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It’s rare for American audiences to have access to the wealth of graphic design that is currently being created in Iran. Recently, a team of designers, writers and scholars have convened to curate a collection of contemporary Iranian design and exhibit it in the United States.

As North Carolina prepared to vote on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in 2012, New Kind partnered with the Coalition to Protect All North Carolina Families to fight back to develop and roll out a campaign against the Amendment that featured open source principles and community-focused design.

When the City of Columbus’s GreenSpot program was extended to target children ages four to seven and elementary school teachers by supplementing existing science curricula, Ologie made enhancements to the interactive website and created printed materials to help students create a healthier environment and community.

Using a mix of traditional and nontraditional approaches including ad placement at bodegas, murals, a food truck and radio spots, this campaign for the Food Bank of New York aimed to affect the eating habits of low-income teens by encouraging them to change their eating behaviors.

This high school design studio teaches students to use the creative process as a problem-solving method and develop smart communication solutions that better their communities. The students work on projects in teams, with support and guidance from a professional design mentor.

This mentoring program in Jacksonville, Florida pairs high school students who have expressed an interest in graphic design with professionals from the local design community. Over the course of three to four months, the mentoring group meets on weekends to complete individual projects that use social design to give back to the community.
 

Design can be a foreign concept to young students in rural Illinois. The goal of these workshops was to introduce design concepts and discuss employment opportunities to area middle school students. Following a presentation about design principles, the students were asked to put these principles to use, thinking about visual metaphors and creating engaging copy.