Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

I read about the Girl Effect in one of my monthly mag­a­zines (Marie Claire, I think.) It’s an orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cated to empow­er­ing girls over the world as our future lead­ers, in the belief that they have a vital role in the suc­cess of their com­mu­ni­ties. They put it sim­ply in their own words:

“There are 600 mil­lion ado­les­cent girls liv­ing in poverty in the devel­op­ing world. By giv­ing one of these girls a chance, you start the girl effect. When girls have safe places to meet, edu­ca­tion, legal pro­tec­tion, health care, and access to train­ing and job skills, they can thrive. And if they thrive, every­one around them thrives, too.”

Sounds like a great cause to me. And although I’m not a fan of the site’s exces­sive use of flash, or intro movie that’s prob­a­bly a cou­ple of min­utes too long (and strangely aggres­sive at times); I really admire some of the design choices they’ve made. Big bold type rein­forces the pow­er­ful mes­sage, and the hand­made feel­ing of the graph­ics empha­sizes the fact that girls can make a per­sonal con­tri­bu­tion to their future suc­cess and the suc­cesses of those around them.

Learn more right here, or make a dona­tion to the cause.