CREATIVES FOR UKRAINE: A FREE PLATFORM INVITING THE CREATIVE COMMUNITY TO SUPPORT UKRAINE
DENIZ AKKAYA
Creatives For Ukraine is an open platform for creatives from around the world showing solidarity with the people of Ukraine, who are fighting for the world as we know it.
February 24th, Putin launched a devastating attack on Ukraine, a democracy of 44 million people. Now, Europe is witnessing its first major war in decades, while Ukrainians alone are fighting for the democratic world as we know it by themselves.
In response to the war, creatives from Lithuania launched Creatives for Ukraine, an open platform where designers, illustrators, and photographers all over the world can submit their work for free use. The situation that we are facing now is not only a war on a sovereign country but also information warfare, so the platform invites the world’s creative community to take their biggest weapon – creativity & show the real face of this disastrous invasion for the world to see.
Creatives for Ukraine platform was created to amass digital art and illustrations that can draw attention to a difficult subject matter, help express feelings and share the truth for the world to see. The secondary intent was to create a platform that would allow members of the media, non-profits and other organizations to freely access a selection of creative images depicting the war in Ukraine, allowing them to share illustrations with a wider audience.
