Entry #2

The Average American is female. When I’ve mentioned this to groups of females in the US, they applaud - women as majority. When I mention this to males in the US, they also applaud - under the misconception, I suppose, that their odds of getting a date have suddenly increased. The fact that the [...]

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 [...]

Maryam Hosseinnia Shares her Experience of Continuing Education

Lately, I’ve been grappling with the following questions: how do experienced designers reach out for creative inspiration? What about professors who bask in the dynamic arena of academic exchange fuelled by young blood?
How important is it for a visual communicator to foster an evolving spirit of creativity in [...]

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 [...]

Reflections on self-validation and the role of “Social Design”

Mousharaka!
Icograda Design Week in Doha, March 2009.
Observe as Malaysian Muhamad Tamyez and Canadian David Berman collaborate to find missing body parts.

Then, watch as David Berman shows us an updated version of the Vulcan Greeting Ritual

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

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 [...]

What about the human condition needs improvement?
Claiming a personal and a collective uniqueness can be achieved in the participative action of designing our environment.In its essence, this declaration of uniqueness through the design and transformation of place, speaks to the power of branding and is illustrated in the Rugerero Genocide Survivors Village in Rwanda [...]