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All around us, we see organizations and communities that need to change. The job for design is everywhere. I would like the people who come through our design education program to become embedded in thousands of places, helping our species evolve from selfish users of resources to expanders and creators of resources. And for that, while there is no “studio” involved, we hope you join us.

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.

At the height of the recession in 2009, the Chicago neighborhoods of Wicker Park and Bucktown wanted to attract new visitors. Firebelly created this high-impact print and digital campaign—including ads on public transit—that featured products from 100 local businesses that couldn’t be found anywhere else in the city.

This toolkit—a downloadable booklet of activities that enables groups of people throughout the world to collaborate on making changes in their communities—encourages participants to develop problem-solving skills while drawing on their unique strengths and perspectives.

Christopher Liechty guided webcast attendees through the process of discovering the fundamental differences between cultures. This webcast helped attendees to see their own cultural biases and learn to communicate more clearly in cross-cultural design projects.
 

Drawing from more than two decades of experience working on issues related to communication and culture, brand diplomat Christopher Liechty proposes a “third culture approach” for in-house creatives challenged to bridge the culture gap between themselves and their business colleagues—who sometimes seem as if the come from another planet.

A community-sourced exhibition at the El Paso Museum of History empowers community members to tell the story of their neighborhoods, in their own words and with their own images and objects.