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Awesome Objectivist Poster from Tori Press

Posted by Diana Hsieh on 24 August 2011 at 1:00 pm Objectivism, Shameless Commerce Division

Aug 242011

Objectivist graphic designer Tori Press is selling an awesome poster with “Life Lessons from Ayn Rand.” She asked me to post the announcement, and I’m happy to oblige!

I’m selling a limited edition run of “Life Lessons from Ayn Rand” posters. These posters are professionally designed and printed, with six quotations from Ayn Rand laid out in beautiful typography. The poster is 11″ x 17″ and suitable for framing. Quotations featured include:

“A is A.”
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.”
“Man is an end in himself. As man is a being of self-made wealth, so he is a being of self-made soul.”
“Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man’s life.”
“To say ‘I love you’ one must know first how to say the ‘I.’”
“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”

The cost of each poster is $15, plus $5 shipping unless you are in the Atlanta area. 20% of the sales price of each poster will be donated to ATLOS, the Atlanta Objectivist Society, to help fund its events and outreach. Please contact me at [email protected] if you are interested in purchasing a poster or would like more information.

Also, if you’re involved with an Objectivist student club or local group, you might consider buying one to use at events for your group.

Walking Cultural Activism: People of Reason

Posted by Greg Perkins on 27 February 2009 at 12:01 pm Activism, Cool, Shameless Commerce Division

Feb 272009

Tammy and I thought it would be great to produce a series of T-shirt designs for those occasions when it is appropriate to wear our ideas on our sleeves. Bonus points if they aren’t just provocative but actually spark some good engagement!

Here is a design that underscores a cardinal value, the primary virtue, our essential nature — highlighting a fundamental contrast with all those who tout being people of faith:

(Just click through to BoltOfReason.Com to check out all the available styles and colors. We of course love suggestions and requests — we’re already working on a lot of fun ideas, and if you are the first to hit us with a new one that we use in a future shirt design, you’ll get one for free!)

Walking Cultural Activism: A Personal Relationship

Posted by Greg Perkins on 15 January 2009 at 3:12 pm Activism, Cool, Shameless Commerce Division

Jan 152009

Here’s a design that offers a simple, wry response to the oddly-fashionable notion that Christianity isn’t a religion (no sir, it’s a relationship with Jesus): I have a personal relationship with reality.

You can’t tell at that resolution, but the font sports a distressed typewriter look, and there is a subtle emphasis on the word ‘reality’. Here’s a closer look:

Walking Cultural Activism: Of The World

Posted by Greg Perkins on 3 December 2008 at 3:08 pm Activism, Cool, Shameless Commerce Division

Dec 032008

This design speaks to the phenomenon of Christians who are taught to be in the world but not of the world and revel in being aliens here in reality. There is even a company named NOTW (“Not Of This World”) that sells them a staggering array of hip decals and clothing.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but that’s just messed up. The world is the source of every one of our values — that’s why we are in it, and why we should love being in it!

Yes, that is a reference to Leonardo da Vinci’s renowned Vitruvian Man drawing. “This image exemplifies the blend of art and science during the Renaissance and … represents a cornerstone of Da Vinci’s attempts to relate man to nature.” Here’s a closer look:

A Different Kind of Christmas Card

Posted by Paul Hsieh on 28 November 2008 at 12:01 am Atheism, Fun, Religion, Shameless Commerce Division

Nov 282008

Objectivist graphic designer John Powers has created these terrific “alternate Christmas cards”:

From the website:

Isaac Newton Christmas Cards

Celebrate reason and science on December 25th, instead of the same old bearded mystic!

I like to send Christmas cards, but as an atheist, I have had to limit myself to the hundreds of bland cards that neutrally say “Happy Holidays.” I decided that if it’s okay for (almost) everyone else to stamp, seal, and deliver their philosophy to me every Christmas, I’ll do just the same.

Sir Isaac Newton’s ideas helped to rescue mankind from drudgery and propel it into the space age. I am a lover of reason, and I love it unashamedly, and I want my friends to know it too. They will this Christmas. Yours can, too.

Details

Outside: “On December 25th, a Savior was born. He revealed eternal Truth, bringing Joy to millions. He astonished the world with His command over Nature. He changed history forever.”

Inside: “Happy Birthday, Sir Isaac Newton. December 25, 1642 – March 20, 1726″.

Web site and greeting card designs are copyright © 2008 John Powers.

(John also did free web design for the FIRM site.)

Walking Cultural Activism: One Nation

Posted by Greg Perkins on 12 November 2008 at 4:55 pm Activism, Cool, Shameless Commerce Division

Nov 122008

Here are two designs that respond to the religionists who called on Congress to edit our nation’s official Pledge of Allegiance in the 1950′s to include the phrase “under God” — along with all those today who smile on that and wrongly insist that our great nation was founded on religious ideals.

Walking Cultural Activism: Got Reason?

Posted by Greg Perkins on 26 September 2008 at 5:21 pm Activism, Cool, Shameless Commerce Division

Sep 262008

Here is the first design. It uses the same font and style of a certain famous ad campaign, echoing its clever device for pointing to something important we need and should want:

Explore Atlas Shrugged

Do you want to better understand and appreciate Ayn Rand's epic novel Atlas Shrugged? Explore Atlas Shrugged -- my in-depth course consisting of a podcast series, study questions, and other resources -- will help you do that.

Check out the free previews, then purchase access to the whole of Explore Atlas Shrugged for just $20.

The written materials of Explore Atlas Shrugged are also available from Amazon in paperback and kindle formats, and purchasers of those editions pay just $10 for access to the podcasts.

Responsibility & Luck

My first book, Responsibility & Luck: A Defense of Praise and Blame, is available for purchase in paperback and kindle formats.

Responsibility & Luck defends the justice of moral praise and blame of persons using an Aristotelian theory of moral responsibility, thereby refuting Thomas Nagel's "problem of moral luck."

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