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Dacs United 2011

AoiroStudio — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:07:25 +0000

About a year ago, we've featured an exhibition called 'Exposé' from Dacs. It's a design collective that enables creatives from all over the world to rise up against the sex trade. This year, they're back with a new exhibition 'Episodes' and calling designers to join their network for the next exhibition happening in late June.

We are a group of artists with a passion for making a difference in our world. We leverage our unique gifts and styles to produce artwork, to raise awareness of the injustice of sex trafficking and inspiring others to use their talents to impact the world around us.

Dacs is the vision of John Mark Herskind, a young talented designer from South Carolina, US. You can check his work on Johnmarkherskind.com , follow his work on Behance.net or follow him on Twitter @jmherskind .

About DACS

We want to see how effective artists can be when they start breaking the boundaries of culture, race, religion, and backgrounds to unite for a just cause, and use their unique styles and talents to give a voice to the voiceless.

Not to mention that all the submissions will be judged by Jennifer Cirpici from Breakingcanvas.com and Richard Roberts from Theotherstream.com.

For more information about Dacs, you can visit Dacsunited.com , follow them on Twitter @dacsunited or follow them on Tumblr .

Exposé 2010 Video

Exposé from Designers Against Child Slavery on Vimeo.

Exposé 2010 in Pictures

by Sarah Blake

by Richard Roberts

by Carole Wilmet

by Man-Tsun

by Nathan Walker

by Andries Pries

by Cait Maloney

by Yee Von Chan

Information about the next exhibit 'Episodes'

This exhibition is all about telling the story of a trafficking victim, through our art work. So we will be literally illustrating the "Episodes" of a victims story.

Deadline for Entries:
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

Submission details:
Image Size: 40.64 cm x 50.8 cm
Color Mode: CMYK
Resolution: 300 dpi

About the author

My name's François Hoang and my alias's Aoiro Studio. I am a self-taught freelance graphic designer from Montreal, Canada. I've been designing for the last 4 years and really have a huge passion for creative work that makes a difference in our world. If you wanna requests some posts; I can be found on Twitter or feel free to contact me.

Designers Against Child Slavery

PauloGabriel — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:17:00 +0000

Designers Against Child Slavery is a Design Collective that enables creatives from all over the world to rise up against the sex trade. We want to see how effective artists can be when they start breaking the boundaries of culture, race, religion, and backgrounds to unite for a just cause, and use their unique styles and talents to give a voice to the voiceless.

Over the past few decades, sex trafficking has reached epidemic proportions. Its estimated that one third of the worlds sex trafficking takes place in Asia, and 30% of the victims are children. Hundreds of thousands of girls and boys are believed to be enslaved in the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and other countries in an underground industry that inflicts horrible emotional and physical pain to these young lives.

There are an estimated 2 million children enslaved worldwide, with approximately 225,000 women and children being trafficked out of South East Asia annually. The average age of the victims is between 10 and 18 years old, but children have been found as young as 5 years old. These victims are often required to have sex with as many as 15 men a day. If they refuse they are threatened, beaten, and starved. It is estimated that 50-90% of children rescued from brothels in parts of Southeast Asia are infected with HIV.

Although many people are removed forcibly from their families for the purpose of trafficking, many others go willingly, choosing to believe their traffickers promise of a better life. This deceit is all too common. A Cambodian study found that 85 percent of victims were trafficked by someone close to them, someone from within the family, a friend, neighbor or boyfriend.

There are many reasons for the dramatic increase in the trafficking of women and children such as globalization, domestic servitude, cheap labor, marriage, adoption, prostitution, child pornography including the more recent practice of live internet child abuse, and child sex tourism. Weak law enforcement and lack of community awareness as well as the lure of easy money have helped to make this industry boom.

Here are some of the pieces that great-hearted artist made for the project. For more of these works and more information about this collective you may visit DACS website at http://www.dacsunited.com. You should really take a look at these and support the cause. Children all over the world will thank you.

Bram Vanharaen

Diego Rodriguez

Grzegorz Domaradzki

Mike Harrison

Mike Speero

Richard Roberts

Sarah Blake

DACS Exhibition

About the author

Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo Gabriel, designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil, born in 1984. I have worked as a webdesigner since 2006, but websites and blogs have been a hobby for me since 1999. Here in Abduzeedo, I try to bring only the hot stuff for you... and hope that all of you enjoy my posts! For more cool stuff, you may also follow me on Twitter.

Astonishing Children Photography

PauloGabriel — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:20:44 +0000

Children are somewhat misterious beings. Their eyes say a lot when words are really unnecessary. And of course, there are some photographers that just know how to capture a child's spirit.

Taken all over the world, these pictures really say a lot, when you just check these out. They're gorgeous. Hope you all like it! Cheers! ;)

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Dacs United 2011

About DACS

Exposé 2010 Video

Exposé 2010 in Pictures

Information about the next exhibit 'Episodes'

About the author

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Designers Against Child Slavery

Bram Vanharaen

Diego Rodriguez

Grzegorz Domaradzki

Mike Harrison

Mike Speero

Richard Roberts

Sarah Blake

DACS Exhibition

About the author

Sponsored Links:

Astonishing Children Photography

Children are somewhat misterious beings. Their eyes say a lot when words are really unnecessary. And of course, there are some photographers that just know how to capture a child's spirit.

About the author

Sponsored Links: