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COANIQUEM: Safe Niños: Co-creating Innovative Healing Environments for Kids
Read MoreSocially Engaged Art: Art in Urban Community Green Spaces
Read MoreBuilding Trust, Bridging Divides: Visual Communication/Branding Programming for the City of Long Beach Police Department and Community
Read More“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
Design Smarter: Reimagining Electronics for Repair & Recycle
Read MoreSmart Image/Social Impact: Myth vs. Reality in the Immigration Debate
Read MoreA Future Vision for the Aquarium of the Pacific
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Safe Niños Development Studio: Charity Retail Pop-Up
Read MoreSpring 2018 - Host Department: Environmental Design
"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
Designing Democracy: The Future of Civic Engagement
Read MoreSpring 2018 - Host Department: Humanities & Sciences