Worldstudio

Six students from New York City’s High School of Art and Design are being given an opportunity that many designers only dream of – their designs will be featured on Clear Channel’s “Spectacolor HD” digital billboard in Times Square. The billboards were created as part of Create! Don’t Hate., a Design Ignites Change mentoring initiative. Professional designers from the mentoring program of the New York chapter of AIGA worked with students from the High School of Art and Design to create billboard designs addressing the theme of tolerance.

The final student designs address a wide variety of issues such as gay rights, racism and body image. Over the course of two months, the mentors led students through the design process – from brainstorming and sketching to producing the final designs on the computer. Twenty-two students participated, with six of the designs ultimately chosen for display in Times Square on prime advertising space made available through a partnership with Clear Channel Spectacolor.

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Made possible through the Design Ignites Change Implementation Award, the first delicious products from PieLab’s Pecans! business are now for sale online. The goal of Pecans! is to teach local youth in rural Greensboro, Alabama to create a profitable business using a plentiful local resource. (more…)

BAND-AID® Brand, Clear Channel Outdoor and Sappi Fine Paper North America recently joined forces with Worldstudio and Adobe Youth Voices to support Design Ignites Change in a common and collaborative mission to engage high school and college students in creating solutions to pressing social issues in their own communities.

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Design Ignites Change, a collaboration between Adobe Youth Voices and Worldstudio, is excited to announce the inaugural 2009 Implementation Award winners: PieLab’s Pecans! and Kansas City Art Institute’s A Book by its Cover: Reading Stereotypes and Freewall: Making Space for Diversity. The biannual award program recognizes exceptional proposals for design intended to make the world a better place, and grants their creators the financial support to realize those visions.

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Design Ignites Change, a collaboration between Adobe Youth Voices and Worldstudio, engages high school and college students in multidisciplinary design and architecture projects that address pressing social issues.

There are several ways to engage with the program:

» Colleges and universities are invited to join Design Ignites Change to engage their students in social issues and gain visibility for their programs.

» Creative professionals and college students are invited to mentor underserved high school students through an exciting partnership with The Designers Accord.

» Corporations and nonprofits can also participate in Design Ignites Change through sponsorship.

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Worldstudio is delighted to announce that the 2010 Design Ignites Change mentoring initiative will be developed and implemented in partnership with The Designers Accord, a global coalition of designers, educators and business leaders working together to create positive environmental and social impact.

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cause/affect is a biennial graphic design competition which celebrates the work of designers and organizations who set out to positively impact our society. Design Ignites Change has been awarded first place in the Education category.

All of the winning work is currently on display at the AIGA SF Gallery through August 7th and on the cause/affect website.

Pick up the latest issue of Communication Arts on newsstands now or download this PDF to read Mark Randall’s design issues article about design as social educator. Learn how designers can go beyond the traditional approaches to social responsibility in their work and become entrepreneurs, developing and executing their own solutions to social problems.

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Read the article by Steven Heller here.

As part of their involvement in Design Ignites Change, students from the Junior Graphic Design class at Corcoran College of Art + Design have been performing a series of sidewalk reenactments in an effort to raise awareness of pedestrian fatalities in Washington, DC. Last week, these students made the local news! Click here to see the story that ran on the local NBC affiliate. (more…)