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Remember us.. Don't forget to support your local shelter - they need funding more now then ever in the COVID era.
https://jazzstew.wordpress.com/2020/04/22/research-and-reveal/

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For this project, we were to evaluate several issues that related to our locality. For me, I am choosing the city of San Francisco as my locale. It’s a big city, but a close knit one and one not without issues. The three issues that I found to be most apparent to me are: homelessness, economic inequality, and loneliness. I believe all are intertwined and not mutually exclusive.

Given the timeliness of the current social impact of COVID19 on the city of San Francisco, I chose to focus my project on loneliness. It also provides an opportunity for me to reflect on my own experiences stemming from the pandemic and feel like I am making a contribution to society as a result.

You create see my full project brief on my blog.

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Briefing document for cycle-lane-death-traps…
We're asking to solve a very common problem if you commute by bicycle. Either as a country-wide sweep if you can, or just by focussing on one particular favourite.

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I started with identifying 3 initial ideas in my community. My first thought is the animal shelters here. In doing a quick search, they have been closed since mid march, but animal foster homes are still operating which is a relief. As far as I know, there aren't any adoptions taking place, and I'm sure there is an impact I'm not seeing in my initial search.
My second idea is my own work community. Since moving to online teaching, I'm finding a lot of the older generations are resistant to the change. They HAVE to adapt, but I feel their arguments seem to be about fighting for the analog art - So there it is, the conflict between the analog and tech worlds in design.
My 3rd idea and thought is this - is it just me or are the assholes coming out of the woodwork? Ever since CoVID lockdown started, I'm finding people are being down right mean to others. The amount of plastic gloves in the grocery store parking lot is gross - what happened to environmental awareness? One of my Mummy facebook group had a story about a single mother going to the grocery store with her child, because she had no other choice and was berated by the clerk. Hello humanity? What happened to love, peace and hair grease?

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Hi all, please find here my Visual Summery and the challenge I have set as the design brief.
Blog Post: https://ashleighsmithdesign.wordpress.com/2020/04/02/week-10-visual-brief/

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Thought id give this a go, regretted it as soon as I started haha, recording your own voice is so awkward.
Let me know your thoughts :)

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Hey everyone, here is my response to the workshop challenge.
This is just the start of the campaign and and will develop/evolve as it builds.

The idea behind my final is just to start getting people thinking and discussing the whole idea more. I had a good response when I posed the first question.

Full blog about it here.

I am hopeful this will actually happen too. This IS a project I am going to keep going with because it would be great to get this connecting line built.

Thanks!
Peace out! ✌

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Here's my blog all about the idea I have chosen to go with.
Please have a read and let me know your thoughts.

Thanks!
Stay safe!

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MD2-Wk:10 Society & purpose - Jamie Snarski

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This week's task is to identify a theme or issue that relates to my locality. Then design and produce a visual summary to contextualise your issue and project brief.

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Workshop Challenge- Elevate play areas in the local park to combat increased obesity in children between the ages of 4 and 11.

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Workshop Challenge- Elevate play areas in the local park to combat increased obesity in children between the ages of 4 and 11.

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Link to blog: http://rebeccaclulow.co.uk/2020/04/02/research-and-reveal/

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I decided to combine my initial pen-pal idea with an idea suggested by one of the local residents in my online survey. He said it would be useful if there was a scheme that would allow his children to be able to share their artwork with other kids in the area. I thought that this would be something that would appeal to people of all ages, so my proposal is for 'Creative Canterbury', an art-pal scheme that would allow people to share artwork and little messages with others via a postcard-generating app. Obviously there would need to be one section for children and one for adults to ensure it is kept appropriate.

Blog: https://lucysmagraphicdesignblog.wordpress.com/2020/04/12/week-10-workshop-challenge-research-and-reveal/

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Finally getting there with this week's content.

Enjoy the rest of the easter break everyone!

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Looking through the reading materials this week... 

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Looking through the reading materials this week... 

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the Graphic Agitation material is really interesting. I'm looking at climate protest art as examples for this material and I found something cool on It's Nice That. :)

https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/glug-protest-by-design-graphic-design-190819

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Workshop Challenge: Synopsis and Outcome

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Workshop Challenge: Synopsis and Outcome

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Just finished putting together the material needed for this week's task. I went with the fitness idea for and how a community can be created were people with a common interest can share experiences and also find information that will help them in their journey. I have designed my synopsis in a poster.  Link to blog here.
Have a good night.

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Now I just want to go and cuddle a load of cats and dogs…

Hope everyone is having a good Easter break so far x

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So I have put together my ideas in a blog post were I explained a bit further on the three idea I have. Hope you'll enjoy reading my initial fuzzy thoughts here. Feedback appreciated. Thanks all. <3

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Idea no. 3: Encourage reading, both in English and in Maltese

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Idea no. 3: Encourage reading, both in English and in Maltese

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As children are more keen on gadgets these days, books seem to be taking the sidelines. Even more so when it comes to reading in Maltese, because most of the reading material is in English.

In addition to this, spelling in both languages has seen a toll in recent years. It is quite sad to see the errors that are made both in written and spoken Maltese.

The idea is to promote reading more and/or shed light on importance of good spelling and grammar.

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In Malta, obesity in children is a major issue, and it is on the increase. With the sped up lifestyle, children were often presented with a microwavable dinner or some greasy takeaway. And exercise was not given a priority.
As for adults, statistics are equally appalling. Full-throttle lifestyle meant very little time to cook proper meals, let alone exercise.

My idea in relation to this is to promote the fitness lifestyle as a 'mindset for success' rather than simple meal plans and exercise routines.

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We are all aware about the current COVID situation... in Malta the authorities are setting up all sorts of services, from deliveries of food and medication to telephones lines were you can call and just talk. Also one of the schools in my town is being converted to a "factory" to make masks. Was thinking of looking at these services being offered that go beyond the walls of the hospitals.

The idea is to show how social distancing is actually bringing people closer together.

I don't know if I explained myself well though :/

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Following a survey I sent round my colleagues and some further research, I am proposing the need for a design toolkit for library staff.
They produce a lot of graphic design however due to cost it is all done in-house, mostly by staff who are untrained and working under time constraints. Hopefully my blog post will explain more.

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What is the best thing about being inside: "Spending time with my family, we get to do games. We do Farm Set up and play board games, scrabble, draughts, snakes and ladders, trampoline, football."
The best day you've had since you've been indoors: "When it was Tim's birthday and we got to watch a movie and walked up the field behind the house and we did a distance party with our neighbours for Tim. It was really fun."

Research is very fun today!!

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Some people have said that they think we should be linked to the other trails around us.

Our main walking/biking trail is called Stockley Trail. It seems to connect to smaller routes that go one way away from our town but not the other way where there are trails that then link up to go on for miles and miles and miles (you get the picture).

Most of the trails around here are old railway lines. There is an old line there, but no-one has done anything with it?

This would be a campaign to raise funds to build the connecting line.

Visually it could be done on multiple levels. Posters (locally), online social media groups, crowdfunding page, dedicated website for updates, door to door petitions, national lottery funding etc

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I've decided to propose a platform designed to connect local people with community projects that they might not otherwise know about.

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Wk:10 Idea 3 - Leisure facilities or lack of

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Wk:10 Idea 3 - Leisure facilities or lack of

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This one is a BIG one with locals. Although kids don’t have much, adults don’t either. The council built a brand new facility, but chose to place it in a village called Clowne, about 3-4 miles from Bolsover. This is ok for those with transport, but not for others.

There are a few small boxing/self defence classes etc like most towns but no one main building for swimming and gym etc.

It would be an epic project to try and get the council to build something for Bolsover, many have tried for years.

But on the flip side there would be massive advantages to solve some issues - general fitness, obesity, mental health and could be a community space.

Someone did mention they had been somewhere and the local community co-owned the facility. Local businesses sponsored a brick which helped with running costs etc. There was even a volunteer ran cafe.

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Atlantis Leisure :: Oban Community Playpark

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Help raise funds for Oban Community Playpark

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Another point raised by quite a few people is the lack of leisure facilities for kids.

There a a few small parks but nothing great. A few people mentioned about getting a splash area built in one of the big open parks.

Not sure how this one could be made into a piece of service design tho?

Thought are most welcome.

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One of the issues raised to me was the amount of litter around our area.

Taking that point onboard and the daily exercise, could they be combined?

If you’re out walking, take a bag to collect anything you might see. Always wear gloves obviously.

To visualise it it could be an online campaign shared socially to all the local Facebook groups.

Get the family involved. Get kids to design posters then get their parents to share the pictures on their Facebook walls, then they get shared, and then maybe other towns pick up on the idea and they start doing it.

Potentially reaching a national audience and ultimately doing good in many ways.

- Litter picking

- Exercise (locally)

- Fresh air

- Cleaner looking town

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As the pandemic grows, people are looking for more diy ppe so they can venture out and feel that little bit safer, I found this idea. Maybe overkill, but some people need that reassurance.

Using the research material I have found the attached poster. It could be a great and easy way for anyone to make their own protection, plus a fun project for the whole family to get involved in.? Maybe...

Peace out! ✌️

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My write-up so far for this week – just need to properly outline my 200 words, and think about the visual summary.

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workshop challenge

This week we want you to identify a theme or issue that relates to your locality and present your findings on the Ideas Wall, prior to the design phase.

Research and discover issues that relate to your locality and post them on the Ideas Wall. Direct engagement and potential collaboration is encouraged to engage with relevant local communities to identify issues.

Distill your research to identify one issue you would like to resolve and reveal through a visual outcome.

Write a short 200-word project brief that reports on the issue to be solved.

Design and produce a visual summary to contextualise your issue and project brief. Your summary can be a digital, print or moving image, but it must be succinct, to enable third party viewers to quickly understand the requirements, needs and challenges.

research

I started off this week by exploring forums and social media pages set up for Redditch residents, to see if there were any issues that jumped out at me. The main thing that everybody seems to complain about on these pages is bad parking... not sure this is something I can get excited enough about to turn into a project. Also, does every area have this many cats go missing on a daily basis?? In between the parking complaints and missing cat posts, everything seems to be covid-19 related at the moment.

Most of the covid-19 issues being raised were things like not being able to buy what you need from the shops, complaining about people still going out despite the lockdown, etc. Some were more heart-warming, such as the rainbows people are putting up in their windows at the moment.

Eventually I decided that there was no point trying to avoid covid-19 related issues - we have been tasked with solving a local problem, and currently, the pandemic is causing issues all across the globe, with every country, region, and city facing its own specific problems.

An issue that in my local area (and possibly further afield) that seems to be getting overlooked, is the impact of the lockdown on animal shelters. They are no longer able to welcome visitors to come round and meet the animals, and more pressingly, they are unable to conduct home visits and assessments for both foster and permanent homes for their animals. Funding is also extremely difficult when so many events are having to be cancelled.

I would like to explore what could be done locally to tackle this issue - are there other ways the shelters can fundraise and ensure that their animals get visibility so that when the situation is resolved, there will be families waiting to adopt the animals.

The feedback I received on the Ideas Wall following this initial idea was really helpful, and I'm very interested in the suggestions around how animals can actually help us during this time, rather than just looking at this as how we can help the animals. While everybody is so isolated, particularly the elderly, there surely has to be a solution here that not only helps animals finding a new home, but also gives the elderly some company during what must be an incredibly lonely and scary time.

My only concern with this, and something I would need to work hard to avoid, is the age-old "A dog is for life not just for Christmas" - and equally, a pet is for life, not just during the lockdown. Perhaps this is even a way to help re-home the older animals who are often overlooked - the lockdown has really drawn attention to how isolation will impact the elderly, perhaps this is the time when people will also feel more compassionately towards older animals who also need company.
Local Animal Shelters
We have a number of local animal shelters, one of which I volunteered at last summer, which handily gives me a little more insight, and also some original photography which might come in use given that I am unable to visit during the lockdown.

The shelters are turning to social media to ask for donations during this time, as they are now unable to run fundraising events in the way they used to.

There are two sides to this problem - one is continuing to raise vital funds to keep the shelters going, and this of course applies to all charities, not just animal shetlers. During the lockdown, how do charities continue to fundraise when so much of this activity would usually rely on public events.

The other side to this problem, and the one that I would like to focus on for this project, is the re-homing or fostering of the animals. Shelters rely on foster carers for a number of reasons - to free up space when they are full, but also to help socialise the animals before they are re-homed and get them used to a certain environment, for example a home with other pets or children.

Where I'm really interested, is the fostering - this would surely solve a lot of problems all at once - if people who are feeling isolated during this time could foster an animal, this would help both the people and the animals, whilst avoiding the issue of people adopting pets that they will no longer want once the lockdown is over. If they do still want the pet, then great - adoption can still be an option later down the line.

The challenge

I see two elements to this challenge -

How can visibility of shelter animals in need of a foster home be made more prominent during a time when the spotlight is very much fixed elsewhere?

How can home assessments be carried out safely during the lockdown?

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workshop challenge This week we want you to identify a theme or issue that relates to your locality and present your findings on the Ideas Wall, prior to the design phase. Research and discover issues that relate to your locality and post them on the Ideas Wall.

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Gary Hustwit is streaming his movies for free. The Legend.
https://www.ohyouprettythings.com/free

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So to go alongside my idea of getting kids out more and conquering obesity, I also found out that where I live is the furthest point from the sea in the UK. Usually in the summer the city's residence choose to swim in the river Trent and risk 'Trent belly'. It's also a practice that is now out of bounds.

In short, I have decided to maximise the lack of open space by proposing the abandoned sites along the river are transformed into Lido's (the last in the city was closed down in 1980). SO - I've designed an app for kids (and adults) to find their nearest fresh water, in the hope that exercise becomes an exciting norm.

I'd love all thoughts on this. Blog post tomorrow to explain more.

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Tomorrow I have some MVP interviews lined up, these are my Q's:

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https://www.dezeen.com/2020/02/16/pentagram-yoto-childrens-audio-player-technology/

My sister and brother in law really struggle with minimising or delaying their young kids attachment to screens, but one of their kids LOVES to dance and so they wanted a screen free music personal machine for her. The awesome people at Pentagram have apparently solved the problem.

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Plan: Ok, so I rrrrreally struggled to figure this one out. I am not a native to where I am, I have a vague sense of some issues where I work but nothing with a hook, nothing I can imagine to be pressing right now, and furthermore I have no connection to the local communities whatsoever. So I decided to consider the other communities I am part of now, in isolation, my family, my niece and nephew particularly, and my partners niece and nephew. And the other extended children in the family, the over riding experience for them and their parents is the lack of connection to their friends. This may be a little off the brief, but I feel it will provide me scoop to design something tangible and rich as my Brief 3 output.

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WOODFORD COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) - A college senior from Versailles put her stir-craziness to good use with a project that will help the deaf and hard of hearing community.

"I just saw that people were making masks on Facebook for everyone to have instead of the throwaway masks, and I was like, what about the deaf and hard of hearing population?" explained 21-year-old Ashley Lawrence.

Lawrence is a senior studying education for the deaf and hard of hearing at Eastern Kentucky University. Due to the virus, she is living back at home and doing her student teaching from home.

"I felt like there was a huge population that was being looked over," Lawrence said. "We're all panicking right now and so a lot of people are just not being thought of. So, I felt like it was very important that, even at a time like this, people need to have that communication."

After a conversation with her mom, they put their craft skills to work.

"We started out making them with bed sheets that we had, and luckily bed sheets are big," Lawrence said. "So we have two or three sets so we're making them out of that. Then, a couple months ago we needed plastic fabric for something. And so we have a whole roll of that and the window is only this big so having a whole roll is very helpful so luckily we haven't needed any supplies yet."

With her mission centered around the deaf and hard of hearing community, she is going the extra mile.

"We're trying different things to for people with cochlear implants and hearing aids if they can't wrap around the ears," Lawrence said. "We're making some that have around the head and around the neck."

She explained the necessity for the plastic window on the masks is why she started this project in the first place.

"For anyone who uses speech reading, lip reading, anybody like that," Lawrence said about the purpose of the masks. "And people who are profoundly deaf who use ASL as their primary mode of communication. ASL is very big on facial expressions and it is part of the grammar. So I don't know if you have seen Virginia Moore on Andy Beshear's things at five o'clock, but she's very emotive, and if half of that is gone because you're wearing a mask then half of what you're saying is being missed, so even if it's not physically talking and just using ASL, then you need to have that kind of access."

In less than two days, Larence already had dozens of orders from six states. To order one of Lawrence's masks, reach out to her at dhhmaskproject@gmail.com.

"I'm not charging anything for them because I think that if you need them, then you need them and I don't think that you should have to pay for them," Lawrence said. "So we are sending them out for free whenever we have people asking for them and if they're foreign, then maybe we'll charge shipping, but other than that they're completely free."

Those who would like to Lawrence with the cost of materials and shipping, she is accepting donations on her GoFundMe page.

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WOODFORD COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) - A college senior from Versailles put her stir-craziness to good use with a project that will help the deaf and hard of hearing community. "I just saw that people were making masks on Facebook for everyone to have instead of the throwaway masks, and I was like, what about the deaf and hard of hearing population?"

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Problem:

I don't like the thought of being knocked off my bike commuting to work.

Answer (and maybe the cause):

Cycle lanes…

My idea is to look at that state of cycle lanes in town, perhaps one place in particular on my way to work where I dice with death every morning, and look into ways to improve how they can be seen and understood - by cyclists, pedestrians and motorists.

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Whilst we're all in lock-down, working from home, college, school, etc., I discovered a problem which would be a tricky one to solve, especially within the timeframe we have for the project. It's been around for generations but the CV outbreak has made the problem more apparent. How can I get my teenage son out of his pit and into the shower? I've come up with a few solutions, mainly Wallace & Gromit / Heath Robinson based contraptions which would eject him out of the room at the touch of a button, but these would need considerable alterations to the structure of the house. Suggestions welcome…

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Obesity in children is relatively high in Nottingham - the NHS reporting 27% of the city's population falls under the 'obese' category. One of the key issues is the lack of public park space - many historic parks have been built on or have become private golf courses.

There is however, miles of unused river bank. My initial ideas are based around recreating these areas (that stretch through the entire city almost undisturbed) to somehow engage the public and re-introduce exercise outdoors.

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So I put a survey together and sent it round people who work in the library asking about how they approach design and what would make it easier for them. (cause sometimes it is a bit of a free for all!)

I’m still getting responses but I was reminded of the design toolkit that was designed for Pete Buttigieg (unfortunately you can’t access it now for obvious reasons) It brought everything you needed together in one place, took you through all the steps in creating something, explaining what to do and I thought this would be a good idea for where I work. And I know a lot of other libraries rely on whatever skills their staff have without training them so it could be useful elsewhere

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The environs around a visitor to the Midwest in winter can command a certain bleak outlook. Overcast skies, bare trees, and, if you aren't lucky enough to be there when snow has fallen, bare earth, all give the impression of lives lived in quiet grayscale. But when the Hyperakt team made the trek from their home base of Brooklyn, New York, to South Bend, Indiana, they were on a mission to take those everyday objects, artifacts, and infrastructure and thaw them out: In each was a potential piece of evidence that could tell them more about their new client, presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg.

This initial research phase is standard procedure when building a design system, no matter who the client is. The Hyperakt team locked down the brand identity within a few weeks of visiting South Bend and meeting the Buttigieg team. The system, which launched to the public on April 14, is both comprehensive and indicative of overall trends developing in the political branding space. Many Democratic presidential primary candidates have moved away from prescriptive and party-affiliated red or blue and have adopted new color palettes that speak to their political history, a practice that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' campaign branding had foreshadowed in 2018. The system Hyperakt developed currently has nine colors , from "rust belt" to "heartland yellow;" a slew of graphics representative of varying and coalitions ; and brand and that are similarly inspired by Buttigieg's background.

But after the brand identity was finalized on March 11, the Hyperakt team found themselves with about a month lead time before the campaign officially launched. Extra time is not something you'll hear a design team working on a political campaign mention very often. So what do you do with that luxury when you get it?

According to Hyperakt's principal and creative director, Deroy Peraza, you take your core idea-the brand-and experiment with new ways to push its boundaries. At the time, Hyperakt was developing digital brand guidelines so Buttigieg's team could easily access the graphic assets they needed. While doing so, they referenced the design systems of previous cycles, as well as the documentation that those teams made public after the election (including the 2016 Hillary Clinton identity and Mina Markhom's UX/UI pattern library, Pantsuit; they also took looked toward Sol Sender's work for Barack Obama). They began to ask, " How much of this can we just make public?"

After consulting with the Buttigieg team, Hyperakt iterated on the transparency of the design teams they were inspired by and decided it was more of a win to give their suite of assets to supporters upfront rather than after the election process is over. This access to the thinking behind the system and elements of branding would expedite the ability of supporters to create assets representative of their various affiliations and identities, without necessarily having to wait for deliverables to be made for them. So they made a design toolkit , which includes guidelines, inspiration, and assets, available for download on the Pete Buttigieg site. Its intent was to provide a modular starter kit that supporters could easily use and modify to plug in and participate. It's this component- Hyperakt's extreme effort to establish a brand of adaptable relatability, with the conception of a public-facing branding system-that has made the Buttigieg brand in a crowded field.

Releasing the toolkit was also an opportunity to share the candidate's story, which defies easy profiling. The main political message the Hyperakt team wanted to communicate was that Buttigieg's multi-faceted background-gay, military veteran, millennial, from modest means, former consultant, and Harvard grad, current South Bend mayor-makes him a bridge builder. The team took that conceptual story behind the brand, and anchored the visual of the main logo on the Jefferson Boulevard Bridge in South Bend, thereby marrying a metaphor for Buttigieg's politics with an actual representation of the impact that he's had on his hometown. (Sorry, design Twitter, it's not a riff on the Levi's logo.)

The release of this toolkit has not been without its criticism. Some, like art director of The Baffler Lindsay Ballant, consider it a faux-grassroots approach to opensource distribution; that by instituting guidelines, it only allows supporters to participate in the design process on the design team's terms. And the timing of the toolkit, which was released before specific policy information was published, has also been critiqued by those eager to hear more about Buttigieg's stance on the issues. (An issues page has since been added to the site.)

Peraza feels critics need to look at the toolkit differently; in his view, it's not as prescriptive as a n internal brand guide might be. In other words, it's not there to tell users what they can and can't do; rather, the toolkit is meant to give supporters a jumpstart. The point is to enable people who don't have either the design skills, the time, or the need to create their own assets. "That's who we're trying to help," says Peraza. "For those who do have the design skills; who are the people who traditionally use brand guides, they will make their own [assets] if they want to."

According to Peraza, between April 14 and May 2, the toolkit had 205,000 unique views and 45,000 downloads. Although Peraza notes that making the branding "populist" wasn't an initial goal, he feels the design toolkit has become an equalizing mechanism for Buttigieg supporters to participate and to find a way to relate to the campaign, whatever their design ability.

" We wanted the brand to feel both familiar and inclusive," says Peraza. "It's about tapping into a vernacular that's already there; that surrounds people, and giving it back to people to use and engage with."

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Very interesting:

McDonald's and other brands are making 'social distancing' logos.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/26/business/social-distancing-brand-logos-coronavirus/index.html

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This may be of interest, if any of you want to tackle a subject that relates to the current CV situation.

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In its first open brief to the creative community, the United Nations is asking for designers to help produce concise and impactful visuals to help share life-saving information on Covid-19.

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In an open brief to creatives across the globe, the United Nations has detailed how it's in need of our help. Within this unprecedented and frightening time we are experiencing due to the spread of Covid-19, the UN has identified a need for clear and concise messaging, which is equally engaging from a visual aspect as it is useful and instructional. In short, it needs a hand with communicating critical public health messages which could save the lives of many from the virus, and is in need of designers to do so.

Within the brief - the first ever for the creative community - the UN details how it is looking for "a multitude of creative solutions to reach audiences across different cultures, age groups, affiliations, geographies and languages," specifically asking those available to "extend your imagination, raise your ambition, and lend your support and ingenuity". The overall aim of which is to continue to communicate the correct information about protection from the virus, as well as preemptively to reach communities who are able to avoid an outbreak, or at least minimise risk.

To do this, the UN has identified six points of public activation which it believes are "most essential right now" and created a creative brief for each. These six briefs individually touch on personal hygiene, social distancing, knowing the symptoms of the virus and how to act, encouraging a "kindness contagion", helping to bust myths on the virus, and raise awareness for donations. It is also encouraging both individuals, agencies, brands and platforms to tackle these open briefs. For instance, it suggests creatives could "help create content for particular audiences" and "interpret messages in a fun and engaging way", while brands could donate media space or share briefs with employees, and agencies and wider media could help by leveraging talent to interpret messages around the six key points identified. "The way we communicate and how we do so is as important as what we communicate," explains the brief.

Speaking on the open brief, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres adds, "The creativity of the response must match the unique nature of the crisis - and the magnitude of the response must match its scale." Find out more detail about each brief, its tone of voice and possible ways to approach it in full below. You can sign up directly in response to a brief here.

Personal Hygiene

Although a consistent part of the rhetoric around preventing the spread of Covid-19, continuing simple hygiene measures remains of vital importance. Within this the UN notes four areas of focus for information detailing the upkeep of personal hygiene: hand washing, reduction in face touching, respiratory hygiene and staying at home. For further information on these points, and how beneficial they are, head here.

Within this completely open brief, creatives could work on new ways to ensure these details are being kept front of mind, such as through engaging animations or infographics. In order for this information to be engaged in with the serious level it requires, the UN suggests the tone for these creations should be fact-based and educational, but still maintain an upbeat, jovial and personal manner.

Physical Distancing

Again another piece of advice we should all (hopefully) be very familiar with is physical distancing, the second brief for the project. Within this brief the UN is asking for creatives to interpret ways for the public to keep in mind that they must maintain a physical distance from one another, specifically two metres (six feet) away from anyone who appears to be coughing or sneezing. This advice also includes staying at home if one begins to show symptoms of the virus, as well as avoiding gatherings and those who are more vulnerable, such as the elderly or those with underlying health conditions.

Examples of how to promote physical distancing could be anything which demonstrates its benefit, an already-in-action example being balcony concerts performed in Italy. If translating this to a more straightforward design approach, the UN recommends sticking to a tone which is based upon the above facts but also including an element of common humanity, shared experience, collective wellbeing, as well as mental and physical health.

Know the Symptoms

The third brief within the project asks creatives to create work directly appealing and reaching an individual. Asking creatives to consider how they could communicate that we must acknowledge and understand the importance of recognising symptoms, the UN is asking for creative works which will promote the fact that individuals must stay at home if they feel unwell. This also extends to communicating the importance of knowing the process for contacting health authorities, and when to do so, in your local area too. A great example of how this could be communicated is recommended by the UN here.

The suggested tone for designs tackling this section of the brief is educational and professional, considering the serious information contained. At the same time, an approach should be rational, calm and reassuring, rather than alarmist.

Kindness Contagion

The next area for creatives to think about is more collective. The affect of Covid-19 threatens literally everyone and, in turn, has become the worst global crisis since WWII. Yet, there are groups who are more vulnerable and need the protection of those in a more comfortable position. Therefore this fourth brief is asking for the creativity community to think about how to promote a kindness contagion, pointing out how we need to work together "to propagate global solidarity".

As a result this brief is asking for participants to consider "resetting the narrative" by acts which could highlight "the need for global and collective cooperation to face the pandemic". Creative responses should both "inspire and spotlight acts of humanity" in this case, in both big and small ways. This approach is also inline with the UN's "Global Goals" which include no poverty, zero hunger, quality education and gender equality.

The tone for this brief should engage with common humanity, mental health, be caring and offer solidarity, empowerment, destigmatisation, inclusivity and joy.

Myth Busting

In a speech, the WHO's chief officer Dr Tedros announced: "Our greatest enemy right now is not the virus itself, it's fear, rumours and stigma." As a result, fear and misinformation are two factors the UN have identified as being "two of the biggest challenges we must overcome" during this crisis, asking designers to help bust these myths with creativity. To help support the work here is a document detailing all of WHO's myth busters.

Creative responses in this section of the brief have the opportunity to stop the spread of misinformation, particularly from leaping to a viral scale. In turn, responses to stopping such myths (even if it's a giant lasagna being made in Wembley stadium) should be fact-based considering the nature of this brief, but also reassuring, informative, rational, relevant and compassionate too.

Do more, donate

The final brief in its open call is asking creatives to consider how visual information could encourage more to donate, where possible, to the Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund. This funding goes towards both tracking and understanding the spread of the virus, ensuring care for patients and equipment for frontline workers, as well as helping towards efforts to develop vaccinations, tests and further treatments.

Suggestions for where individuals could donate from everyday expenses include encouraging people to donate their usual commuting expense or their daily coffee, now that most are working from home, for instance. Within this the UN suggests creatives empower those to donate, as well as keep to a tone of compassion and solidarity, and promote that small actions can equal big impact.

About the Author
Lucy Bourton
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lb@itsnicethat.com

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The United Nations issues an open brief to designers to help fight coronavirus

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In its first open brief to the creative community, the United Nations is asking for designers to help produce concise and impactful visuals to help share life-saving information on Covid-19. - Date Reading Time 6 minute read In an open brief to creatives across the globe, the United Nations has detailed how it's in need of our help.

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So it seems that there is a group of little sh*its around our area that people are not happy about.
They seem to be ignoring advice and still gathering in groups to cause problems for the local residents.

My idea would be to find someway of getting them focussed on something else to make sure they don't annoy folk.

I know when I was younger there were youth clubs. Not sure how I would get it working etc but something like this may work?

Thoughts most welcome :-)

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Anti Social Behaviour (ASB) covers many types of actions from low-level persistent nuisance to serious public disturbance. Our ASB policy covers the following:

behaviour that can cause nuisance and annoyance

behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress

behaviour which creates significant and persistent problems in neighbourhoods

behaviour which leaves communities feeling intimidated and afraid.

Anti social behaviour includes a range of problems - noisy neighbours, abandoned cars, vandalism, graffiti, litter and youth nuisance. Together with the Community Safety Partnership, we recognise that the behaviour of a persistent minority can ruin the lives of individuals and damage whole communities. It can hold back the regeneration of our most disadvantaged areas, creating the environment in which crime can take hold.

If you are experiencing anti social behaviour and this is being caused by someone in your neighbourhood your first point of contact should be through our Contact Centres or in the case of an emergency contact the Police on 999.

Other information on anti social behaviour can be obtained from the following organisations:

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Bolsover District Council - Anti Social Behaviour

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Anti Social Behaviour (ASB) covers many types of actions from low-level persistent nuisance to serious public disturbance. Our ASB policy covers the following: behaviour that can cause nuisance and annoyance behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress behaviour which creates significant and persistent problems in neighbourhoods behaviour which leaves communities feeling intimidated and afraid.

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Long post incoming! :)

I posted a status on Facebook asking people what the one thing they could fix or improve on in Bracknell was and why. I also posted this on local community groups for a larger response. A lot of the responses were based on the current global pandemic, such as:

• split parent families not being able to see their kids in person

• keeping your distance while shopping which elongates the process and means being outside and at risk for longer

• schools using different online educational platforms for work to do at home

• schools supplying food vouchers for those who would usually have free school meals but that opposes self-isolation rules

Basing a project on the global pandemic and issues based around it seems like too much of an obvious path to go down for this week but there seem to be a lot of opportunities for problem solving.

One of the biggest issues that I have seen in my area over the last week or so is people not being able to collect their prescribed medication because of several reasons:

• the pharmacy can’t find it

• people don’t want to queue for too long

• it’s too busy and easier to come back later

• people have been out and panic bought all of the medication so none is available

So I think my main idea for this week will be to come up with an app or online solution that will help people to be able to get their medication on time, without risk, and without worrying that there won’t be any left. There are already online solutions that doctor surgeries operate that allow you to order your medication online, but I am unsure how well these work as I haven’t been signed up to use it.

Although this solution has been done before, yet the problem of getting medication is still an issue, it makes me wonder how well these solutions actually work. That will be the challenge for me, to make it better than other solutions that are already out there.

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Social Isolation
A number of people in Canterbury are reported to be feeling depressed and anxious following the Corona Virus lockdown. It would be good to launch a pen-pal scheme, where participants receive a selection of greetings cards and pre-paid, pre-addressed envelopes to send to their pen pal. The pros is that it might appeal to an older generation that struggle with technology. However, the downside is that this would encourage people to leave the house to post the letter, which is going against the point of the lockdown and some people with mobility issues may struggle.

Food Bank
I've done some project work on the local Food Bank before, but it does of course remain an issue. One idea could be to design a virtual 'food cupboard' app that would let people know which local food banks were in need of which items, and where the items can be purchased.

Homelessness
Homelessness has been a serious problem for the last few years in Canterbury and seems to be getting worse, largely due to the decrease in affordable housing, and the gentrification of the poorer neighborhoods.  One idea would be to encourage people to volunteer for a couple of hours each week at the local homeless shelter, by organizing activities like quizzes, gardening, art and educational sessions.

Grow Your Own
Allotment waiting lists are at an all time high in Canterbury, but there is a lot of unused patches of land dotted around which could be turned into tiny community gardens. I have previously looked at a similar idea for the last semester, so I probably won't pursue this idea.

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Am I correct in assuming that these project briefs will be passed on to/chosen by other students of the cohort?

Most - if not all - solutions are influenced by how the problem is defined. I might actually go further – the definition and communication of the problem is the hard (and fun) part; the answers are obvious and simple (not necessarily easy). Should we not keep it as general as possible to give the person addressing the problem the freedom to find appropriate solutions.

I'm not trying to get out of doing more work at all; I am genuinely wondering how specific we should get.

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The other idea was discovered following all my research for my essay. Milton Keynes doesn't have a large dog rescue centre so many people are buying online, which increases puppy farming, rather than travelling to the nearing re homing centre.
I would like to look into how to make the journey from searching for a new pet and the adoption process easier to increase adopters.

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Being homeless is a global issue however the there has been a rapid increase in Milton Keynes with tents popping up under many of the underpasses. I was signed up to run this May for Winter Nights shelter a charity for the homeless in MK.
One of my ideas is to look at how to help the homeless to advise them where the nearest help, shelters and food is.

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There have been some nice ideas coming out the lock down within the local community

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There have been some nice ideas coming out the lock down within the local community

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that left me struggling to think of anything better along those lines, so I started to think about my work as a ‘locality’. Like many others, I’m working from home but normally I spend a lot of time there so it kind of fits the bill.

One thing I was thinking about is that the library produces a lot of designed materials (both physically & digitally) and if those materials are well designed, then the various users of the library will benefit. However, there are various individuals and teams producing materials (all doing things slightly differently) but within the small team I am work in, there are three of us doing an increasing amount of design work. None of us are trained (despite me doing this course) and one thing I wonder about is if what if we were all to leave?

Given that ‘design’ in the library is simply an addition to library assistant duties, whoever replaced us would have to start from scratch so would it be possible to create a design toolkit to teach new staff. We have a collection of resources but there is no imperative for anyone to use them, could there be a solution that takes people through various stages of design, explaining why certain things need to be considered? A solution that people would actually enjoy using – those people who are already involved in design might even use it to hone their skills?

I put together a survey to send round colleagues to get a rough idea of their thoughts /approaches to design, so I will see where that leads to.

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I decided that if I was gonna use Bristol as my locale for this week's challenge then I needed to quiz other people that have lived here for a while, i've been here for 1 week and i've spent almost all of that indoors!

I put a post out on Reddit  yesterday asking what the biggest problems in Bristol are at the moment and the post absolutely blew up, I got 63 responses. Seems like there's a lot of stuff to be fixed here (or at least a lot of engaged, civic minded locals with nothing better to do than respond)

View the post here if you'd like.

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With the current coronavirus situation, many animal shelters are no longer able to welcome visitors to come round and meet the animals. More pressingly, they are unable to conduct home visits and assessments for both foster and permanent homes for their animals. Funding is also extremely difficult when so many events are having to be cancelled.

I would like to explore what could be done locally to tackle this issue – are there other ways the shelters can fundraise and ensure that their animals get visibility so that when the situation is resolved, there will be families waiting to adopt the animals.

Below is a screenshot from a local shelter’s Facebook page – this is just one of many who I am sure are all facing similar issues.

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I live in a beautiful town in a nice small county surrounded by beautiful countryside, but that countryside can often be littered with unsightly, dirty rubbish. It's not just common to my county, it's estimated that 60 tonnes of illegal rubbish is dumped in Ireland every day. The reason why you may notice it more in the countryside is that usually people travel to remote rural locations where they won't be seen dumping the rubbish. Not only is it unsightly, but it is detrimental to the ecosystem. Recently, the Sub Aqua Team in the town released a video that showed a river bed littered in rubbish. At the moment people are particularly sensitive to hygiene given the Covid19 situation. Maybe I could capitalise on this by getting in touch with the local council to formulate a campaign that would educate people on the harm that this dumping is doing to the environment. So let’s not just wash our hands, let’s wash our countryside.. type-of-thing.

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Found this website whilst researching. Good starting point for thinking and idea planning etc.

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Has everyone heard of this?
Do you think this can be considered service design?

- He is serving a VERY large group of global people.
- He's using online tools to deliver the service?
- It's FREE
- It has amazing benefits both physically and mentally?

website

Based on this (and the goodgym idea) and thinking about my community, an idea would be to offer FREE training sessions. To improve health and mental state.

'I go out and train with the goal of completing my first 1/2 Ironman in Sept (if it goes ahead).'

- I could invite local people to come train with me?
- Setup a local get fit class maybe once a week to get people out. That could eventually lead them to train more days, then maybe sign up to do a physical challenge?

The training would obviously have to be similar to Joe wicks, so all levels of fitness could attend. You work hard you get the results you want.

Would love thoughts?

Thanks! J

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Start your journey to a fitter, healthier, happier you with the new Body Coach app. Welcome to the feel-good way to view transformation.

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Another topic close to the topic, I think?

The shoe makers 'Toms.'
Starting 13 years ago with a mission to sell 10,000 pairs of shoes to then giveaway the same amount to children who needed them, wherever they were.

Now a globally recognised brand giving away over 95million+ shoes, and counting!

This shows how a simple idea has the potential to become something that changes the world!

Click the link to read more, they even do a global impact report (very interesting).

Enjoy!

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We're in business to improve lives. For every $3 we make, we give $1 away.

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As everyone probably knows (or most), in the UK people (kids mostly) are being encouraged to get involved in their own design ideas. Coming up with ways to display a rainbow on your window. This is to spread happiness in a time of uncertainty .

'The rainbow represents hope and positivity during these tough times and the campaign is helping to bring a sense of unity to communities.'

I thought this was a great example of the topic we are covering this week.

Link to a website I found to read more if you don't already know.

Enjoy!

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People around the country are putting bright rainbows in their windows. You may have spotted one in your neighbour's window, or seen them around your neighbourhood when you were on your 1 piece of exercise for the day. But why are people doing this and what do the rainbows mean?

Chase the Rainbow

It's all part of a national campaign called Chase the Rainbow. The campaign is based around the simple idea of trying to help spread a little joy and positivity that can be enjoyed by anyone through the display of a rainbow. The rainbow represents hope and positivity during these tough times and the campaign is helping to bring a sense of unity to communities.

Schoolchildren have fuelled the trend, as their teachers are recommending they create 'window rainbows' as an alternative at-home art class activity. The rainbow trend has gone viral as thousands of children couldn't wait to get involved and make their own positivity rainbow. With schools now shut and children being home schooled, it's a great way to entertain your child but also bring families together at home and show everyone that we are in this together.

Such a simple idea is helping to bring your local community together at a time of separation and isolation. People will spot your bright window display from afar as they wonder by and smile to themselves and feel uplifted.

This initiative has now gone world wide, with families around the globe getting involved. Photos have surfaced in multiple countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, and Canada, of kids painting rainbows and posting them in their windows to cheer up people passing by.

Keep them entertained

It's a great activity to keep children busy and pass a few hours as they get creative and inventive to design their own rainbow masterpieces to proudly display in your windows. Some families are making the most of the activity by going on a rainbow scavenger hunt around their local neighbourhoods during their daily ventures out the house to stretch their legs.

This helps keep children's sprits lifted during what is a difficult and strange time for them, and also helps them feel connected to their friends and local children as they try and spot all the other rainbows children have made.

Get involved

We think this is such a wonderful idea that is simple and effective at bringing joy and a sense of community during these tough times. A Facebook page has been set up called Believe In Rainbows, where families are posting pictures of their own rainbow crafts.

We encourage you to get involved too, create some rainbow art and help spread some positivity! We would love you to share your rainbows with us so we can help to spread a little joy with our community too, simply tag us on Facebook or Instagram in your images and we will share.

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Why are people putting rainbows in their windows?

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People around the country are putting bright rainbows in their windows. You may have spotted one in your neighbour's window, or seen them around your neighbourhood when you were on your 1 piece of exercise for the day. But why are people doing this and what do the rainbows mean?

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Some problems if you're bored and need a challenge

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Some problems if you're bored and need a challenge

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http://schokotrunk.com/2020/03/30/week-10-apocalypse-of-the-four-ecodisasters/

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KEEPING/MAKING FRIENDSHIPS WHILE WORKING FROM HOME.

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KEEPING/MAKING FRIENDSHIPS WHILE WORKING FROM HOME.

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In a physical working environment, there are a number of reasons why relationships with your coworker can have positive effects both for yourself and for your work output. You spend a lot of time with your coworkers on a daily basis, becoming friends with these people is only natural. You end up enjoying work more when you know you have the support from your friends. You have a support system, someone to talk to that understands what you are going through. It makes you feel part of a team or for some smaller companies a family. Reduces the feelings of loneliness, which encourages motivation and productivity. You end up caring about your work more as you want to support your colleagues. Finally, this also helps your communication and interpersonal skills.

Bridge the gap of making real-life connections with coworkers while working from home. People are working from home all around the globe at the moment but this is something that is commonplace and has highlighted faults in the system. For this brief, I want to propose a method for both continuing and forming relationships with coworkers for businesses that have staff that work from home. This could be a proposal for a new digital tool, a new way of using tools that we already have, a campaign to encourage informal communication or another method to encourage healthy relationships.

https://sashamitchelll.wordpress.com/2020/03/28/research-and-reveal-develop-key-finding-analysis-and-objectives/

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Case Study: Dubai Design District - A Human-Centered Neighbourhood

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Case Study: Dubai Design District - A Human-Centered Neighbourhood

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A good podcast by Lindsay Miller: https://podbay.fm/podcast/1104134900/e/1492162637

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FOR LIFESAVERS

Times are tough, show some love. Here's what to do. Pick a couple of bad boys below. Print them out and hang them in your window (or send them to your local hospital, doctor's office or nursing home) to show those hard-working lifesavers some love and appreciation. We need them to stay happy, healthy and more importantly sane.

No printer? No problem! There are also files for you to share on your socials.

Let's support all of our medical staff and caretakers while remaining safely inside. You can do this!
WE NEED MORE POSTERS FOR THESE SUPERHEROES!!!

FOR HOME-STAYERS

What if we told you that you could save lives staying inside watching Netflix and eating pizza's? Let's be honest. It's actually a dream coming true for most of us. It's kind of like the grown-up version of getting a letter to Hogwarts. We just wished it would've been under different circumstances. Yet, you can still make a difference and flatten that curve. Be the naysayer. Be a lifesaver.

Download these posters to encourage others to become a remote hero too. Share them on a social media of your liking or print 'em out and stick 'em on your window.

Oh, and don't forget to stay the fuck inside.

About?
Stay Sane, Stay Safe saw the light of day on March 22nd after a friend, who works at a hospital, asked if we had an uplifting poster laying around for his colleagues. We didn't, but could definitely have designed one for him.

In the meantime, Max (Lennarts) had a literal shower thought and afterwards immediately called his partner Menno (de Bruijn) to discuss that this could and should be bigger. That same day a website was launched called Stay Sane, Stay Safe. At that time, the website was still empty, so Menno called another friend, Ronald (de Leeuw), to come up with some texts to fill it up.

Max and Menno form the ultra-multidisciplinary design duo Studio Lennarts & de Bruijn, based in The Hague. Ronald has his own progressive text and communication bureau called overdeschreef.
The three of us liked working together so much, that we have been able to turn SSSS in a fully operating pro bono poster platform with over 1700 designs by creatives from over 82 countries.

BUT, this isn't actually just about us, it's also about you.
It's about everyone of us.

We all feel helpless in this (first-world) madness.
Imagine what it's like for people less fortuned than us.
Yes, we've got a shortage of beds, but we still have beds.
That's why you have to stay inside.
Follow your heart, but use your head.
We wanted to share the right message and spread some love to the lifesavers out there.
At the moment we're working around the clock to make a selection of beautiful posters that we can print and send to hospitals in the area (Netherlands).

This has been a project of

Studio Lennarts & de Bruijn + overdeschreef

With special thanks to Stroom Den Haag, Drukkerij Tielen, Kapitaal Utrecht, Graphic Matters, and hopefully many more to come.

In case you'd like to join this epos, or if you have anything else you want to share with us, holler at us via Stay Sane Stay Safe Email

Hold up! Did you know you've got some superpowers?
You know, the ones that can save lives? You've got 'em!
How do we know?

Well, we've heard that you're a more than decent designer. And we're in dire need of your aid to help save people from themselves in these crazy times called COVID-19 a.k.a. the corona virus.
People need to stay the fuck home so our lifesavers can do what they do best: saving lives.
This means that it's our job as visual communication gurus to inspire people to stay at bay.
And that's where you'll come into play.

We want you to design posters to:
1 - Keep our lifesavers sane. Think happy and uplifting.
2 - Inspire the general population to stay safely inside

We'd like to call this campaign: STAY SANE, STAY SAFE.

Of course, your handle will always be mentioned on the poster, website and social media.
For us creatives these are also tough times, so this is the perfect way to save multiple lives with one design.
Download the templates here!
And submit your effort on the submission page
Eternal karma for your soul,

Team Stay Sane Stay Safe

p.s. if you have anything you want to ask or share > Stay Sane Stay Safe Email

Why isn't my design up, yet? / Why was it taken down?
Well, maybe it actually was up for a brief period of time. We don't curate much, because we're not the ones who decide what's pretty design or not, but we do curate on a great message that is well put together visually. Also, we don't need any of that racist or other divisive stuff! So, if your design got taken down, bummer, but definitely go back to the drawing board. As you can imagine we can't comment on all of your designs why they got taken down. Deal with it and don't forget to kill your darlings!

Wait, what does that red SICK label mean?
SICK is short for staff pick. It's also a word with a negative connotation initially, but flipped into something great, like savage. Classy. Bougie. Ratchet. It's also kind of ironic to use sick on a positive poster platform regarding COVID-19, don't you think? Anyway, in this case it means that these are the designs that we absolutely love at the moment. We try to change them up every now and then. We do this to showcase what we would love to see contentwise. A qualitative inspiration for those who'd like to submit, but also to lure people in further who visit the platform for the first time. Yes, we're sneaky little fuckers.

Hold up, what are you going to do with my work? I don't see anything about rights or whatsoever.
Calm down, Erin Brockovich! All of your works are still yours, we don't temper with that shit. There's a reason why we link back to you and give credits on the posters as well. Our third goal of this entire project was to give you something to do besides Animal Crossing plus to help you maybe get a gig or two out of it.
What we might do is share your poster on social, send it to media outlets or get it printed for public space. If it's something big or if we need you to change something about your poster, we'll let you know! Also, we will never sell prints of your poster without your consent. We value transparency and trust in this community!

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FOR LIFESAVERS Times are tough, show some love. Here's what to do. Pick a couple of bad boys below. Print them out and hang them in your window (or send them to your local hospital, doctor's office or nursing home) to show those hard-working lifesavers some love and appreciation.

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This is an updated Workshop Challenge, due to Covid-19. Please note, we cannot change the text on Canvas. Please answer the challenge, below:

UPDATED Challenge:

This week we want you to identify a theme or issue that relates to your locality* and present your findings on the Ideas Wall, prior to the design phase.

1. Research and discover issues that relate to your locality* and post them on the Ideas Wall. REVISED: Direct engagement is encouraged, to identify potential issues, although we understand this is unlikely in the current situation. Show evidence of reaching out, by conducting an email or letter, although we appreciate you may not get a reply.

2. Distill your research to identify one issue you would like to resolve and reveal through a visual outcome.

3. Write a short 200-word project brief that reports on the issue to be solved.

4. Design and produce a visual summary to contextualise your issue and project brief. Your summary can be a digital, print or moving image, but it must be succinct, to enable third party viewers to quickly understand the requirements, needs and challenges.

*Your locality can be broad and refer to your street, district, town, area, county or region.