(source: the talented Frank Chimero)

Hard to argue with, Salvador…

Copenhagen, Denmark

This is the effective poster designed by Fabrica on behalf of the World Health Organization for deployment at the Conference on Climate Change last month. At a glance, it conveys the key message that climate change has devastating effects on human health. Art direction by Alexandre Demers Saumier; Creative direction by my friend Omar Vulpinari.

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Rural Manitoba, Canada

Here’s a big Happy New Year! to friends far and near… may 2010 bring you peace, good health, and much happiness. Be good to each other, OK?

Also, a hearty Thank You! for your visits to this blog during this past year—over 68,000 unique visits (75% from first time visitors) from 168 countries in 2009—that’s more than three times the traffic in 2008. A very special thanks to all who have contributed ideas and inspiration and have taken the time to contact me directly with your comments, thoughts, and suggestions.

Cheers!

(another one for you, Jennifer)

“There is only one difference between a madman and me.
I am not mad.” —Salvador Dali

(and a bit of passive-aggressive humour for you, Nicole… more here)

(meme-fighting greenwashing)*

*See Eddie Adams’ 1968 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo here of the (then U.S.-backed) Republic of Vietnam’s Chief of National Police, General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, executing handcuffed Vietcong prisoner Nguyễn Văn Lém on a Saigon street—a history-changing image that became an anti-war icon and is now a powerful meme.