Design Advocacy: The Good Food Campaign
Project Description: In this project, students designed a poster to address the current state of our food system. The posters are a visual response to Will Allen’s A Good Food Manifesto for America, Michael Pollan’s 7 Rules for Eating and the movie Food, Inc. Will Allen’s manifesto is both a call to action and a challenge to our government leaders to ...
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