Create! Don't Hate.

Create! Don’t Hate. is a Design Ignites Change Youth Mentoring Initiative built around the theme of tolerance. The six week self-guided program has been created to empower youth in underserved communities with a real-world experience using design thinking to communicate their ideas, exhibit their potential and take action in their communities.

For this initiative, students and their design mentors will create powerful public billboards that address the theme of tolerance in a variety of compelling and thought-provoking ways. The program is designed to give participating students the tools and guidance they need to create an impactful message which will have broad visibility within their community.

Along with empowering youth, the goals of the program are to publicly exhibit as many tolerance billboards as possible and to promote the participants and their work through the Design Ignites Change website and public relations campaign to demonstrate the power of design to ignite change.


We’d like you to be a mentor
Create! Don’t Hate. is coming to our community and we are looking for mentors.


• We’d like you to join us by collaborating with a young person to design a billboard.
• We will find you a student to work with.
• There will be a kick-off meeting where you will meet the other participants and
your student, it is important that you attend this meeting.
• You will meet with your student for six two hour sessions
over the course of eight weeks.
• You will set the meeting times based on both of your schedules
• While we can’t promise that everyone’s billboard will be put on display our goal
is to mount as many as possible.
• All participants will be featured on the Design Ignites Change website.

You do not have to have any experience in mentoring, a step-by-step set of guidelines and curriculum are available to make the project easy to execute. The material will give you the tools you need to successfully complete the project while providing a rewarding experience for the student and yourself.

Public reception February 25th, 2010.

To learn more about how you can participate in Create! Don’t Hate., email Kevin Perry at president@slc.aiga.org