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Everything is OK
September 2, 2008
Blade finds himself in France, surely the most wonderful country in Europe. Even here, though, Blade is keeping a weather eye on topics dear to Swordplay’s heart, and as such he cannot resist telling you that Everything really is OK. Or, as they say at Everything is OK:
Everything is OK began as a simple project in our design studio. Faced with the mounting inequities in our world and culture, we set out to assemble a list of resources that would point people toward positive action. We launched simple website (everythingisok.com) as a means of sharing these links. To promote the site, we created barricade tape with the incongruous message “everything is ok.”
The tape was first deployed during the 2006 US election, and then again during a massive pillow fight in San Francisco.
The response to the tape was overwhelming, and we quickly realized that people were more interested in the tool we had created than the project it was designed to promote. It started showing up in design annuals, museum collections, books and blogs. People started writing to us asking for tape of their own. Gradually, we became interested in exploring the possibilities represented by this intersection of design, art and activism.
Today, Everything is OK exists as a kind of social design experiment in subversive positivism. It explores the relationship between medium and message, challenges accepted modes of communication, and provides everyday citizens with tools for social commentary.
Check out the Everything is OK site - it’s really quite wonderful.
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