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 Friday, February 27, 2009

Walking Cultural Activism: People of Reason

By Greg Perkins @ 12:01 PM

Tammy and I thought it would be great to produce a series of T-shirt designs for those occasions when it is appropriate to wear our ideas on our sleeves.  Bonus points if they aren't just provocative but actually spark some good engagement!

Here is a design that underscores a cardinal value, the primary virtue, our essential nature -- highlighting a fundamental contrast with all those who tout being people of faith:




(Just click through to BoltOfReason.Com to check out all the available styles and colors. We of course love suggestions and requests -- we're already working on a lot of fun ideas, and if you are the first to hit us with a new one that we use in a future shirt design, you'll get one for free!)

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 Thursday, January 15, 2009

Walking Cultural Activism: A Personal Relationship

By Greg Perkins @ 3:12 PM

Tammy and I thought it would be great to produce a series of T-shirt designs for those occasions when it is appropriate to wear our ideas on our sleeves. Bonus points if they aren't just provocative but actually spark some good engagement!

Here's a design that offers a simple, wry response to the oddly-fashionable notion that Christianity isn't a religion (no sir, it's a relationship with Jesus): I have a personal relationship with reality.



You can't tell at that resolution, but the font sports a distressed typewriter look, and there is a subtle emphasis on the word 'reality'. Here's a closer look:



(Just click through to BoltOfReason.Com to check out all the available styles and colors. We of course love suggestions and requests -- we're already working on a lot of fun ideas, and if you are the first to hit us with a new one that we use in a future shirt design, you'll get one for free!)

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 Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Walking Cultural Activism: Of The World

By Greg Perkins @ 3:08 PM

Tammy and I thought it would be great to produce a series of T-shirt designs for those occasions when it is appropriate to wear our ideas on our sleeves. Bonus points if they aren't just provocative but actually spark some good engagement!

This design speaks to the phenomenon of Christians who are taught to be in the world but not of the world and revel in being aliens here in reality. There is even a company named NOTW ("Not Of This World") that sells them a staggering array of hip decals and clothing.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but that's just messed up. The world is the source of every one of our values -- that's why we are in it, and why we should love being in it!

Yes, that is a reference to Leonardo da Vinci's renowned Vitruvian Man drawing. "This image exemplifies the blend of art and science during the Renaissance and ... represents a cornerstone of Da Vinci's attempts to relate man to nature." Here's a closer look:





(Just click through to BoltOfReason.Com to check out all the available styles and colors. We of course love suggestions and requests -- we're already working on a lot of fun ideas, and if you are the first to hit us with a new one that we use in a future shirt design, you'll get one for free!)

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 Friday, November 28, 2008

A Different Kind of Christmas Card

By Paul Hsieh @ 12:01 AM

Objectivist graphic designer John Powers has created these terrific "alternate Christmas cards":



From the website:
Isaac Newton Christmas Cards

Celebrate reason and science on December 25th, instead of the same old bearded mystic!

I like to send Christmas cards, but as an atheist, I have had to limit myself to the hundreds of bland cards that neutrally say "Happy Holidays." I decided that if it's okay for (almost) everyone else to stamp, seal, and deliver their philosophy to me every Christmas, I'll do just the same.

Sir Isaac Newton's ideas helped to rescue mankind from drudgery and propel it into the space age. I am a lover of reason, and I love it unashamedly, and I want my friends to know it too. They will this Christmas. Yours can, too.

Details

Outside: "On December 25th, a Savior was born. He revealed eternal Truth, bringing Joy to millions. He astonished the world with His command over Nature. He changed history forever."

Inside: "Happy Birthday, Sir Isaac Newton. December 25, 1642 - March 20, 1726".

Web site and greeting card designs are copyright © 2008 John Powers.
(John also did free web design for the FIRM site.)

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 Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Walking Cultural Activism: One Nation

By Greg Perkins @ 4:55 PM

Tammy and I thought it would be great to produce a series of T-shirt designs for those occasions when it is appropriate to wear our ideas on our sleeves. Bonus points if they aren't just provocative but actually spark some good engagement!

Here are two designs that respond to the religionists who called on Congress to edit our nation's official Pledge of Allegiance in the 1950's to include the phrase "under God" -- along with all those today who smile on that and wrongly insist that our great nation was founded on religious ideals.



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 Friday, September 26, 2008

Walking Cultural Activism: Got Reason?

By Greg Perkins @ 6:21 PM

Tammy and I thought it would be great to produce a series of T-shirt designs for those occasions when it is appropriate to wear our ideas on our sleeves.  Bonus points if they aren't just provocative but actually spark some good engagement!

Here is the first design.  It uses the same font and style of a certain famous ad campaign, echoing its clever device for pointing to something important we need and should want:



(Just click through to BoltOfReason.Com to check out all the available styles and colors. We of course love suggestions and requests -- we're already working on a lot of fun ideas, and if you are the first to hit us with a new one that we use in a future shirt design, you'll get one for free!)

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