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Benevolent Media is a blog & consultancy for socially conscious creatives, offering:

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+ weekly email digests
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+ communications, marketing & creative strategy services.

Innovative business idea: Tech startup Roots Studio connects millions of isolated, cultural artists around the world to ...
09/26/2017

Innovative business idea: Tech startup Roots Studio connects millions of isolated, cultural artists around the world to global markets via the licensing of high-quality scans of their designs.

(via TechCrunch)

Roots Studio, which launched today at Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt, aims to connect millions of isolated, cultural artists around the world to..

Rage against the establishment.(via Bloomberg)
09/21/2017

Rage against the establishment.

(via Bloomberg)

This fall and winter, great global art institutions are giving a platform to artists who have raged against the establishment for centuries.

Designers resist, organize, inform & educate for social change.(via 99U)
09/15/2017

Designers resist, organize, inform & educate for social change.

(via 99U)

Four studios and projects reveal the challenges of visualizing an activist movement and the problems in need of creative solutions when design is invested in change.

JR Artist's latest installation imagines a world without borders.(via The New York Times)
09/14/2017

JR Artist's latest installation imagines a world without borders.

(via The New York Times)

For his first installation in Mexico, the artist JR has pasted an image of a child overlooking the United States from the Mexico border. It’s viewable only from the northern side.

"Protest, like art, is idealized to have the power to effect social change, but it can’t, not by itself"(via Hyperallerg...
09/13/2017

"Protest, like art, is idealized to have the power to effect social change, but it can’t, not by itself"

(via Hyperallergic)

At Hunter East Harlem Gallery, Jason Lazarus demonstrates how our political needs persist over time.

“I believe in the very democratic idea that art is for everybody.” (via The New York Times)
09/12/2017

“I believe in the very democratic idea that art is for everybody.”

(via The New York Times)

Tania Bruguera uses installation and performance art to oppose the inhumane treatment of immigrants. T visited her at work in San Francisco.

The North Face wants to make public climbing walls more accessible to more communities. (via Sustainable Brands)
08/25/2017

The North Face wants to make public climbing walls more accessible to more communities.

(via Sustainable Brands)

Walls have conventionally been viewed as objects that divide, an idea that has intensified in this new era. But to The North Face, walls are places where people in the climbing community come together to test themselves, build trust and strengthen their bonds. To spark conversation about building tr...

"Clearly the pussyhat is one of the designs of the year." Read more about social impact art and design via Co.Design:
08/25/2017

"Clearly the pussyhat is one of the designs of the year." Read more about social impact art and design via Co.Design:

Can you talk about art and design in 2017 without talking about politics? Not according to the Design Museum.

MAI’s mission is to use “movement artistry to inspire change in the world.” (via The Atlantic)
07/06/2017

MAI’s mission is to use “movement artistry to inspire change in the world.” (via The Atlantic)

Lil Buck and Jon Boogz use their performances to get people to reconsider what movement can do.

"How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?" - Nina Simone
01/18/2017

"How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?" - Nina Simone

"At least the art will be good." It's a prediction I've heard from several folks about the next four years of pop culture in America. What started as a halfway-joking refrain is becoming a more serious forecast as we near the Trump Presidency. Art that challenges the status quo, disrupts deeply entr...

“What song in your repertoire would fit the design of social struggle?” Many Rivers to Cross Festival
09/26/2016

“What song in your repertoire would fit the design of social struggle?” Many Rivers to Cross Festival

Harry Belafonte has been at the forefront of social change for more than half a century. Now he’s mounting a music festival in Atlanta to promote his goals.

AIGA is starting a cross-chapter dialogue on race, justice, and design. Tune in on July 26.
07/25/2016

AIGA is starting a cross-chapter dialogue on race, justice, and design. Tune in on July 26.

Designers have the capacity to enhance empathy and prototype adaptive solutions to social issues. Join AIGA Town Hall as we have a national dialogue on how designers can make a impact on today's defining issues.

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