Poster Projects for Social Responsibility

Posters are a popular way for artists and designers use their skills to create awareness and raise money for organizations on both the local level and internationally. "The Haiti Poster Project" is a collaboration of artists and designers from around the world. Signed and numbered, limited edition posters have been donated to raise money that will be donated to Doctors Without Borders.In 2005 "The Hurricane Poster Project" was a collaborative design effort created after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. The project produced over 180 different limited-edition series of posters, raising about $50,000.Working on an individual basis, in 2002 designer Chaz Maviyane-Davies created a poster a day to raise awareness about the issues involved in the Zimbabwe presidential elections. For a month Maviyane-Davies produced around 42 images called ‘Portal of Tuth’ to protest Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party who hid rights abuses in legislation using laws to dismember and disenfranchise the citizenry of Zimbabwe. The full series can be seen here.For more than twenty years Maviyane-Davies' work has taken on issues of consumerism, health, nutrition, social responsibility, the environment and human rights.