Project Archive
Read MoreList of all Designmatters Case Studies in Chronological order.
Projects
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Building Trust, Bridging Divides: Visual Communication/Branding Programming for the City of Long Beach Police Department and Community
Read MoreSmart Image/Social Impact: Myth vs. Reality in the Immigration Debate
Read More“Innovation emerges out of a deep partnership between design students and community members.”
Penny Herscovitch and Dan Gottlieb, Associate Professors, Environmental Design
Communicating the Wellbeing of a City with Santa Monica
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"A designer’s desire to change the world can be incompatible with empathy, which necessitates relinquishing the impulse to remake the world as it should be in favor of grasping the world as it is for others."
Arden Stern, Faculty, Humanities & Sciences
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.
Real Change Movement
Read MoreA real-world outreach to create long-term, self-sustaining design solutions to harness the community’s compassion and reduce homelessness in Pasadena.
The Aquarium of the Pacific: Open Ocean Project
Read MoreIn the Open Ocean studio, Designmatters students created a public awareness campaign for the Aquarium of the Pacific centered on the topic of ocean exploration.