Saturday, January 15, 2011 at 12:00PM | 4 Comments tagged The Cottage | in Design, Food, Sustainability, Well-Being
The Cottage | in Design, Food, Sustainability, Well-Being Project 004: Logo Design for Food Day
Our friends at the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest are sponsoring the first annual Food Day this October. Similar to Earth Day, it aims to stimulate thousands of activities across the country. The activities will focus on key aspects of food -- health, sustainable agriculture, animal welfare, and more. Can you come up with a dynamic logo?
Food Day is expected to be a highly publicized national event with activities ranging from cooking classes in elementary schools to teach-ins at universities. It will largely be a celebration of delicious, healthy food produced in a humane, environmentally sustainable way. Food Day will advocate for policy changes at the national, state, and local levels. It will also be an effort to denounce junk food makers and their marketing to children, ending inhumane practices on factory farms, and minimizing food deserts in inner cities (where grocery stores are non-existent).
If you don't know about CSPI, you should: it led the lobbying efforts to get the Nutrition Facts label on food packages, led the charge against trans fat and sulfites, stopped dozens of deceptive food labels and advertising (including phony "natural" claims), and much more. Michael Jacobson, Ph.D., CSPI's executive director was recently given the annual "Hero" award by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation.
How the project will work
This will be a pro bono (unpaid) effort to help make Food Day a huge success. The FearLess team is accepting logo entries now through Sun, January 23. All designs should be created in Adobe Illustrator, but should be submitted as a 520x400 pixel, 72 dpi RGB jpeg to: projects [at] fearlesscottage.com.
One stunning logo per person is all we’re looking for, but if you feel strongly about more than one design, you’re welcome to send up to three. Please also provide your name and contact info with your submission. Once we’ve reviewed the submissions, we’ll put our favorites up for voting. All the finalist designers will get a FearLess t-shirt and a free subscription to CSPI's Nutrition Action Healthletter, the world's largest-circulation (850,000) health newsletter.
Thanks, and good luck!
You can also sign up for our FearLess Force to stay on top of this and other projects that we’re running.
Saturday, January 15, 2011 at 12:00PM | 4 Comments
Reader Comments (4)
As farmers, we do our very best to ensure that the food you put on your table is free from pesticides and other contaminants.
North America, many European countries, Australia & New Zealand have stringent laws in
place about what goes on crops or what is fed to animals. It's not just a question of, well
laws are meant to be broken, we couldn't get our hand on injurious products if we wanted
to unlike South America and China who don't seem to care what they poison you with.
In Canada, when we give our kids a glass of milk, for example, there is absolutely nothing in
that glass but milk. No antibiotics, no growth hormones, just milk.
As we watch good farm land disappear under sub-divisions and industrial units, we see more and more sub-standard food appearing on supermarket shelves. It's up to you, if you don't buy it, it won't get produced.
Always remember.. .If you ate today,you can thank a farmer.
The montage above looks like an old Kodak album to me. On a deep level, considering how the great majority live, will continue to live, must live, it's absurd to the point of nausea. Food day? Why not Fetishize Food Day? Or Make Believe Food Day. This must be what the prophet meant, by "all is vanity."
Scientists have found that we entrain the Earth and vice versa. When we cultivate fertile gardens the Earth restores our fertile abundance.
Blessings
Oh really lovely picture i like your picture Thank for sharing.