Designers Giving Back

I wanted to take a minute and share a site focusing on civilian volunteer efforts in cleaning up the BP oil spill. Designers Giving Back is a site started by a few AiP grads and from what I can tell they just organized themselves to make a difference. Here is an excerpt from their about page:

Designers Giving Back is exactly what it sounds like.

Designers Giving Back is a group of friends and young designers with backgrounds in Multimedia and Industrial Design. Brian Mezzi, Charles Beal, and Erin Surrock have teamed up to tackle obstacles that they believe DESIGN can help fix. Working in conjunction with United Way of South Mississippi, DGB is venturing to the Gulf Coast from June to July to work on multiple projects from the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, to getting families who are still displaced from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita back into their homes or new homes. Going down to the Gulf Coast and getting their hands dirty is their first step to understanding the potential of Design in Disaster Relief.

Make sure you check out their tumbler as well. I reached out to Charles earlier this afternoon and I’m hoping to learn more about what they are doing. Charles’s mother initially sent me a link to the website.

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