Art to end hunger
Posted by Justin Kemerling on Thursday, August 26, 2010
This month, Share Our Strength launched the No Kid Hungry Pledge and with it, a national movement to end childhood hunger in America. If you were one of the first 5,000 to take the pledge, you will receive the No Kid Hungry pledge sticker. I am the artist who designed the sticker and I wanted to share some of my inspirations for the design with you. It was a great challenge to come up with a design that would represent the energy and passion of all the pledge takers out there committed to ending childhood hunger once and for all.
Working with the incredibly energetic and dedicated group of people from Share Our Strength, I want this sticker to give people a way to show their individual support and get them excited about an America that is ending childhood hunger by 2015. We need a sustained effort. We need commitments made each and every day by all of us who have enthusiastically signed up, and that’s what I wanted to show with the repeating “I pledge” of the background. It’s like those sentences we used to have to write on the chalkboard in school when we did something bad. But this time, we’re doing something good. We’re pledging a better future. Over and over and over until it becomes reality.
My design was inspired by a child’s whimsical creativity, remembering all the hands-on art projects I used to make as a kid. The way I used to draw pictures, build things with blocks, or cut shapes out of paper. It was always very tactile. You could tell it was made by a youngster who wanted to use his hands. It’s a chalkboard pledge. It’s hopeful and bright. It’s a visual statement of dedication inspired by childhood.
You can still get the sticker by taking the pledge and making a small donation to the campaign. Please do, and put it in a high traffic area. Let it serve as a reminder that we all need to do our part to make NO KID HUNGRY a reality.
You can get your own No Kid Hungry sticker by making a donation.
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