Stickers Against the Right
The Amadeu Antonio Foundation ran a sticker design competition called Stickers Against the Right.
One of the winning designs comes available in fifty-packs, with proceeds funding their work against right-extremism, racism, and antisemitism in Germany.
It’s blunt. You’re paying for proof you’re against Nazis. Transactional, weird, and exactly how grassroots activism works when institutions won’t fund it. You make something, you sell it, the money goes to people doing actual work.
As a designer I like the competition angle. Don’t hire an agency. Let people design it, let the best win. Someone made this. Enough people wanted it to buy it fifty at a time.
The Foundation is what matters. They do the unglamorous work of strengthening civil society in a country that knows what happens when you stop paying attention. In Germany, that’s not theoretical. It’s recent.