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For this pecha kucha presentation, it's not required that you use personally created or copyright free imagery. What's most important is that your imagery is selectively chosen, controlled according to your presentation's theme, and high quality enough for a projection presentation.

Because it's not likely that many of your professional design projects will be so lenient with copyright restrictions, I wanted to share a few helpful resources for locating stock photography, public domain imagery, and images with creative-commons copyright.

Stock photography sites

30 sites for royalty-free images

http://dzineblog.com/2008/09/30-sites-download-free-stock-images.html

NOTE: Dreamstime offers a lot of images for between $3-5, which is incredibly affordable compared to the average cost of $200/image on most other sites.

Public domain imagery

A list of public-domain photograph sites

http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/public-domain-photographs.html

Tells you what resources are good for finding specific types of imagery (e.g., agricultural, historical, aerospace, etc)

5000 Free Stock photos (public domain)

http://www.public-domain-photos.com/

BurningWell
Repository of public domain images

http://www.burningwell.org/gallery2/main.php

Creative commons imagery

Flickr search

http://www.flickr.com/search/

Click on Advanced search to search creative commons images only

Wikimedia Commons

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Just a few things to get whet your palate for book design and pecha-kucha presentations over the weekend.

Pecha Kucha 20x20
6 min and 40 seconds of amazingly capitvating imagery and narration
See some examples

Chip Kidd
A graphic designer and author best known for his book cover designs
Chip's website 
Hear him talk about his latest design

The Book Cover Archive
All things book covers and book cover designers
Check it out

Penguin classics
Known for pairing good books with great cover designs, Penguin publishing is celebrating its 75th anniversary.
Check out their website for all sorts of book design research and inspiration

Penguin & Pelican Collection on Flickr

Anything else? Post on your blog or comment on this post! See you on Monday!

The following videos may provide additional insight into the struggles of marginalized groups and the priviledge that accompanies being a member of a "normal" group in society.

It Gets Better: Dan and Terry

Mirrors of Priviledge: Making Whiteness Visible

After critique yesterday, we talked about looking at your current campaign ideas through a couple different lenses, to provide a different perspective and perhaps add a more effective 'hook' to your designs. This entails looking at the "Join me" campaign from the angle of the individuals who are asking for this movement towards inclusion, as well as trying to understand how to speak to those individuals who most need to hear this message (i.e., those who are oppressing, unwelcoming, thoughtless, and bigoted in their thoughts and actions).

Much of the issues that we've heard about (and which we may be least familiar with) are those of individuals with non-conforming gender identities or sexual preferences. The links listed below are starting points to help you get a better sense of the plight of these targeted individuals.

National campaign examples:

• It Gets Better Project
• The Trevor Project

Local resources:

• GLBTA program office, UMN-TC (Don't forget to attend the event on Weds, Oct 19!)
• Bisexual Organizaing Project

Local articles:

• "Outed in public: Clouded by Fear" (MN Daily article, Oct 17, 2011)
• "Hate crime assault in Uptown Minneapolis area…" (Jan 25, 2009)

Remember, today's ideal designer is able to embed a sense of empathy within their design process. This requires getting as close to the "design problem" as possible, and researching the factors that play a role in its creation and solution.