The Plan Starts Here

@theplan42

This is the start of something that can be truly beautiful; a start to something that could alter the way we interact with one another. I want to create something, but I can't do it without you. I encourage you to follow this blog, follow the Plan42 Twitter, and tell your friends to do so as well. You will be asked to join in on the project very soon. Stay tuned.

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pentagramdesign

To celebrate their 40th anniversary, Canongate Publishing asked some of their authors, designers, illustrators and collaborators for a personal response to the number 40. Angus Hyland and his wife Marion Deuchars who have both worked with Canongate, responded to the brief with forty digits - prints of their own hands and feet.

dothegreenthing

Switch Off Engine by Harry Pearce

Today Pentagram partner Harry Pearce takes a warning sign from the depths of the car world and reuses it to create a messages that instructs us to step away from our vehicles and go by foot instead.

“The visual language of obedience demands our attention and compliance,” says Harry. “Maybe the car industry should follow its own rules.”

Why?

London motorists spent an average of 82 hours stuck in traffic last year. That’s 82 hours in a smoke-spewing, soul-crushing box on wheels that could’ve been spent doing something better. Like walking.

How?

The days are getting longer, the weather is getting warmer and the idea of walking to work is back on the cards for many of us. Walk to Work Week is happening in the UK between the 12-16 May. Sign up and put your best foot forward.

Join the world’s biggest celebration of our brilliant planet and sign up for Earth Hour on 29 March at 8.30 pm.

We’re selling this poster printed on FSC paper with sustainable ink for £12 plus postage and packing with all proceeds going back to the Do The Green Thing charity.

forbes

In the course of your lives, perhaps without any plan on your part, you’ll see suffering that’s going to break your heart. When it happens don’t turn away from it — that’s the moment that change is born.

Melinda Gates (via forbes)

forbes

When you are starting out in your 20s, it is natural to think about all that you will have and do once you start making money, and making more money. That gives money way too much power over your life. It’s not about how much you make, but the life that you make with the money you have.

Suze Orman, 62, television host, author (via forbes)