Good50x70 2009

GOOD50X70 FOR EARTH HOUR/WWF

4DMING00D — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:08:45 +0000

March the 27th is the Earth Hour. Climate posters from Good50×70 2008/2009 will be on show @ Sharjah Aquarium, United Arab Emirates. We’re going to switch off the lights, will you?

Good50×70 @ Green Social Festival

4DMING00D — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:52:27 +0000

While we’re working on the 4th edition of Good50×70, a selection of 90 environmental posters of the past years is being featured at the
Green Social Festival in Bologna, Italy.

The exhibition will be on display from February the 14th until February the 19th at Palazzo Re Enzo.

Keep an eye out for updates!

Good50×70 in the Promised Land

tommaso — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:30:12 +0000

Good 50×70’s exhibition is now on display in Holon, Israel.

Holon is an up and coming city next to Tel Aviv, currently busy making design part of its offering. To this purpose they asked Ron Arad to build them a wonderful Design Museum that will be ready in January, but more importantly they decided to host Good50×70’s posters in the city.
Nice move!

For this event, the Design Museum not beig ready yet, we had to settle with Beit Meirov gallery – just kidding, we were really happy of the set up and the location. We had a great opening there, hosted by our friend Yossi Lemel.

If you’re from Tel Aviv please don’t be lazy and make the effort and go and see the posters, they’re going to stay there until the 16th of January.
For all the others, you can check some pictures on our Flickr gallery.

Good 50×70 in the Northof the North

tommaso — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:32:57 +0000

We just made it back from the opening of Good50×70’s exhibition in Luleå, Sweden, which took place on October the 24th.

We had the fantastic opportunity to present our project in the land of the Sami, meet local students and witness the first snow of the year.
Despite the cold weather, it was a warm welcome!

You can see some pictures from the opening on our Flickr page.

All the 210 posters will be on display at the Norrbottens Museum until January 31st, the entrance is free. After they will (hopefully) continue to tour other museums in the Norrbotten region.

GoodAmsterdam is here!

tommaso — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:42:06 +0000

After a year’s work, we’re very, very proud to let you know that GoodAmsterdam is finally go!

We had the official launch at the Pakhuis de Zwijger on September 30th (picture above) and as you can see from the picture below, the posters are now in the streets of Amsterdam.

The launch was a very special evening which had three highlights: the unveiling of the 15 final posters for GoodAmsterdam (including the 3 for the Poezenboot that you can see above); the world premiere of the G00d50×70 catalogue for 2009; and a live design battle to produce a poster for the Leger des Heils (the Salvation Army).

You can see some photos of the evening on our flickr stream here.

4 of the posters are now in the streets of Amsterdam (thanks to Bizon Print and Bizon Buitenreclame), while all 15 will be exhibited around the city and have been collected in a special edition of Z magazine (the homeless magazine) dedicated to GoodAmsterdam.

You can follow our progress via the GoodAmsterdam website and our flickr stream.

Thanks to everybody who made this happen – and if you’re in Amsterdam, buy Z and look out for the posters. And even more importantly, support our charities!

Graniph loves Good50×70

tommaso — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:31:09 +0000

We teamed up with Japanese t-shirt brand Graniph to produce six limited edition T-Shirts from some of the designs featured in our 2008 and 2009 competitions.

The authors of the selected designs are Roberto Anzani (Italy), Andre Casaclang (Australia), Natalia Delgado (Mexico), Meta Newhouse (United States), Riccardo Perello (Italy) and Sian Richardson (New Zealand). You can check the t-shirts here, and buy one to support our project.

Graniph is donating part of the profits to support our future activities in Hong Kong and support the local chapters of our partnering charities in that part of the world. We’re also using some of the earnings to off-set the CO2 emissions involved in producing the t-shirts.

Good50×70 goes to Big Sky country

tommaso — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:04:35 +0000

We’re busy preparing our first activity in the United States: an exhibition and workshop in Bozeman, Montana. We’re guests of the Montana State University, where we’ll have the chance of holding a workshop with 30 design students.
The exhibition will open on the 25th of September and wil stay on for two weeks. Most of the posters will be on exhibit at the Montana Hall in the university campus and some will make it to the Ellen Theatre in downtown Bozeman, where we’ve been asked to hold a presentation about the project on September the 29th.

A Call for Freedom of Expression

tommaso — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:14:03 +0000

Today we launch our new initiative, Poster4Tomorrow. It’s an open competition inviting the global creative community to create posters to draw attention to, and take action against, the repression of freedom
of expression. It’s organized by us (Associazione Culturale GoodDesign) together with HM Studio and 4tomorrow.

Freedom of creative expression is something that we feel very strongly about, and we think it’s worth everyone’s time to ponder how different the world would be if we couldn’t communicate freely through design, or any other media.

So when we were approached by Hervé Matine, an Iranian designer, about a possible collaboration, we had no hesitation in agreeing. We see Poster4Tomorrow as a natural development from Good50×70 and it’s something that we’re very proud to be involved with.

Poster4Tomorrow is now open for entries until November the 15th. You can find out more about the project and download the brief at http://www.poster4tomorrow.org/.

Poster, tshirt and donation all in one special tube.

tommaso — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:02:02 +0000

This year we’re doing our catalogue slightly differently with a special edition that will directly help some of our endorsing charities. And us. For once, everyone wins. When you buy you the catalogue (more about that later) you can choose to either receive a tshirt (proceeds go to Good 50×70) or make a donation directly to one of charities (you choose which one). Both ‘versions’ of the catalogue cost the same, though you won’t get a tshirt if you choose to donate to our charities, just a healthy dose of moral satisfaction.

This special edition of the catalogue is a ‘memento’ of the exhibition rather the book we’ve had in previous years. That’s because, for the first time, Bis Publisher will be publishing and distributing our catalogue worldwide later this year, which we’re very excited about.

You can buy the catalogue here now.

We had some good fun

tommaso — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:28:43 +0000

This year we tried to do things on a slightly bigger scale by putting together a week of workshops and the exhibition opening ceremony.

For those of you who haven’t noticed it – or those who simply weren’t able to come to Milan to enjoy all of this – we’ve posted a lot of pictures on Flickr and quite a few videos on Vimeo.

We were really pleased with the outcome of the workshops and the exhibition opening – despite the rain treath the Triennale was as filled as ever with visitors.

We’d like to thank everyone who came to visit us, especially who took the effort to come from far away places to see their work displayed.

The exhibition is still open until the 12th of July in Milan. After that, we’ll once again hit the road for our tour.