As an art director it’s my job to grab people’s attention with great design everyday. So I set out to see if great design could have an impact on people in the most ignored platform. Scroll to the bottom to check out the project from the beginning.

This week I was finally able to catch up with Shely for a little bit. She wasn’t using the sign but she said that she was a third of the way to her goal, which is very exciting. She was really happy to be making some progress towards getting a ticket home to Mesa. I was also able to finish up a sign for Ulysses this week. I kept missing Ulysses every time I tried to catch up with him. I was able to drop the sign off with Fred, who said he would get it to Ulysses. Fred also informed me that he will be starting a job next week, which is really exciting as well. I also recently found out that I will be moving out of Chicago, so I’m sad to say the project will come to a close. With that said, I encourage anyone who would like to continue the project or start one of their own, to do so. I also encourage everyone to help in any way possible the next time they see someone asking for help, whether it’s money or just a friendly conversation. A big thanks to everyone who followed and shared the project, I really hope the project made a difference. Thank you!

This week’s update is a little bit shorter than usual. I was hoping to catch up with Shely to see how things were going but I wasn’t able to track her down. Hopefully she was just avoiding the incoming thunderstorms and I can catch up with her this weekend to see if the sign helped her out at all. I was able to get two new signs finished up for Fred and get those to him. He said he really liked the new signs and thought they were even better than the last ones. This week I’ve been working on a new sign for Ulysses. He asked me for another sign the other weekend when he and Fred’s signs got taken, so that’s become my project this week. Hopefully he’ll like his new sign as much as Fred did.