Projects

Uncool 2: The Anti-Gun Violence Project

Public Policy

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.

Supporting the Programme of Action of the ICPD: A Campaign to Promote Young People’s Voices and Choices

The 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.

Uncool

Friends of the Bad Weather Shelter Campaign

“The two-week experience on the ground in Chile was instrumental. We all felt the same thing; we all saw and experienced the same realities together. We all lived the same moments. And that really helped us later as a design team, as we related our ideas and concepts back to our shared experience.”
Andres Zavala, Student, Environmental Design

Safe Agua Peru

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.

Teen Art Park: A Place for Artistic Expression

Public Policy

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.

Project U/ HIV-AIDS Awareness Campaign with LAUSD

Summer 2011- Host Department: Graphic Design

Rethinking the Food Label

“Innovation emerges out of a deep partnership between design students and community members.”
Penny Herscovitch and Dan Gottlieb, Associate Professors, Environmental Design

Aquarium of the Pacific: Project Coastal Crisis

Sustainable Development

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.

The Graying of AIDS: Off the Wall

Students from the Illustration Department created an exhibition that speaks to the topic of older adults and HIV/AIDS awareness.

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