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Valerie Casey wrote a new blog post: Visualizing Change: An Interview with the Noun Project 10 months ago · View
The mission of The Noun Project is to collect, organize and add to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world’s visual language so they can be shared in a fun and meaningful way. The symbols are free, simple, and high quality—not to mention truly delightful. In this conversation with the Designers Accord , we learn from The [...] -
Valerie Casey wrote a new blog post: Introducing MCAD’s MA in Sustainable Design – Educating Global Change Agents 10 months, 2 weeks ago · View
Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) is pushing the design envelope with their new Master of Arts in Sustainable Design—an interdisciplinary, studio design-oriented degree that is also offered completely online. The Designers Accord talks to Program Coordinator (and biomimicry education leader) Cindy Gilbert about the inspiration for the program and how MCAD plans to shape the next [...] -
Valerie Casey wrote a new blog post: Biomimicry 3.8: What Would You Ask Nature 1 year, 2 months ago · View
Design leader Robert Suarez and Sustainability Strategist Kathy Zarsky have been exploring this question through their studies in biomimicry with Biomimcry 3.8 , the world-leading organization that harnesses nature’s strategies to inspire new kinds of creative problem-solving. In this conversation with the Designers Accord, we learn from Robert and Kathy not just what they ask nature but why [...] -
Valerie Casey wrote a new blog post: Satisfy Your Paper Fetish and Support Teen Mentoring at the Same Time 2 years, 8 months ago · View
Even if you don’t love letterpress (who doesn’t love letterpress?), you’ll want to get behind this teen mentoring initiative, School: By Design , which pairs designers with high school students in a 6-week program to “redesign their school.” The most innovative project created during the program receives a $10,000 award for implementation. To support the School: by [...] -
Valerie Casey wrote a new blog post: The Designers Accord Educational Toolkit: What Does it Really Take to Encourage Sustainable Practice? 2 years, 8 months ago · View
How can we start thinking about sustainability as an intrinsic part of good design, instead of an addendum? How can we embrace the potential impact of our craft to design new services, shape organizational behavior, and enable policy change, not just churn out artifacts? How can we assume accountability for what our designs influence, and not just the [...] -
Valerie Casey became a registered member 2 years, 11 months ago · View
