Today is a pretty big day.

Why?  Because I’m launching my first non-profit project: We Design Change

After being involved in Blog Action Day 2008, I became pretty inspired by the huge levels of cooperation, networking, and just plain creativity throughout the blogosphere, but ESPECIALLY throughout the design communnity.  We banded together over Twitter, we networked to keep our stories popular, we used our design skills to draw tons of attention to big issues, and we made our corners of the world look beautiful.

After seeing this awesome potential within the design community, I thought to myself that this HAS to be tapped and our efforts combined more often.  We Design Change is the result of that realization.

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This post is part of Blog Action Day 2008.  Today, over 12,000 blogs around the world are calling awareness to the topic of poverty, reaching an estimated audience of over 13 million readers.  Join in at blogactionday.org

Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty - Use your Design Skills to Make a Difference

Ever feel like you are in a profession that doesn’t allow you to have a huge impact on some of the most important issues in the world?  Designers can make anything beautiful and eye-catching, but what can they do to solve poverty?  The answer is A LOT.  Don’t be fooled by the doubts.  Here are 10 ways designers can tap their creativity to make a BIG difference in world poverty.  Now you have no excuse!

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It’s THAT time of year again, and I feel inspired to give some money away.

What “time” you ask?  It’s time for bloggers everywhere to unite in calling our readers to action on a tough social issue that affects every community in the world in some way or another.  It’s time for Blog Action Day 2008, and this year’s topic is poverty.  In the midst of the world economic crisis, I can’t think of a more relevant topic.

I don’t know why I didn’t think of this earlier, but I was just inspired by some of the movement already happening in the blogging community when I saw @blogactionday post this:

http://tinyurl.com/bad08hunger Leave a comment and $1 goes to a food bank. Take 30 seconds and do it.

So first off: Go right now over to PINK ASPARAGUS and leave a comment!

Second, being inspired, here is what I am going to do:

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