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Seeking large-scale social change as goal

The following is the proposal submitted by the NC State University Master of Graphic Design Students for the 2009 Aspen Design Challenge. Due to the nature of the project, it is here presented in full. It was carried out by Alberto Rigau, Cady Bean-Smith, Rebecca Tegtmeyer, Sidney Fritts, Lauren ...

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Design providing a space for communication

In an effort to further investigate the role of interaction in the establishment of an online community, this group project explored some of the ways an online environment can help make an aspect of urban life more legible to a specific group of interested users....

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The role of design in establishing community

How can design thinking be used to bring together an online community through the articulation of a specific online experience? As a first step in understanding the implications of this inquiry, concept maps were developed to illustrate, showcase and connect information related to a chosen demographic; in this case, ...

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Typography as a framework for collaboration

An understanding of the process of collaboration was furthered through an investigation in lightwriting and its typographical possibilities. Carried out as the opening project in a graduate symposium, this study provided a collaborative framework on which a group of participants created messages by visually articulating typographic form. They were asked to ...

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When digital identities become the real identity

Facebook, Twitter, mySpace, Second Life, AIM, Skype… How many digital identities will one person have? How will these related to one another? Will platforms like Second Life become a place of business, culture exchange, and daily social interaction? This project certainly thinks so, questioning the fate of a person’s ...

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The designer as middle-man

ELEMENTAL is a Chilean Do Tank that focuses on the design and implementation of urban projects. It thinks, designs and builds better housing and infrastructure to promote social development. At the city of Iquique in Chile, the group conceptualized the design of a neighborhood as an organic system: one ...

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