Chrissy Levett

I'd like to celebrate and acknowledge Libby Collar a graduate designer from Manchester Met University who started working freelance for #Whyvote? youth led creative campaign and competition - to get young people engaged in democracy and empowered to register to vote, ahead of the 2024 UK General Election. Libby was unusual as she already had a healthy and much needed passion for politics and the democratic process. She entered and won a Creative Conscience award in 2023 for a project linked to this important theme. Her openness and creative input helped build a successful launch and then the development of the #Whyvote? campaign that engaged hundreds for young people across the UK. Libby continued to work with Creative Conscience for another campaign encouraging black and brown voters in the UK to get involved in the Mayor's election across London and beyond. She has become a valued member of the Creative Conscience community. Now developing and supporting a #Whyvote? USA programme ahead of the presidential elections in America. It's so good to see a passion young creative using their talents and skills to build a better world. Thanks Libby you're awesome.

I’d like to write about Eddy Altmann, a physics graduate who works at Creative Conscience. Eddy is a climate scientist, speaker, and educator who genuinely cares. He has shattered many preconceived ideas that people often have about those gifted with a scientific and logical mind. Eddy's ability to connect with people through powerful, brave, vulnerable, and personal stories is unparalleled. Science can seem cold, unfathomable, and unapproachable to many, yet Eddy brings compassion to the climate and planetary crisis that inspires others to have hope and, from that hope, to take much-needed action. It’s an honor to work with him. He is simply an amazing human—dedicated to working for little, yet always for the good of humankind.

I'm going to choose a young man called Archie Moore who is a designer and a graduate from Falmouth, School of Art. He created a typographic project which I think is a brilliant example of how anything that we do can positively change the world. He created this project called Extra Bold, an open source platform that has designed typographic letters and alphabets to help activists communicate better with clear, relevant typography for their marches and for their work. The power of words and typography and clear messaging is really important in movements and in organisations and I just love it because it was a completely selfless thing to put it out into the world.