Design Good

This May marks exactly 13 years since I founded Design Good Design Studio, to aid the efforts of organisations working towards creating positive social change.

After 13 years, I've made the bittersweet decision to wrap up the studio. Bitter in the way that it's sad to call an end my design work for such amazing causes. But, sweet in the way that it will enable me to focus my attention on the PhD in social/environmental psychology that I am just about to commence. I'm excited to be continuing my work aiding efforts towards creating positive social change by conducting psychological research into climate collective action.

Huge thanks to all of the wonderful people and organisations that I've had the pleasure of working with, and that have enabled me to keep my work going for well over a decade.

e.g., 350.org Australia, Amnesty International Australia, Australian Conservation Foundation, Australian Education Union (AEU), Australian Marine Conservation Society, Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC), Change.org, The Climate Reality Project - Australia & Pacific, Environment Victoria, Friends of the Earth Australia, GetUp!, Greenpeace Australia Pacific, The Australian Greens, Market Forces, Nature NSW, Queensland Conservation Council, Solar Citizens, The Sunrise Project, WWF-Australia, etc.

A selection of my design work from over the years will still be available from my Redbubble shop at https://designgood.redbubble.com

Here's to a more equitable, sustainable, and compassionate future.

Cheers,
Jarren Nylund, Principal Designer/Creative Director
Design Good Design Studio

I recently designed this logo for the Political and Environmental Psychology and Social Science (PEPSS) Seminar Series. An interdisciplinary series of presentations that connect academics, practitioners, and policy-makers.

Find out more: socialchangelab.net/pepss

A series of advertisements I designed for Nature NSW to protect the habitat of endangered species such as the koala, are appearing in several NSW-based community magazines (e.g., Coal Coast Mag, The Tawny Frogmouth, Pittwater Life).

Find out more: https://jarrennylund.medium.com/dont-chop-my-home-advertisement-58c8cbfad544

Sign the open letter: https://nature.org.au/forests

An advertisement I designed for Market Forces, calling out General Electric (GE) for trying to greenwash its fossil gas expansion, is appearing in today's New York Times.

Find out more about the project: https://jarrennylund.medium.com/ge-is-trying-to-greenwash-new-york-times-advertisement-aaa77b2e50e8

Take action: https://www.marketforces.org.au/campaigns/international/general-electric/vernova-action/

I just wrote a piece about the climate change merchandise I designed for the AYCC back in 2011.

The “I’m not as smart as a climate scientist, but I’m smart enough to listen to them” design ended up being gifted to Tony Abbott in jest.

Find out more: https://jarrennylund.medium.com/climate-change-merchandise-e300585ba2c9

An advertisement designed for Nature NSW to protect the habitat of endangered species, is appearing in the January 2023 edition of The Tawny Frogmouth magazine. It features a beautiful photo of a greater glider that was taken by one of Australia’s leading nature photographers, Pavel German.

Find out more about the project: https://medium.com//dont-chop-my-home-advertisement-58c8cbfad544

Sign the open letter: nature.org.au/forests

In 2016, I was given the honour of designing Amnesty International Australia’s “Defending Lives” booklet. It outlined the values and vision of the organisation for the following four years.

Read more: https://jarrennylund.medium.com/defending-lives-booklet-b755f4be6292

I truly believe in the power of t-shirts in creating change. They are one of the most inexpensive forms of advertising, allowing one to express their values to others without having to say a word.

After designing campaign materials for social movements for over a decade, I've accumulated quite a few t-shirt designs. And I have just made a selection of them available on my store.

Check them out: designgood.redbubble.com

I wrote a short article about the Climate Change Election billboard I designed for Environment Victoria in 2019 and how climate change relates to the incredible 2022 election outcome.

https://jarrennylund.medium.com/its-the-climate-change-election-billboard-f8efb863a940

Feeling quite honoured to have had some of my work for Market Forces featured today by Adbusters, the culture-jamming magazine that helped inspire me so many years ago to do the kind of work that I do now.

Find out more about the project: https://jarrennylund.medium.com/hyundai-ironic-advertisement-9783cd051918

What do you call selling electric cars while you build coal power plants? Vertically integrated climate destruction.

We love innovative tech solutions to the climate crisis, but technological progress alone will never be a solution, because what we consistently see is innovation co-opted by capitalism to further accelerate a planetary death machine.

We have to move beyond hyper-individualistic tech solutions. Why not bus? Why not bike? Why not build our communities close enough that we can walk?

Why not do less?

is the only way out of this crisis.

Spoof ad by the brilliant Jarren Nylund. Check out their full write-up on Hyundai here: https://jarrennylund.medium.com/hyundai-ironic-advertisement-9783cd051918

Here are some images of the clean energy tram we designed for Environment Victoria. It has been traveling around Melbourne this year. Let us know if you’ve seen it!

A full-page ad we designed for Market Forces was published in the Financial Times today. It urges Mitsubishi to align itself with its own policy commitment by getting out of dirty coal.

Find out more and send your own message to Mitsubishi: marketforces.org.au/mitsubishi/