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Secret Spring Break: LA Field Study — 2.26.2016
Friday was the last real day of the trip, even though we didn’t leave LA until Saturday AM (very, very early … but I’ll get to that). We kicked off Friday with a bright and early 6 AM Graphic Design...
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A Dedication
Tomorrow morning at this time I’ll be defending my thesis … and I’m getting nervous. I’m planning to roll out the thesis here in small, digestible, and (hopefully) entertaining chunks. But, for now,...
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A New Method of Design
In the fall of 2014, I was introduced to a new(ish) model of design, called social design. [source] Social design is different than traditional graphic design, where clients order a thing and a...
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Oh, What Wicked Problems We’ve Woven
As I delved into social design, I came across a concept I’d known about but didn’t know of a name for: Wicked Problems. In short, wicked problems are typically human created, do not have one root...
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It’s more than just posters …
A few days ago, I started to tell y’all about design for social change. Social design is really important to understand if you’re going to try to bring people together. Design for social change is a...
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Social Design Case Study: Es Tiempo
As Shea and Kolko alluded to in the quotes from yesterday’s post, designers acting as social entrepreneurs change the graphic design profession, and have successfully used design to bring people...
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Yo.
Hey there. It’s been a while since I’ve checked in — and with good reason. The biggest reason? I got hacked. Because I’m an idiot who used a 6-letter password. Fortunately for you there weren’t any...
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Tuesday Tutes & Loot: Peanut Butter Banana Waffles
A long, long time ago I ran a blog linkup called Tuesday Tutes and Loot. Unless I have a demand for it, I’m not going to do the linkup thing again. But I am going to bring back my Tuesday Tutes &...
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Social Design Case Study: HourSchool
In continuing our exploration of social design projects, I thought I’d tell y’all about HourSchool (which, sadly, doesn’t seem to be in existence anymore). HourSchool started as a project at the Austin...
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Social Design Case Study: PieLab
PieLab is a production of designer and social designer John Bielenberg’s Project M in Greensboro, Alabama. It all started by taking a risk and serving up slices of pie in hopes of getting some...
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Behavior Change 101
If you get bored easily, maybe come back tomorrow. This is the nuts and bolts part of my thesis study. If you’re a psych nerd, stick around. Now that y’all understand the basics of social design, let’s...
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FUN-employment
While being unemployed, I’ve been taking the time to invest in myself and do a lot of things I’ve said I would do “when I had the time”. I’ll let you in on a secret: there never is going to be time —...
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You’ve got to understand community. // #chimesthesis
I realized that I notoriously don’t finish my own projects (a.k.a. things with no real deadlines), so to break that crappy habit, I’m going to keep posting my thesis, edited for blog format. Once I’m...
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Super-Sized Problems // #chimesthesis
Prepare yourself: this one is going to be a relatively long post. But, it’s pretty worthwhile. If you’ve never heard of Wicked Problems, and consider yourself an activist, then stay tuned. If you’re...
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It’s EXPERIMENT time! // #chimesthesis
Thanks for sticking with me through all the researchy stuff. Here’s where my thesis work gets fun. It’s time to check out the experiments I put together, and hear about what I learned through them, or...
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Design Experiment: Shareotypes // #chimesthesis
As I mentioned previously, I aimed to try to get groups of different people together (and to help them get along). One of the first experiments I did was aimed at low-hanging fruit: on-campus students...
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Design Experiments: Taqueria Guerita // #chimesthesis
After Shareotypes failed to do what I was hoping for, I decided to take a more direct approach to bring people together through design. I had a couple of “a-ha” moments (one after watching an episode...
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Wedding Wednesday: How to Stick to a Tight Invite Budget
Hey there! You’re probably wondering how wedding planning is going since I’m getting married Friday. I’ve got last-minute things but nothing too big. Mostly I’m designing and printing pretty paper...
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Finding your perfect stylist.
Y’all know I’m fickle with my hair. I get bored easily and, let’s be honest, it’s just hair. It grows back (usually). I’d been dreading trying to find a new stylist up here in St. Paul. For years I’d...
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A Dedication // #chimesthesis
Tomorrow morning at this time I’ll be defending my thesis … and I’m getting nervous. I’m planning to roll out the thesis here in small, digestible, and (hopefully) entertaining chunks. But, for now,...
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