The Good News Project

is an NGO "who sees designers, artists, film and internet makers, musicians, communication professionals and artists as an important part of the global conversation. They help people tell their stories, using whatever media is appropriate so that we can all learn faster, and make all our lives better."

http://www.goodnewspeople.org

Input

In this case the input was global. For the first exhibition in Belgrade, August 2006 designers from New York, England, South Africa, Philipines, Mexico and Serbia contributed poster designs, in PDF format, telling the stories of their idea of the good news - real people making their lives better.

Transformation

The transformation was to turn those PDF files into 50 individual printed posters that were output on Xerox's Ingen3 in New York and carried to the Belef Festival. Those posters were then transformed into a very successful kick off exhibition.

Output

• An exhibition that in Belgrade, part of the Belef festival. To see the posters click here To see photos of the exhibition,after you get to the website, click on the GNP world tour in the left sidebar,
• A second exhibition was held in Mexico City in collaboration with local Mexico City ngo's and educational organizations.

Results to date

• A third is being presented at the Belef Festival in August, 2007.read more
• The director of the Belef Festival is coming to NY in April to explore possible further collaborations with Parsons and the Good News Project.
• The activity of the Good News Project has created the value that attracted You Send it(dot)com, Cyrano Project(dot)org, Exhibition In a Box, Spec worldwide, PubCenter and Parsons The New School of Design to start a potentially value creating conversation.
• A continuing conversation with Joseph Staszik, who volunteered to become a Parsons CDT Pub Center International Artist in Residence to manage the Mexico City Exhibition on the ground. Mr. Staszik is the Director of Latin American Center for Digital Communications and has invited Parsons to participate in an event in Mexico City in June. read more

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