I know you’re just doing your job,
but the methods you’ve been asked to use are manipulative and make me less trustful of friendliness in general
and that, not indifference towards your cause,
is why I’m not going to talk to you.
Now, I could talk about how I really feel that these organizations are taking the worst kind of advantage of young people, grinding them down with donation quotas and demeaning/ineffective work in the name of idealism (and I probably will, later). I could make fun of the fact that W+K made these cards because they didn’t like being hassled on their way from their cushy agency jobs to Whole Foods for lunch.
My point here is come on, W+K! Why are you posting this whole self-congratulatory story and not even providing the source material? Oh look, a picture of a hot, smarmy designer looking at the card, but not a link to an image of the card itself. Plus, their comments are locked so I can’t even tell them directly that they’re being total jerks
I was in the middle of writing this post when I realized that this would make me a double jerk if I just complained about it without being part of the solution. So here you are, world: an approximation of the W+K card to passive-aggressively hand out to canvassers who are annoying you outside Whole Foods. (Or wherever)
(better quality PDF or indd available upon request)
I made this in less than 30 minutes on a shitty laptop (it probably took 10 of those minutes just to boot up my copy of CS4) with no mouse, on a grand total of 3 credit hours of design training. And I’m almost positive none of the ~10 subscribers to my blog will seriously want to download and distribute these. But at least I have my principles. Which are, in review, “the internet should be a place for sharing and enabling people to do projects, not just bragging about how cool you are” and “post the damn source material.”
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