Friends of the Bad Weather Shelter Campaign
Read MoreA collaboration to art direct a series of compelling bus shelter posters to help raise awareness for the Pasadena Bad Weather Shelter.
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Safe Agua Peru
Read MoreDesignmatters 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.
"As artists and designers, we are in a unique position. What we choose to say with this voice that defines us as human beings."
Patrick Hruby Illustration, Student
Aquarium of the Pacific: Project Coastal Crisis
Read MoreA studio focusing on public education and action strategies to address the crisis of sea level rise, in partnership with the Aquarium of the Pacific.
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 More“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,
Case 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.
Mpala: Solar Camel Clinic Innovation
Read MoreA multilevel project to design and develop innovative methods to improve health services for remote Kenyan communities.