Bringing Graphic Design Students out of the Classroom and into the Community

So much of graphic design education is focused around the computer that it is great when opportunities arise where we can escape the digital frontier and find ways to work with design in the environment.
Showing Signs of Change: Community Development Project emerges in Atlanta Neighborhoods

Community Vacancy is a project that helps to raise awareness of all the empty and neglected areas in our communities and ask patrons and visitors to question and challenge these spaces through a series of phrases and iconic imagery.
Writing contracts and Improving Professional Practices for Creatives

professional practices and good business strategies require that you have at least some knowledge of writing project statements, design contracts and invoices, especially if you work for yourself.
Classes begin this week at GSU

Typography begins with a bang this spring semester at Georgia State. We will be working on some fun projects including letter anatomy, expressive type, magazine layouts and brochures.
“That was my Idea” debuts at Aqua Art Miami

“That was my idea” debuted yesterday, December 1 at Aqua Art Miami and will stay on display through Sunday, December 4.
Design Strategies for Community Driven Art Project

This community-driven art project is focused on the reinvention of abandoned buildings by means of design to improve sustainability of communities and trigger awareness.
Urbanized, review

The documentary not only discussed urban design from a city planner’s perspective but really dived into the issues regarding pedestrians and cities, design and safety, and city decay and abandonment.
Building Communities with Art: Implementing Sustainable Design Practices

Is there a way to rethink the use of vacant spaces between ownership and help improve the sustainability of communities?