In response to a request for proposals, Art Center students submitted designs for an Armenian Genocide Memorial to be erected in Pasadena’s Memorial Park.
Phase two of this anti-gun violence campaign focused on the creation of illustrated children’s books to carry the message to elementary school kids.
“I learned that working together as a team means finding the strengths in your partners, finding the strengths in yourself and bringing those together. But it’s also the ability to see weaknesses, especially your own and knowing the areas you need to work on to get better.”
Anna Violette, Student, Product Design
A collaboration to art direct a series of compelling bus shelter posters to help raise awareness for the Pasadena Bad Weather Shelter.
Designmatters partnered with NGO Un Techo para mi Pais and the community to co-create design solutions to overcome water poverty in Cerro Verde, a slum outside Lima, Peru.
Students 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.
Summer 2011- Host Department: Graphic Design
“It is one thing to know and design for an ‘end user’, but it’s another to sit across from someone in their own living room and hear their personal story. It humanizes the work we do and gives it meaning and value.”
Narbeh Dereghishian, Product Design '10,
A studio focusing on public education and action strategies to address the crisis of sea level rise, in partnership with the Aquarium of the Pacific.
Students from the Illustration Department created an exhibition that speaks to the topic of older adults and HIV/AIDS awareness.