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Archive: October 2010
Winterhouse First Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Participant Case Studies
Participants of the Winterhouse Symposium on Design Education and Social Change, October 17-19, 2010, each contributed case studies of a class, project or program that bridges design and social innovation.READ MORE | COMMENTS
Winterhouse First Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Participants
This outlines the participants of the Winterhouse Symposium on Design Education and Social Change, which was held October 17-19 2011, in Falls Village CT.READ MORE | COMMENTS
An Introduction to Graphic Design
Broadly defined, graphic designers (sometimes referred to as “communication designers”) are the visual ambassadors of ideas: their role is to translate, communicate — and occasionally even agitate — by rendering thinking as form, process and experience. Here is an introduction or short primer to this specialized zone of design — a fifteen-minute Graphic Design 101.READ MORE | COMMENTS (61)
AIGA Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing: 2010 Recipients
Two writers have been selected to receive the fifth annual AIGA Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing & Criticism — including a $10,000 prize and a $1,000 student award. Winning topics include Southern California-inspired architecture in China, dormitory design, 9/11 and Lady Gaga.READ MORE | COMMENTS (1)
William Drenttel is a designer and publisher, and editorial director of Design Observer. He is a partner at Winterhouse, a design consultancy focused on social change, online media and educational institutions, and a senior faculty fellow at the Yale School of Management.Recent Video
National Design Award Trophy
In October 2011, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum unveiled a new trophy for the National Design Awards. Originally designed as an asterisk in silicon carbide by Winterhouse in 2000, the new glass trophy is by Corning GlassLab.Design Observer Archive
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