Advocates For AIDS

Visual Culture presents this collection of non-profit organization logos to keep with our theme today that is focused on raising awareness for HIV/AIDS as part of World AIDS Day 2009. Each organization is dedicated to combat AIDS.

1. Youth AIDS
2. Love Heals
3. Africare
4. Debt AIDS Trade Africa (DATA)
5. ONE
6. Elton John AIDS Foundation
7. amfAR
8. Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC)
9. International AIDS Society
10. (RED)
11. UNAIDS
12. Pangaea
13. AIDS Alliance
14. World Vision

Please feel free to add to our list.

Today is World AIDS Day


Image from Lights for Rights

World AIDS Day has been held on December 1st since 1988. The intention is to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS across the globe. For this years event the theme is focused on human rights and access to treatment.

Below are a few sobering facts about HIV and AIDS:

• A total of 33 million people now live with HIV/AIDS. Two million of them are under the age of 15.

• In 2008, an estimated 2.7 million people were infected with HIV.

• Every day 7,397 people contract HIV—308 every hour.

• In 2008, 2.0 million people died from AIDS.

• More than two-thirds (67 percent) of all people living with HIV, 22 million, live in sub-Saharan Africa—including 90 percent of the world’s HIV-positive children.

For additional facts about AIDS you can go here.

Want to get involved? Go here to see if an event is going on in your area.

Decode: Digital Design Sensations

Decode: Digital Design Sensations at the V&A (London, UK) showcases the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small, screen-based, graphics to large-scale interactive installations. The exhibition includes works by established international artists and designers such as Daniel Brown, Golan Levin, Daniel Rozin, Troika and Karsten Schmidt. The exhibition features both existing works and new commissions created especially for the exhibition.

Decode is a collaboration between the V&A and onedotzero, a contemporary arts organisation operating internationally with a remit to promote innovation across all forms of moving image and interactive arts.

The exhibition explores three themes: Code presents pieces that use computer code to create new works and looks at how code can be programmed to create constantly fluid and ever-changing works. Interactivity looks at works that are directly influenced by the viewer. Visitors will be invited to interact with and contribute to the development of the exhibits. Network focuses on works that comment on and utilise the digital traces left behind by everyday communications and looks at how advanced technologies and the internet have enabled new types of social interaction and mediums of self-expression.

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Harry Pearce: Conundrums

See if you can answer these typographic riddles…

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