Stories of Inspirational New Yorkers

The Cyrano Project will collaborate with Good News People (http://www.goodnewspeople.org) to present:

Inspirational New Yorkers: an Exhibition of Good News Stories about New Yorkers, for New Yorkers.

We will create a public exhibition of posters specially designed by New York design students that will each tell the moving story of a New Yorker who has succeeded in overcoming a challenge or in making a difference with the help of one of New York’s 25,000 nonprofits.

The exhibition of these uplifting stories will illuminate the significant and positive role New York’s nonprofits play in the life of the city and it will be a demonstration of the power of the designer and printed communications to serve good causes. A book will be created showcasing the posters and describing how the design students responded to the stories that they discovered.

Here's what we'll do:

Garth Walker Workshop
20 selected students from the New York’s leading design schools will create the posters. They will be guided in a one-of-a-kind Workshop to be led by Garth Walker, the internationally renowned Graphic Designer from Durban, South Africa where he edits the groundbreaking I-jusi magazine. (http://www.ijusi.co.za/).

Walker is known for encouraging designers to develop a local design language that reflects the immediate surroundings. This will be a very special opportunity for the students to learn from a master and bring his thinking to these New York stories.

Public Exhibit – The One Club
The exhibition of the posters created by the students will be premiered in December 2007, at the prestigious One Club for Art and Copy, who have generously made their gallery available.(http://www.oneclub.org)


Book - Inspirational New Yorkers
A book will be created, presenting the posters along with quotes from the subjects and quotes from students who worked on the project. Text, photographs and other rich documentation from the project will show how these creatives responded to these real people who are overcoming real challenges and to the nonprofits that support their efforts.