Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie (1867-1934)

In This Issue:

AIGA XCD: Events
AIGA XCD Design Expedition to China
Sharing Dreams: Havana Through Your Lens

At the CrossCultural Junction
Designing for Humans
Basel School of Design Summer Workshop
Wired to Care

Interesting Links and Resources
Living Principles
Freedom of Freelance
Design and Creative News
Icograda
Identity and Design with Sebastian Guerrini
Diversity-– a UNESCO logo Competition
Back Space
Cities x Design

AIGA XCD Design Expedition to China

Wearied but inspired, expeditioneers recently returned home after a successful and eventful trip to Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. For a virtual tour of China, your are invited to browse through Mark Gilsdorf's photo album.



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Sharing Dreams: Havana Through Your Lens

Sharing Dreams/Compartiendo Sueños, an XCD AIGA Center For Cross-Cultural Design Program, is an on-going collaboration between the U.S. and Cuba and guided by the desire to build friendships and professional relationships that are stronger than the political and commercial barriers separating these two nations.

Our latest collaboration is “Havana Through Your Lens” an exhibit of photographs and videos submitted by past design participants; the show opened on November 3, 2009 in Havana. Visit our redesigned Sharing Dreams website for more information.



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Designing for Humans

In his second installment of “Designing for Humans”, Daniel Formosa says we only have it half right. “If females are a majority, why are they treated as a niche market in so many product categories?” Read more about Designing for Humans: The Average American on our blog.

Related links:

Learn how one woman’s initiative to persuade companies to consider the female perspective when designing new products led her to create the Institute for Women in Technology.

Discover for the first time - or revisit - the work of the groundbreakers, pathfinders and trailblazers – three generations of women who have helped define the last fifty years of graphic design, in the book “Women of Design” published by How Books.



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Basel School of Design Summer Workshop
Are we ever too old to learn? How do experienced designers and educators keep fresh and inspired? What’s more important – the process or the content? Join Maryam Hosseinnia as she explores these questions during a three-week workshop at the Basel School of Design in Switzerland.

Related link:

For a great overview of Swiss design and how it still resonates today in web design, visit Smashing Magazine.



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Wired to Care

Is there room for compassion in business? Find out what author Dev Patnaik considers to be one of the most important skills for success – whether as an individual or corporation. Do you agree? Let us know by responding on our blog.

Our resident book reviewer, Deborah Plunkett, is on the look out for interesting books on design and culture. We’d like to hear about the books you’re reading.



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Living Principles

Sustainability and Culture in Design: Use it in everything you do.
Share it.
Enrich it.
Teach it.
Live it.
www.livingprinciples.net



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Freedom of Freelance

Ahhh....the freedom of freelance. Learn more at http://freelanceswitch.com.



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Design and Creative News

Get your daily dose of design and creative news by logging on to http://daily.creattica.com/khtt.net.



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Icograda

Keep up-to-date about Icograda, member associations, and the global design community. http://www.icograda.org/news/year/2009_news.



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Identity and Design with Sebastian Guerrini

Rethink Image, Identity and Design with Sebastian Guerrini http://www.sebastianguerrini.com/the-brand-of-an-ngo.



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Diversity-– a UNESCO logo Competition

What does diversity look like? Check out “Diversity-– a UNESCO logo competition” at http://www.design21sdn.com/competitions/18.



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Back Space

Can design change the world? This web log is a collection of notes on the built environment, graphic design, product design, architecture, the decisions we make, and the impact they have. http://www.backspace.com/notes.



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Cities x Design

How does investing in design change perceptions, boost economies and create unique places? Travel online to 30 cities across the country and see how. http://trip.citiesxdesign.org.



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