Teen Art Park: A Place for Artistic Expression
Read MoreStudents address the daily challenges and aspirations of greater Pasadena’s at-risk teenagers and set out to design an art park to foster safe, artistic expression.
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Project U/ HIV-AIDS Awareness Campaign with LAUSD
Read MoreSummer 2011- Host Department: Graphic Design
"Socially conscious designers can inject new ways of thinking into the world to help deal with pervasive social and environmental problems (such as inequity and the hyper-production of wasteful and harmful things)."
Mari Nakano, Grad Media Design '09, Visual Design Lead, UNICEF Innovation Unit
The Graying of AIDS: Off the Wall
Read MoreStudents from the Illustration Department created an exhibition that speaks to the topic of older adults and HIV/AIDS awareness.
SHE (Sustainable Health Enterprises): Awareness Campaign
Read MoreCase Studies for Social Change
Read MoreThis seminar examines the history of community-based art and design practices through a collaboration anchored in the historic Watts Art Towers district of Los Angeles.
Human Rights Public Education Exhibition
Read MoreThe United Nations Population Fund asked Designmatters to partner in creating a call to action in support of their goals in advancing human rights for young people.
"As an artist, my primary aspiration is to connect with other human beings. What better way to actually do so than by actually making a difference in someone’s life?"
Fatima Ghanavi, Graphic Design, Student
Mpala: Solar Camel Clinic Innovation
Read MoreA multilevel project to design and develop innovative methods to improve health services for remote Kenyan communities.