April 21, 2013
April 21, 2013
April 21, 2013
April 21, 2013
April 21, 2013
April 21, 2013
April 21, 2013
April 21, 2013
Creativity is no longer the sole territory of a separate creative class. Artists and designers now face an activated public. Today’s users approach art and design with a growing expectation that they participate in the generation of content and the shaping of their own experiences. The burgeoning DIY, Open Source and Free Culture movements reflect [...]
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Why do designers obsess about the future? Admit it. We do. In the after party of a recent conference—and why is this where all the best ideas bubble up?—this point was driven home by Bernard Canniffe of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He leaned over and said, in an exaggerated whisper, “The secret [...]
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Out of My Hands: Washington, DC Tue, Oct 16, 2012 Polygraph 528 F Street Terrace SE Washington, DC 20003 For the second night of AIGA DC Design Week 2012, participants joined workshop leaders Helen Armstrong and Zvezdana Stojmirovic to co-create a unique “DC” alphabet. The cool offices of Polygraph, a vibrant design studio tucked away in an [...]
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A Participatory Workshop led by Helen Armstrong and Zvezdana Stojmirovic Monday, Oct 15, 2012, Maryland Institute College of Art photography by Jennifer Marin To launch AIGA Baltimore’s Design Week 2012, Zvezdana Stojmirovic and I led a participatory workshop. Our goal: to co-create a unique “Baltimore” alphabet. Working assembly-line style, each person filled up letter outlines [...]
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Download Instructions: critique_prompts Hello Designers and Educators! We want to improve the graphic design critique through a new flickr project. We’re collecting critique prompts from awesome people like you, and we’d love for you to contribute. Here’s what the project involves: think of a critique prompt, hand-letter it on a piece of paper, take a [...]
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Thanks Julie Spivey! (Taken by Julie in Athens, Georiga.)
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Last year Jamie Turpin, a graduate student at Savannah College of Art & Design, asked to use my article “Why Graphic Design Theory” in a Typography Studio project. In the resulting piece, Jamie intermixed her interior architecture background and graphic knowledge to create a wood and chipboard accordion that has 9 panels and is 45” [...]
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Participate Pilsen! Rod Northcutt (Miami Assistant Professor of Sculpture) and I travelled to the Czech Republic in July to lead a Participatory Art and Design Workshop at The University of West Bohemia. Our students came from Slovakia, Syria, Mexico, Spain, Denmark and the Czech Republic. Over the course of a week, we asked them, working [...]
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One of our students asked me recently about design sites that claim to crowdsource design. Although many fabulous participatory projects are currently happening that use peer production in innovative ways (see participatorydesign.net), those do not include the projects on sites like crowdspring.com and 99designs.com. Rather these sites show that the participatory strategy of crowdsourcing can [...]
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Participate has been translated into Korean! A Chinese version is in the works.
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