The Client
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development.
The Challenge
The Electronic Frontier Foundation wanted to create a “Catalog of Missing Devices,” illustrating the gadgets that could and should exist, if not for bad copyright laws that prevent innovators from creating the cool new tools that could enrich our lives.
The Solution
I worked with EFF to create nine layouts “advertising” products or services for the Catalog. As well as designing the ads, I wrote some of the copy and invented product and corporation names and taglines. I also art-directed photoshoots for several pieces. The finished images are featured on the EFF website and were part of a print calendar. More importantly, the EFF is using them to publicize a lawsuit it is bringing against the Department of Justice, challenging the constitutionality of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s anti-circumvention provisions on First Amendment grounds.
