When Aaron Perry-Zucker ’09 GD got together with Adam Meyer ’09 ID last summer to launch a website called Design for Obama, the two seniors had little idea of the ripple effect that would follow. One such ripple led them to Green Patriot Posters, a new initiative produced by The Canary Project. Also launched last summer, the Green Patriot site was designed by RISD Graphic Design faculty member John Caserta and his Yale grad school friend Dmitri Siegel, who worked with Ed Morris, Canary’s founder and executive director, to create a site that welcomes submissions of posters designed to mobilize people to help create a sustainable economy. As soon as Morris saw the Design for Obama site, he realized the RISD students had devised just what he needed to encourage more poster submissions for the Canary effort. So he commissioned Adam to modify his poster-submission programming for use on the Green Patriot site and will introduce the new feature on the year’s most auspicious day for change: January 20. The plan is then to select the best designs and produce them as bus ads, billboards, an exhibition and a book. “And we really want to encourage RISD people to submit their designs,” Morris adds.

Meanwhile, some of the best posters rounded up through the Design for Obama site are on view this month in Politics by Design: The Art of Inspiration at Dissident Display in DC, the MANIFEST HOPE: DC juried exhibition organized in part by Shepard Fairey ’92 IL and CAN & DID at Danziger Projects in NYC. For more on the ongoing ripples, read this Q&A with Aaron.