Vote!
Vote as if your life depends on it! “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Our challenge is to mobilize a new coalition of conscience to restore the Voting Rights Act, strengthen voting rights and broaden voter access in the legislatures of the 50 states.” — Martin Luther King III
As a mother, graphic designer, and artist —I am a concerned citizen of the United States. Our country is at a social, economic, environmental, and political turning point in its history and the outcome of future elections will have an immense impact on all of our lives and our planet. Therefore, I decided to speak out on the importance of voting.
Here are several VOTE posters that I designed from my @lndesign.vote instagram account.
Voting Rights Throughout United States History
How Americans Have Voted Through History: From Voices to Screens
“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.” — George Orwell
“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” ― George Orwell, 1984
Wake up and vote!
Vote to save butterflies!
Butterflies and moths are indicators of a healthy environment and healthy ecosystems.
Their fragility makes them quick to react to change so their struggle to survive is a serious warning about our environment.
Habitats have been destroyed on a massive scale, and now patterns of climate and weather are shifting unpredictably in response to pollution of the atmosphere but the disappearance of these beautiful creatures is more serious than just a loss of color in the countryside.
HELP conserve butterflies by becoming a Citizen Scientist. This will improve our whole environment for wildlife and enrich the lives of people now and in the future.
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.” ― John Keats, Bright Star
Butterfly illustrations: Charles Dessalines D'orbigny
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. About 1 in 8 U.S. women (about 12.4%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. In 2018, an estimated 266,120 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in women in the U.S., along with 63,960 new cases of non-invasive (in situ) breast cancer.
Vote to help increase the amount of breast cancer research funding and to ensure better access to treatment for women and men.
Donate: bcrf.org
Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution: Somewhere we must come to see that human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals. Without this hard work, time becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always right to do right.
Excerpt from Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s commencement address for Oberlin College on June 1965.
Photo: Bob Fitch Photography Archive
Who was Ada Lovelace?
She was the 19th century mathematician and writer who wrote the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine.
She was the first computer programmer.
She was the only legitimate child of Lord Byron.
She was a countess.
Charles Babbage (creator of the Analytical Engine) called her the ‘Enchantress of Numbers.’
She was the world’s first debugger.
She suggested that computers could one day effect society, or be used as a collaborative tool.
In other words, she was an amazing innovator!
Thanks to Ada Lovelace for her contribution to the mathematical world.
Her dreams can be your dreams. Vote!
Painting of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1840) by Alfred Edward Chalon.
