Katrina: Designer News & Resources (09.10 Update)

This updates our efforts to support relief initiatives for those affected by Hurricane Katrina. Regular posts to Design Observer have been greatly reduced, and may be infrequent in the coming weeks. The American contributors will be in Boston most of next week at the AIGA conference in Boston, where we are running panels with disaster victims, and managing many online initiatives. We ask your understanding: however, please visit regularly as we will be continually updating the site as we can, both with new posts and disaster relief news.

Behind the scenes we have been coordinating the consolidation of efforts between AIGA, Displaced Designer, Speak Up and Design Observer. As of Saturday 09.10, Displaced Designer will become the primary site, in conjunction with AIGA, for the collection of help-needed and offers-of-help, and their public display online...

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Katrina: Designer News & Resources (09.08 Update)

This post is an archive of news and resources to help designers from the New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf States area, devastated by Hurricane Katrina. This resource list will not be updated after 09.08, when it was moved to both the AIGA site (more) and to the Displaced Designer site. Other ways to help are outlined below, as well as many other ways to contribute.

RELOCATION HELP/WORK

Berkshire Taconic Katrina Emergency Fund Established to Aid Designers Our offer to help is gathering steam here in Northwest Connecticut/Western Massachusetts. A lot of interest and support from the local community...

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