Objective:
Encourage conversation around the vaccine and how UCLA can help make that happen.
The Project:
Poster featuring the UCLA Bear mascot and a mock up of a magazine cover to encourage UCLA to help Free the Vaccine.
TRY THIS:
Make it specific to your community.
What worked?
Strongly featured UCLA.
About this project
Creators:
- Crane Squad
December, 2020
United States, Los Angeles
10inchesx14inches
Link to Original or High-Res file
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Original files can be provided for exhibition
Reflections from Crane Squad
Objective:
Pressure McGill University to sign the Open Covid Pledge
The Project:
We designed this as an update to our initial Free The Vaccine Tattoo idea (linked below).
STRATEGIES:
TRY THIS:
Paste it onto a selfie and share on social media. #FreeTheVaccine #PeoplesVaccine
Turn it into a temporary tattoo.
Make it a snapchat filter.
What worked?
It can become a cheap, easily reproducible, physical object!
About this project
Creators:
- Olivia Bonardi
October, 2020
Canada, Montreal
1,500 x1,500 pixels
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Original files can be provided for exhibition
Links:
Objective:
To create a sticker that represents the Free the Vaccine movement so the word can be spread out (by students and such)
The Project:
The image brings to life what the Free the Vaccine campaign stands for, metaphorically. We envision a world where the vaccine is “unchained” and “free” from barriers so individuals all across the world are able to obtain it, without worrying about cost and accessibility.
STRATEGIES:
TRY THIS:
Print it and stick it.
Make it specific to your target.
What worked?
The design is simple, yet to the point and gets across the mission of the campaign pretty effectively. It also makes for a cute sticker, should anyone choose to walk around with it on their personal items!
About this project
Creators:
October, 2020
Image/graphic, Online/web thing
United States, New York
1080 x 1080 pixels
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Original files can be provided for exhibition
Reflections from Eshita Garg
Objective:
To make graphics that use the universities styles, fonts, colors to be shared on social media and via emails and used to put pressure on university decisionmakers to sign the Open COVID Pledge.
The Project:
A series of graphics intended for social media and emails that ask students, alumni, and faculty to put pressure on university decisionmakers to sign the Open COVID Pledge.
Coming Soon
TRY THIS:
Make a version for your target.
What worked?
We sent emails to decision makers with the future social media post, and the TTO office responded, still waiting to hear their response to our AUTM email reply.
About this project
Creators:
- Eric John Olson
- Eshita Garg
- Mary Clare Rietz
- Jocelyn Edens
- Zeph Fishlyn
July, 2020
United States, Seattle
various social media sizes
Other Notes:
- Original files can be provided for exhibition
Reflections from Eric Olson
Objective:
As a project, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Scientists aimed both to start conversations with scientists and incentivize them to sign the Open COVID Pledge. As an interesting project/piece of art the book was meant to captivate the attention of scientists we reached out to. Then it aimed to incentivize them by offering recognition of their work by including them among a collection of other important figures, IF they signed the OCP or worked in some other way to free the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Project:
Goodnight Stories for Rebel Scientists is the beginning of a book that tells the tales of scientists and access to medicines champions who worked diligently to end the COVID-19 pandemic in a just and equitable way. The book is a series of square images. The front cover is dark blue with the title “Goodnight Stories for Rebel Scientists” with drawn images of a syringe, the COVID-19 virus, an erlenmeyer flask, and a face wearing a mask. Following the cover are entries for two scientists, Hanneke Schuitemaker and Marion Koopmans. Each entry has a story written about the scientist and a portrait of them made by different artists. The last page of the book draft features an email written to the featured scientists asking for their help finishing their story in the book and to sign the Open COVID Pledge.
TRY THIS:
Make a version for your target.
What worked?
The project helped us get the attention of Marion Koopman’s assistant. It also brought us in contact with access to medicines champion Ellen ‘t Hoen who gave our group instrumental advice in carrying forward with the campaign and who will also be featured in the book.
About this project
Creators:
- Esther Barfoot
- Kasia Horodynska
- Vreer
July, 2020
Netherlands, Amsterdam
2658 X 2658 pixels
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Other Notes:
The project was inspired by the book Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls which shares the stories and work of important women throughout time.
- Original files can be provided for exhibition
Reflections from Fiona Davey
What skills or perspectives did the collaborators bring to this?
Each collaborator brought different skills from art, design, writing, and organizing.
What would be your next steps, building on this idea, if you had a million dollars and all the time and skills in the world?
If we had a million dollars and all the time in the world we would turn this project into a printed book with entries of all the important figures in access to medicines. We’d also commission portraits for each entry and support artists around the world.
Objective:
Get CureVac to sign the Open COVID Pledge
The Project:
The cartoon targets CureVac (a German biotechnology company working on a COVID-19 vaccine) to sign the Open COVID Pledge. It depicts the problem of access to a COVID-19 vaccine and shows ShareVac (in place of CureVac) coming in as a superhero solving the problem of access with the Open COVID Pledge.
STRATEGIES:
TRY THIS:
Share it on social media. #FreeTheVaccine #PeoplesVaccine
Make a version for your target.
What worked?
The cartoon depicts the problem well and is able to grab the attention of the viewer with its oddness of animations, voiceover and music.
About this project
Creators:
- Caitlin Berrigan
- Christina Meyer
- Daphne Lenz
- Sina Wahby
June, 2020
Germany, Berlin
45 seconds
Other Notes:
- Original files can be provided for exhibition
Links:
Reflections from Katharina Wolfenstetter
What were some of the responses to this work?
People love it! Some people were confused at first, but the oddness of the cartoon has the power to draw people in.
What would be your next steps, building on this idea, if you had a million dollars and all the time and skills in the world?
We would love to work on an English version of both cartoon and website. Additionally we would like to provide the cartoon as a template for other groups and other targets.
Objective:
The objective behind the video was to raise awareness of UT’s role in the pandemic, to raise awareness of the petition, and to move university researchers to sign it.
The Project:
“Push the University of Texas to Openly Share Their Research for COVID-19” is the title of my video on YouTube. The video itself is a music parody of “What a Wonderful World It Would Be [if we freed the vaccine]”, targeting the University of Texas Pharmacy department and representatives from AskBio pharmaceuticals.
TRY THIS:
Share it on social media. #FreeTheVaccine #PeoplesVaccine
Make a version for your target.
What worked?
The quality of the video and audio (and singing!) wasn’t too shabby. I was very limited to my equipment and space (and singing capabilities), but I managed to produce the video very simply in one day. It could have been even simpler and it still would have been effective. Making a music parody was not as hard as I initially imagined. So, having just made it, whether or not it got the response I desired, was still a success in itself.
About this project
Creators:
June, 2020
United States, Austin
1920×1080
Other Notes:
According to UT, “researchers are racing to develop innovations in fields like virology, immunology, epidemiology and medical engineering to support the fight against COVID-19” (giving.utexas.edu/covid-research/). They have already developed and licensed an innovative vaccine delivery method to AskBio pharmaceutical (hnews.utexas.edu/2020/03/04/new-delivery-method-could-transform-vaccine-distribution-to-remote-developing-areas/).
I believe UT should pledge to make their intellectual property available free of charge for use in ending the COVID-19 pandemic and minimizing the impact of the disease! So instead of just posting online about our petition for UT students/staff/professors and other members of the Austin community to sign urging UT to join other heroic companies and universities in making the Open Covid Pledge (opencovidpledge.org)… I thought instead that I would try to make an eye-catching video with the hopes of gaining more traction on social media.
- Original files can be provided for exhibition
- The work can be reproduced on site with instructions (provided)
Reflections from Dannie Snyder
What would be your next steps, building on this idea, if you had a million dollars and all the time and skills in the world?
I would love a team who could simply help me make social media posts on a regular basis, with targeting popular groups/individuals on social media who might be interested in sharing our video, and with taking other measures for making the video go viral. It would be cool to make the process of sharing the video more interactive, where students/staff/professors at UT in particular could be part of the fun and voice their own opinion rather than merely sharing/re-posting our video. It might mean remaking the video and getting students/staff/professors to lip-synch (see next reflection question).
If someone else were going to make/use/do something like this, what advice would you give them?
I had to unfortunately make this video on my own, but I believe it would be so much more effective if I had a team of people, videos showcasing different UT students/staff/professors lip-synching. For example, the #JoleneVaccineChallenge by another team with Free the Vaccine was very popular (they also made a parody using Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” song to target Vanderbilt University).
Objective:
We mailed this to the office of a UCSD sleep researcher who has received substantial Covid-related funding and is very active on social media, hoping he would amplify our message.
The Project:
A deep blue sleep mask embroidered with the words “Sleeping well… a vaccine is free” sits on red felt inside a wooden box with a sliding lid. The lid is painted with the words “Will you accept our dream?”
TRY THIS:
Make a version for your target.
Build a performance around it.
What worked?
We tailored this piece to this specific individual because he is a sleep researcher. It successfully taught us to consider our audience, although he did not respond.
About this project
Creators:
- Eshita Garg
- Eric Olson
- Mary Clare Rietz
- Jocelyn Edens
- Zeph Fishlyn
May, 2020
United States, San Diego
3x5x7″
Other Notes:
Reflections from Zeph Fishlyn
What would be your next steps, building on this idea, if you had a million dollars and all the time and skills in the world?
Our next steps are continuing to target researchers and making more sleep eye masks. If I had a million dollars, it would be easier to get more (fancier) material to quickly roll out many more masks for the researchers. If I had all the time in the world, I would continue working on making the sleep eye masks non-stop and hope to get a bunch of people on board in helping us create these awesome, soft bundles of self-care!
If someone else were going to make/use/do something like this, what advice would you give them?
Teamwork makes the dream work! Feel free to take your time – homemade masks have an amazing feel to them and make it extremely personal for the researchers. Don’t be afraid to stalk your targets and create the masks specifically for them. Ask yourselves: what makes them unique and how can this mask reflect that? Research your targets and make sure to keep in touch with the targets throughout the process. We want them to be surprised and also for them to know we truly appreciate their work! We want the targets to rock those sleep eye masks and share our dream together.
Objective:
Invite an Indiana University researcher whose lab is working on a COVID vaccine for young children, to pledge to license his work via the Open Covid Pledge.
The Project:
A 1-page comic illustrating why one Indiana University researcher should license his lab’s work via the Open Covid Pledge. We emailed it to him with a note about how much we admire his work and a recommendation for how to print the image.
TRY THIS:
Make a version for your target.
What worked?
It didn’t generate a response from the researcher, but the project helped me build my image-making skills, and I learned a lot about the software I used to create it. I’d never made a visual narrative like this before!
About this project
Creators:
May, 2020
Image/graphic, Online/web thing, Writing
United States, Indianapolis
14 x 8.5 inches when printed
Other Notes:
- Original files can be provided for exhibition
Reflections from Laura Holzman
What skills or perspectives did the collaborators bring to this?
I made this drawing mostly independently – but it was inspired directly by a comic that one of the other groups drafted to send to researchers at the Salk Institute. Theirs also started with the famous quote from Dr. Salk. I liked their idea so I made a new and expanded version, tailored for a different researcher.