Design Action Collective

We are Design Action Collective. Worker-owned, anti-capitalist design firm. Serving movements for liberation since 2002. Our Services: Branding, Web Development, Web Design, Data Visualization, Annual Reports, Publications, Video Production, Speaking Engagements, Newsletter Templates, Custom Illustration, Accessibility Audits, Installations, Social Media, and more! Our clients are changing the world. We collaborate with individuals and community-based, grassroots, non-profit, and philanthropic organizations with local and global impacts. Our future depends on the work our clients do—it’s why we do what we do. Work with us on your next project: LINK IN BIO #designactioncollective

Design Action Collective is grateful to work with UNRWA USA. International aid work is under attack abd creating billboards like these can help change the narrative. #UNRWAworks

At Design Action Collective, we love movies and the movie makers who tell joyful, action packed and inspiring stories. We also know that systemic oppression plays out behind the scenes and in front of camera. That is why we are grateful to work on the bi-annual Hollywood Diversity Report from the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UCLA which examines the relationship between racial, ethnic and gender diversity and the bottom line in the entertainment industry. This data is used by advocates to advance equity and inclusion. As designers, we love making that data accessible and clear. Download the full report! https://lnkd.in/er6_JM9S #graphicdesign #graphicdesigner #graphicart #bookdesign #book #printdesign #indesign #photoshop #illustrator #reportdesign #diversity #diversityinhollywood #hollywood

Race Forward's biennial conference, #FacingRace, took place in St. Louis last week and brought together thousands of social justice organizers from around the country to strategize and build power. Design Action member Sabiha Basrai was able to connect with narrative strategists and racial justice trainers as we plan to defend our communities from heightened attacks. We know the work ahead will be very difficult, but we are not alone. ?? Image Descriptions: 1. DAC member Sabiha Basrai stands on a platform beside a podium speaking into a microphone. She has short hair and glasses, and is wearing a purple keffiyeh over a dark shirt and jeans. A large conference badge hangs around her neck. 2. Sabiha poses with a person wearing a brown head wrap and a beard. They are both wearing keffiyehs, smiling, and holding up their conference badges for the camera. 3. Sabiha poses with three other people standing outside wearing coats and smiling at the camera. One person wears a yellow scarf. 4. Sabiha poses with a person wearing short hair and a dark open button down shirt over a lighter gray shirt. 5. Sabiha poses with two other people smiling at the camera. One wears a hijab and the other a head wrap, glasses, and long earrings. They are holding up a sign that reads, “Resistance is an idea and you can’t kill an idea,” a quote attributed to Ghassan Kanafani.

New IG Reel out today! ?????? Our clients are changing the world. We collaborate with individuals and community-based, grassroots, non-profit, and philanthropic organizations with local and global impacts. Our future depends on the work our clients do—it’s why we do what we do. Work with us on your next project! We do it all... Branding, Web Development, Web Design, Data Visualization, Annual Reports, Publications, Video Production, Speaking Engagements, Newsletter Templates, Custom Illustration, Accessibility Audits, Installations, Social Media, and more!#designactioncollective To work with us this summer, contact us today at designaction.org! https://lnkd.in/ght8Brm3

Our?Story 1974-2002: Before Design Action, there was Inkworks Press Design Action Collective began as an offshoot of?Inkworks Press Collective?(1974-2015). Founded as a “Marxist-Leninist Socialist Feminist” printing collective, Inkworks was a worker-owned, democratically run, union shop that served the Bay Area’s radical and progressive organizations for more than 40 years. Design Action’s founders were members of Inkworks Press who started design services in-house after it became clear that design was an urgent need for the clients Inkworks served. However, they soon realized those needs would be better served by an independent shop that could collaborate in a larger ecosystem of services.?So, Design Action (a play on “direct action”) was born. In the decades Inkworks was active, thousands of pages of political art rolled off their presses. They collaborated with hundreds of artists who were long-standing players in their communities and movements for social justice. (The Inkworks Press poster archive?preserves some of the amazing work they printed.) Much of our early structure, by-laws, and co-op practices we owed to them. 2002 Onward:?Rooted in resistance to war, white supremacy, and U.S. imperialism Design Action Collective was founded in 2002, in the post-9/11 years when the PATRIOT Act and the Bush administration’s imperialist war-mongering shaped campaigns for human rights. In 2004, we officially incorporated, with help from the Association of Arizmendi Cooperatives. We celebrate our anniversary on May 1, the date we first went on payroll as a shop and in honor of International Workers Day.? Our work and our politics continue to evolve with the movement’s needs and with each new collective member who joins us. To find out more, read about?Our Team.