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Eco Retreat Lab: Costa Rica Environmental Study Abroad
Read MoreSummer 2015 - Host Department: Environmental Design
“When I see really powerful student projects happen it’s because the students have genuinely become interested in and care about who will be using, seeing or encountering their design. It’s an exercise in empathy.”
Arden Stern, Humanities & Sciences, Faculty
CITES Project for the U.S. Department of the Interior
Read MoreA collaboration with the U.S. Department of Interior to raise awareness and effect policy change regarding illegal trafficking of endangered species in Chile.
Arthritis Foundation Studio
Read MoreDesignmatters students worked with the Arthritis Foundation to contemporize the Foundation’s brand strategy and create a multi-platform communication program.
“Innovation is deliberate. It’s about solving problems without creating new ones. To innovate is to enable one to share our natural empathy and be able to allow others a new means for expression. Innovation is something humans and other creatures have been doing forever, be it by instinct or experimentation. We innovate to survive and to create positive solutions to simplify and better our lives.”
Mari Nakano, Grad Media Design '09, Visual Design Lead, UNICEF Innovation Unit
SHE (Sustainable Health Enterprises) DesignStorm
Read MoreA three-day facilitated workshop at Art Center for Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) investigating potential product development in line with the revolutionary SHE brand.
The Homeboy Project
Read MoreA Graphic Design-led studio designed to elevate the Homeboy brand and amplifying its presence in Los Angeles.