Posters with purpose

Posters with Purpose is a platform for graphic designers and artists to publish and distribute meaningful posters. Visitors of the website would be able to print creations in high quality and order them from a print center. They can also donate some arbitrary amount of money to the creator and in exchange receive an NFT into their wallet, that they might want to collect, use as a pfp or keep for a good memory.

The project is seeking to rediscover the format and possibly onboard new audience into decentralized space, targeting graphic designers, activists and creatives that might stayed away due to speculative nature of nfts and crypto in general. Posters with Purpose is looking to rediscover nfts as collectables and memories for people. It is a speculation on the hype over scarce nfts and making profits, bringing abundance into the focus, which is needed to share and spread the knowledge and views. Another issue that might be addressed is inherited curation, where in the space there is so much discussion what is art and what is not, here everything is curated by having a message or purpose.

All of the creations uploaded to PwP are licensed with CC0 license.It’s amazing that there are so many beautiful posters created that lie in the public domain and can be uploaded to the platform and collected by people.

Users sign up on the platform using their crypto wallet, they are able to upload creations and specify whether they are the creator and would want to receive donations or if the creation is in the public domain they can specify original author, donations in this case would be sent to DAO address, that would distribute any donations to social impact organizations.

Collectors are able to view all of the creations by topic and upload timestamp. Whether they find the work they like, they are free to print creation in a good quality, they can also choose to make any value donation to original creator/dao and receive an NFT as a gift to their wallet. In the future those nfts can be used for token gated communities.

By printing posters collectors also curate the platform, eventually making a page kind of live protest page that is working 24/7 as posters are sorted by number of prints made in the past time. They can also choose to upload photos of posters placed in the environment completing so called “Proof of Use”

We used:

Zora for nft minting, displaying

Rainbowkit for wallets management, Wagmi for web3 integration

Nft storage for media storage

IPFS for website hosting

Ethereum for smart contracts handling

Firebase for realtime database, to be exchanged for Ceramic as soon as indexing is live

Technical challenges were to implement lazy mint feature on top of Zora NFT Creator to allow gasless submissions and also Pay as much as you want feature to support creators