EFF: The Design Behind EFF’s New Membership Shirt
The Design Behind EFF’s New Membership Shirt At EFF, a lot of the imagery we produce has a dystopian flavor — and with good reason. We are currently fighting battles against increased use of facial recognition tech, IMSI-catchers , and expansive copyright laws that may punish ordinary users with thousands of dollars in fines. And when we ’ re not fighting the NSA ’ s Big Brother machine , we ’ re pushing Facebook to quit abusing their users ’ data. Some of our bumper stickers and t-shirts even featured the slogan “ FIGHT DYSTOPIA .” But in one of our recent meetings to discuss our summer membership drive, our Development team asked itself the following question: What if we didn’t just focus on the threats to our liberty, but on the potential for a better digital future? Put another way, what will it look like when we succeed? What if we got the Internet right? Immediately after that meeting I did a quick whiteboard sketch which I later developed into some vector art...