Journal Entry from the Ruggerero Genocide Survivors’ Village Project

Excited to deliver the materials created by the senior graphic design class at Drexel University, I was back in Rwanda this past June. The class had worked hard to complete the assignment funded by the Sappi Foundation Grant Ideas that Matter to develop an identity and brand tools [...]

Praten over ontwerp, Part 1
AIGA XCD TalkingDesign goes to Rotterdam! Our TalkingDesign Session features graduates from the Willem de Kooning Academy (WDKA)
Introduction
The Academy has just launched the Cultural Diversity minor, in collaboration with students from the Department of Cultural & Social Studies (CMV) at Rotterdam University.
Research for the Project is commissioned by a partner from [...]

Entry #1

At the San Diego Y-Conference earlier this year, I gave a presentation outlining the social and political upheavals prior to the establishment of our office, Smart Design.  The presentation got the attention of the CrossCultural Junction, and an invitation to join as an ongoing contributor.

For a detailed account of the Icograda Design Week in Doha, March 2009, click here. Visit us here for a photo account

Designing for Others who are “Different”.
We must ask new questions when challenged to design for people we don’t understand and often we don’t know the questions to ask.
Jody Graff, Graphic Design Program Director, and I are teaching an independent study class at the Drexel University Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design. As part [...]

Introduction
Every decade, it seems, there are valiant standard-bearers for effective visual communication of data, information, and knowledge, of facts, concepts, and emotions,  who arise and publish guidebooks for business people, computer and information-technology professionals, and others who have not been exposed to the philosophy, principles, and techniques of information design and information visualization.
Currently, Edward Tufte [...]

An interview with Aaron Marcus
How does significant information come to the surface of our attention, present itself in an orderly fashion, and enable us to make good decisions that affect our own lives and that may affect the lives of many others?
Effective personal, community, professional, national, and global decision-making is always there as a challenge.
Anyone’s [...]

Measuring the Power of the Visual.
This poster by Chaz Maviyane-Davies was the first to run in the 30 Reasons internet campaign. Mr. Maviyane-Davies is originally from Zimbabwe, and for more than two decades has taken on the issues of consumerism, health, nutrition, social responsibility, the environment and human rights.
Join us in evaluating the role of [...]