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“Images for Human Rights: Student Voices”: A Model Design Education and Public Outreach Project from the Art Center of Design.
How do young artists and designers address human rights?  How does the next generation of visual thinkers engage in a dialogue about freedom, human [...]

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 [...]

From Air Jordan to the Dalai Lama, photographer Tony Di Zinno made his bones on propaganda and print campaigns for the likes of Nike, Adidas and The North Face. His career spans assignments in 50 countries and on six different continents informing his work with a distinct global - and very human - perspective.
Tony [...]

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

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

Men wanted!
A startling trend, affecting half the American population, is happening and happening fast. According to Guy Garcia, in his book “The Decline of Men, How the American Male is Tuning Out, Giving Up and Flipping Off His Future,” the dominant American male, as we know and love him, may soon be extinct.
In this thoroughly [...]