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Social Responsibility In Graphic Design

By tosopThursday - December 31st, 2015Categories: Current Events


This design is based on a stencil graffiti, featuring the words Fight Racism! framing a close-up of a young person speaking. The color scheme is red, black, and green.

Recently, I decided to do a design for my 400 Planets store featuring a graffiti image that carried the message “Fight Racism.” I had been delaying this design for a couple of years, not knowing the right way to approach it. I finally decided to add the a red, black, and green gradient to it—the colors of the Black Liberation Flag.

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Why Congress Should Pass HR 40

By tosopFriday - April 24th, 2015Categories: Current Events

HR 40 is a bill sponsored by Representative John Conyers Jr., introduced on 1989, in a previous session of Congress. Each year since then it has been put up before Congress and each year Congress fails to pass it. HR 40 is a bill to study American slavery and the devastating effects of slavery after it was abolished.

You may ask: Why should Congress Pass HR 40?

    Answer:

  1. Why is black American wealth what it is relative to white wealth?

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