“…more democracy, more openness, more humanity…” — Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, on his nation’s response to the horrific violence which occurred there last week. What a brave, optimistic, table-thumpingly urgent speech to give in the wake of almost a hundred deaths, the overwhelming majority of whom were teenagers.
I wanted to capture the resilience and hope of his statement, so I have done so in a very small way: I’ve put it on a t-shirt. I’ve submitted the t-shirt design to Threadless, the crowdsourced apparel website. If the design gets accepted to be sold on the site, Threadless pay the designer $2500 in cash and prizes.
If my design is accepted I’ll donate all the cash — and whatever I get from auctioning the prizes — to an appropriate charity in Norway to help the victims and their families of the awful bombing and shootings there last week.
You can help persuade Threadless to accept my design by ‘Liking’ it, tweeting about it or otherwise sharing it.
Alternatively, why not create your own “More democracy, more humanity” t-shirt and submit the design to Threadless yourself? The better the design, the more chance of it getting accepted.
