Worldstudio

March 1, 2013
Worldstudio launches Impact! Sessions a webinar series on social design in collaboration with the School of Visual Arts. The six sessions in the series, hosted by Mark Randall, will be broadcast on alternating Fridays in March and April.

January 29, 2013
Opening night of Seán Curran Company’s 15th Anniversary season at the Joyce Theater in New York. Mark Randall designed projected titles for “Fireweather or the Mission of Virgil” a dance piece by choreographer Seán Curran with music by contemporary composer Charles Wuorinen. The choreography and music are both inspired by Dante’s “Inferno.”

November 9, 2012
World premiere of “Travel Songs” at the Debartolo Performing Arts Center at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. Mark Randall designed projections for “Travel Songs” an evening length work created by choreographer Seán Curran and the Seán Curran Company in collaboration with the Grammy Award winning acapella group The King’s Singers.

October 17, 2012
Mark Randall is included on the “Improves Quality of Urban Life” panel for Design: Just What the Heck Is It? event at the Center for Architecture in New York City in collaboration with the AIANY and presented in association with Archtober, Architecture and Design Month, New York City.

September 20, 2012
Mark Randall is the first speaker in the Fall 2012 Guest Lecture Series at the School of Visual Art’s MFA Design program.

Fall 2012
Mark Randall will be teaching at Fordham University for the fall semester. His class “Designing Social Change” will introduce students to social entrepreneurship and the execution of self-generated social change projects.

July 9 – August 17, 2012
Impact! Design for Social Change summer session at the School of Visual Arts. Mark is the Chair of the program.

April 19-21, 2012
Mark will give a presentation and lead a workshop at Design Ethos hosted by Savannah College of Art and Design.

March 21-22, 2012
Mark will lead a social design workshop and give a lecture to students at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.

March 1, 2012
Mark will be moderating his panel discussion Commitment Required: The Social Design Job Market. The program is in conjunction with Impact! Design for Social Change, the School of Visual Arts, six-week summer intensive, for which Mark serves as Chair.

February 16 – March 2, 2012
Mark will give a presentation and lead a workshop at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania on February 23. There will also be a two-week exhibition on Design Ignites Change in conjunction with Mark’s visit.

January 26, 2012
Judging for the 2011 Design Ignites Change Implementation Awards took place in New York City. The student initiatives with the most powerful and provocative solutions were given financial awards to help fund the implementation of their projects.

November 10, 2011
Mark will be moderating a panel discussion Designing Social Change with Asi Burak – Games for Change, Katrin Verclas – MobileActive, Michelle Mullineaux – ESI Design and Whitney Quesenbery – WQ Usability.

October 27, 2011
Mark will be the guest speaker at an AIGA Washington DC chapter fundraiser to support the AIGA Worldstudio scholarship program.

October 18, 2011
Mark Randall participated in the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum’s NYC Teen Design Fair. Other participants include; Fashion designer Rogan Gregory of Rogan and Loomstate, Karin Fong of Imaginary Forces, noted typographer Matthew Carter and Tim Gunn from Project Runway.

October 14-24, 2011
Andréa Pellegrino visited South Africa for the research phase of collaboration between Worldstudio, University of Notre Dame and Kgosi Neighbourhood Foundation aiming to address xenophobia.

September 29, 2011
Mark presented at the Partnership for Academic Leadership on Sustainability at Pratt in New York City.

August 27-28, 2011
Andréa Pellegrino attended the ICOGRADA Executive Board meeting in Montreal.

August 14-16, 2011
Mark Randall attended the Winterhouse Symposium, an invitation-only gathering of thirty educators and interested parties to explore the teaching and practice of social design in undergraduate and graduate design education.

July 27, 2011
Judging for the 2011 Design Ignites Change Implementation Awards took place in New York City. The student initiatives with the most powerful and provocative solutions were given financial awards to help fund the implementation of their projects.

July 14, 2011
Mark juried the Graphics/Branding/Identity category of the Core 77 Design Awards. Watch the broadcast and see Mark and his fellow jurors Steven Heller, Bonnie Siegler and Paula Scher speak about the award winners.

July 11 – August 19, 2011
Mark Randall is chair of Impact! Design for Social Change, a six-week summer intensive at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. In addition, Mark and Andréa Pellegrino each taught courses along with other noted professionals.

June 1, 2011
Student winners of The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards participated in a workshop led by Andréa Pellegrino that explored the use of design thinking in finding solutions to social challenges.

April 13, 2011
For a program at the Museum of Arts and Design called DANCE: UNDER THE INFLUENCE Mark Randall collaborated with choreographer Seán Curran as visual designer.

March 11 & 12, 2011
Mark Randall gave a lecture and lead a workshop at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo.

March 10, 2011
Mark Randall spoke about design for social change at Towson University in Baltimore.

January 14, 2011
Worldstudio Funding Social Change workshop at the University of Southern California.

November 18, 2010
Mark Randall spoke about socially responsible design at an AIGA Upstate New York event.

October 22, 2010
Worldstudio Funding Social Change workshop partially sponsored by Sappi’s Ideas that Matter program at the College of Visual Arts in St.Paul.

October 1, 2010
Worldstudio Funding Social Change workshop at the University of Notre Dame.

September 30, 2010
Mark Randall and Andréa Pellegrino spoke about the role of design and social change at the University of Notre Dame.

September 11, 2010
Worldstudio attended the Cynthia Rowley Fashion Week Show and following reception at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, to celebrate the launch of the limited edition Cynthia Rowley Band-Aids that benefit Design Ignites Change.

July 12 – August 20, 2010
Mark Randall is chair of Impact! Design for Social Change, a six-week summer intensive at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. In addition, Mark and Andréa Pellegrino taught courses along with other noted professionals.

June 22, 2010
Worldstudio Funding Social Change workshop sponsored by Sappi’s Ideas that Matter program at MassArt in Boston.

May 26, 2010
Worldstudio Funding Social Change workshop sponsored by Sappi’s Ideas that Matter program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

May 20, 2010
Worldstudio Funding Social Change workshop sponsored by Sappi’s Ideas that Matter program at IIT Institute of Design in Chicago.

April 30, 2010
Worldstudio Funding Social Change workshop sponsored by Sappi’s Ideas that Matter program at Portolio Center in Atlanta.

March 16, 2010
Mark Randall spoke at the New Mexico Advertising Federation.

February 5, 2010
Mark Randall judged and spoke at Graphex, Canada’s biennial national design awards, presented by the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada in Vancouver, BC.

January 30, 2010
Judging for The Urban Forest Project DC was held to choose the 100 banners that will be displayed in Washington DC starting in April.

January 26, 2010
Judging for the 2009 Design Ignites Change Implementation Awards took place at Adobe San Francisco. The student initiatives with the most powerful and provocative solutions were given financial awards to help fund the implementation of their project.

January 23, 2010
Andréa Pellegrino attended The Urban Forest Project San Francisco preview event party at the Bayview Opera House to celebrate the artwork created by mentoring teams that paired professional designers from AIGA San Francisco with local Bay Area high school students, as well as artwork from Academy of Art University students and alumni.

November 19, 2009
Andréa Pellegrino spoke about making social design economically sustainable by engaging corporate sponsors as part of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada’s Practivism2 panel discussion in Vancouver, BC.

November 18, 2009
Mark Randall presented at The Art Director’s Club Designism 4.0.

October 23 and 24, 2009
Worldstudio presented at The Designers Accord Global Summit on Design Education and Sustainability.

October 19, 2009
Worldstudio is a sponsor for Alissa Walker’s Week of Walks Sustainable Skyscrapers: Time Square Goes Green tour.

October 9, 2009
Mark Randall participated in a panel discussion lead by Denise Korn with Greg Selkoe, KarmaLoop and Petrula Vrontikis, Art Center titled “Looking Back/Looking Forward: Mentoring and the Economic Future of Design” at the Make/Think AIGA Design Conference in Memphis.

September 14, 2009
Mark Randall gave a presentation at Pecha Kucha #7 in New York City.

June 24 – 27, 2009
Mark Randall gave the closing keynote presentation at the 2009 HOW Design Conference in Austin.

March 26 – 28, 2009
Andréa Pellegrino and Mark Randall presented at the 2009 AIGA Y Conference in San Diego.

March 18, 2009
Mark Randall gave a public lecture at Fabrica in Treviso, Italy. Click here to read more.

December 17, 2008
Mark Randall was a juror for the Cause Marketing Forum 2009 Run Walk Ride Pacesetter Awards in Manhattan.

December 9, 2008
Mark Randall participated in a panel discussion “Orienting the Public on NYC Streets” sponsored by the NYC Department of Transportation at the AIA Center for Architecture in New York.

September 18, 2008
Mark Randall was co-chair – along with Mick Hodgson – of the 2008 AIGA Design Legends Gala in New York CIty.