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NARRATIVE GRAPHICS |
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the true cost of coal |
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In 2008, the Beehive Design Collective allied with Appalachian grassroots organizers fighting Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining, a practice which blasts mountains into moonscapes to fuel the ever-growing global demand for electricity. Our team of volunteer artists and educators have put countless hours into designing "The True Cost of Coal," a a visually stunning graphic multi-tool for activists and ordinary folks seeking real solutions.
We are all impacted by coal, and we all play a part in the system that demands coal as fuel. The Beehive's True Cost of Coal Campaign is helping more people understand the real impacts of our national energy choices, so we can build a sustainable future.
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plan colombia |
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This graphic is the product of many intercambios about the issue of colonialism in the Andean Region of South America that took place between our collective and organizers over the spring of 2002 in Ecuador, Colombia and the U.S. These exchanges of information and inspiration were collaboratively sewn together into a quilt of images, that are organized into a circuit of progressions and contrasts that inform and engage the viewer throughout their journey of the graphic.
The long history of colonialism in the Americas, currently manifested in the Andean Region as "Plan Colombia," is repeated in the multi-faceted destructive influences of U.S. foreign policy and corporate monoculture on a global scale. This graphic attempts to expose the lie of the drug war as a smokescreen for multinational corporation's interests in extraction of the rich biodiversity and natural resources of the Amazon and her peoples. It is an anti-war poster that speaks in the mythology of our times… the cancerous monomyth of corporate globalization, and its antibodies of grassroots resistance.
In an attempt to overcome the tendency of images to simply portray"what we are against," this graphic illustrates its story in three "layers" to help the viewer experience the different aspects of an extremely complex and brutal situation. The mission was to give an illustrated explanation of not just the nightmare, but to also give weight to the inspiring stories of hope, courage and struggle of those that are directly experiencing it. As North American youth that have endured the destructive and racist brainwashing of television, videogames, cultural appropriation and advertising imagery, our collective felt it was essential to produce this representation in collaboration with organizers in the Andean region, to get the story straight. The result is thick with those voices. The tools produced from this collaboration are being distributed as anti-copyright material for use in campaigns in both the South and North of the Americas.
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FREE TRADE AREA OF THE AMERICAS |
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The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) had been negotiated in private since the 1994 Summit of the Americas. Like the infamous North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the FTAA was an international initiative that aimed to eliminate the remaining “barriers” to the free flow of money, goods, and services across borders in the Western Hemisphere, excluding Cuba, in an attempt to create ONE huge, integrated web of “open markets.” This graphic representation of the FTAA, created in 2001, illustrates the consequences of corporate globalization networks, and exposes threats to the well-being of all forms of life throughout the Americas. It is a map of interconnections, which allows the viewer a moment to find oneself in the bigger picture of the time in which we are all now living...
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resist biotechnology |
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One of the first posters made by the Beehive Design Collective, this graphic about Biotechnology not only investigated the genetic modificiation of life, but zooms out to create a narrative about the homogenization of culture, food, and our enviornment.
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