“Everyone Has the Right” Named Rhode Island Festival Semi Finalist
The Oscar-qualifying Flickers Rhode Island Intl Film Festival has named our animated film “Everyone Has the Right” – produced for the FDR Presidential Library – a 2022 Semi Finalist.
You Can Do Better Than Cosmetic Improvements
You know this scenario: a nonprofit is awarded a small grant to make improvements to, say, their website. It’s not enough money to build the ideal site for the organization, yet too much money just to make cosmetic improvements to their current set up.
Deeper Understandings of Our Past and Present in the Digital Sphere
Digital scholarship changes the way we understand the past. By increasing the accessibility of research tools, digital collections and archives make a previously unachievable depth of research and discovery possible.
The Fight in Ukraine is a Fight for Truth
Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine.
We need to start with that message. As a communications firm, we feel dismay when we witness these mechanisms used to whitewash atrocities, and the Russian atrocities taking place defy comprehension.
Getting Comfortable With Being At Home
You remember those first days of lockdown? That rudderless feeling of not knowing what comes next? Wondering how you’re going to sustain the things you’ve been working on?
Going Straight to the Source
Primary sources connect us to our history and the people who made it. President Roosevelt created the FDR Presidential Library and Museum with this in mind, turning over the records of his administration to the national trust (along with a great deal of private property).
How well do you know what’s important to you?
Everyone has the right to freedom of expression.
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
My war refugee grandmother told me a story about passing books in secret among her neighbors when she was a young woman in Ukraine.
At Home with the Roosevelts Ep. 26 – Museum Collection: We Want FDR Again
An election year is a great time for a visual trip through FDR’s political campaigns with FDR Library Supervisory Curator Herman Eberhardt. Learn the stories behind dozens of colorful and unusual items from the Museum’s extensive collection of political posters, buttons and ephemera. Directed and produced by Drake Creative.
Stop doing what you’re supposed to do
What are you supposed to be doing right now?
Probably not reading this article. I’m a distraction. I’m the kid your mom warned you about, the one who will keep you from doing what you’re supposed to do.
Following your fear in the design process
Stryker Theater, PIT NYC, image credit Peoples Improv Theater
The back wall of the Peoples Improv Theater (The PIT) in New York says in large letters: Follow the Fear.
Drake Creative, LLC