got a first-hand schooling from TED Fellow Esra’a Al Shafei who can’t have her picture taken/posted for fear of being identified by various Middle Eastern governments. Her organization MideastYouth.com is an unfiltered platform that facilitates freedom of expression and constructive discussion amongst youth in the Middle East (with provocative video mashups to boot), but they have to constantly get their nerd on and rewire their internets in order to keep their lines open to the rest of the world. Spread that. The yellow poster was selected as one of 100 posters from designers around the world that were exhibited in 20+ cities including Beirut, Belgrade, and Buenos Aires December 2009 – March 2010. If you want to print them out you can download pdfs of the yellow and blue or purchase prints of the yellow or blue at various larger sizes. 15″ x 21″ for $15.70 up to 35″ x 49″ for $39.35.

Water in Africa Poster

admin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:53:30 +0000

For Good 50×70, James Reeves and I designed this poster for the African Medical and Research Foundation. Typography is the sole element used to highlight some startling facts: only half of people in Africa have access to safe water and water-borne diseases kill one child every three seconds. If you want to print it out you can download a pdf or purchase a print at various larger sizes here. 15″ x 21″ for $15.70 up to 35″ x 49″ for $39.35.

Barack Obama T-shirt

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:37:17 +0000

While watching the Democratic National Convention in November 2008, I channeled my love for Barry and created a high-brow collage made out of his photo and scraps of construction paper. Now you can buy it and show how much you crush on Barry too! T-shirts come in red, blue, and gray versions to match all your political outfits. Women’s ringer t-shirt: $22.45. Men’s ringer t-shirt: $20.20.