M Stands for Mobilize: An Interview with John Bielenberg

In late 2007, the Designers Accord was founded with the goal of changing the way the creative community does business. Designers, educators and business leaders adopted a “Kyoto Treaty” of design (later renamed the Designers Accord) that specified a particular ethos and behavior around sustainable design.

This program encourages high school and college students to use design thinking and innovation to address complex social problems.

What has changed in the 20 years since the first AIGA Conference? For Milton Glaser, it is a return to modern principles, and the ability for designers to balance art and craft, conscience and belief for the common good.

Should students be taught to stop making stuff? As design educators, Heller and Chochinov debate this challenging issue.

The former design director for NYTimes.com wants to ignite the circuits in your brain centering around visual creativity, and he’s doing it with a social art-making app for tablets called Mixel.

The author of Afrikan Alphabets, a comprehensive review of African writing systems, Saki Mafundikwa is a maverick visionary who left a successful design career in New York to return to his native Zimbabwe and open the country's first school of graphic design and new media.