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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Hey everyone — I’m back at it!  

For all those that subscribed to the RSS feed or keep checking back at the website, thanks for the patience!  I had some excitement in the last couple months, and wasn’t able to get back to this as quickly as I’d hoped.  You should start seeing a pretty steady stream of content up here again, though!

I have quite a few half-written posts from over the summer, so I’ll feed off of those for a bit.  You should see the first of them tonight.  BUT, I also want to do a roundup study on the new trends in design for the fall.  So before you get my insights, lets do a talk-back:  

What do YOU see as the latest and greatest in design?  Which are just fads that will fade away, and which will stick?

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IndieCAST 004: Inspiration #1 - Where do you get your inspiration?

This is going to be a weekly section with the latest and greatest places to get inspiration for design, brand-building, and just plain LIVING.

But WAIT! I need YOUR help to get started! Watch the video, and leave a comment below on where you get YOUR inspiration.  All the LURKERS (thanks to Gary V for that terminology) need to come out of their shadows on this one!  Yes, I know you’re out there: hundreds of you in fact, reading every day and NOT COMMENTING.  It’s never too late to start :)  Help our readers get INSPIRED to new levels of creativity and originality!  We need it if we’re going to change the design world from something bland into something original, beautiful, and exciting.

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