How a Rwandan Hospital Became the Symbol of Public-Interest Design
A team of students proved that public interest design can and should be culturally appropriate, location-specific, and built for the long haul.
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A Good Design Glossary to Decode the Jargon
- John Cary and Gilad Meron wrote in Social Design, Infographics and Social Impact
After last year’s Social Impact Design Summit, we began to work on one popular request: to compile a glossary of social impact design terminology. In the emerging field of social impact design, we’ve seen important discussions and efforts hamstrung, sidetracked, or misunderstood due to the lack of a unifying vocabulary. This glossary sheds light on the redundancy of certain words and phrases, and we hope it also sheds light on the fact that many leaders and practitioners are using different terms to describe almost identical processes and approaches. Despite arguments over “correct” terminology, we are all speaking the same language.
We’re eager to improve and expand this glossary, and welcome any and all corrections, edits, and additions. In particular, we ask for your help in identifying entities and individuals associated with each term as part of our larger effort to map the field. Please email glossary@publicinterestdesign.org. The glossary can also be viewed at publicinterestdesign.org/glossary.
Illustration by Jessica de Jesus
Our Friends At AbleMade Create Exclusive Products Made To Fund Social Impact Projects
Collaboration = power. We’re asking you to collaborate with us and help fund Able Made’s first 2014 collection in time for Valentines Day. Each piece in the line will fund a specific social impact project. Our beautifully designed, exclusive products are made by amazing designers and brands, and fund charitable projects around the globe. 100% of the proceeds from this fundraiser will be used to produce Able Made’s upcoming 2014 collection and help promote it through spring. Become an Able Made Producer and get amazing perks for contributing!
GOOD Community member Suzanne McKenzie wrote in Giving Tuesday and Fashion
Design Thinking: Interview with IDEO Founder David Kelley
- Adele Peters posted in Design, Design Thinking and Product Design
Charlie Rose interviews David Kelley about IDEO’s approach to human-centered design.
Updating a nonprofit's website…
Ever wonder how to make nonprofit work more interesting? Don’t overthink it. Check out how GOOD Community member Leah Neaderthal created a blog, workingatanonprofit.tumblr.com to “fulfill a community need.”
Five Reasons to Give Half Your Work Away
- Matthew Manos wrote in Business, Graphic Design and Philanthropy
Since starting my freelance design career at the age of 16, I have been giving the majority of my work away for free.
In 2008, I launched verynice, a global design and innovation consultancy that donates more than half of its work to nonprofit organizations. Over the course of five years, we have been able to perfect a business model that relies on substantial volunteerism and, as a result, we have been able to grow the business to be home to a volunteer staff of more than 250 people in order to help hundreds of nonprofit organizations across the globe save nearly $1 million.
By institutionalizing a 50 percent pro-bono commitment, giving back has become an integral component of our business. Now we want to share five reasons we think freelancers, entrepreneurs, and small businesses should do the same.
Free Platform Aims to Put Musicians in Control of Their Own Destiny
Plenty of startups are trying to figure out how to make music’s digital revolution pay off for recording artists by stripping out middlemen and turning musicians into entrepreneurs. At CASH Music, a nonprofit platform to help recording artists survive, musicians come first.
The Nomadic Designer: A Design Student Hits the Road on a Mobile Apprenticeship
- Adele Peters wrote in Design, Graphic Design and Travel
As Daniel Cooper was nearing graduation from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, he had one final student project left. He had a month to complete it, and decided to take the time to get as much real-world experience in the design industry as possible. Rather than choosing a standard internship, he ended up getting on a plane.
Design for America: A Network of Students and Designers Solving Real-World Challenges
- designforamerica wrote in Design, Education and Graphic Design
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? - Martin Luther King, Jr.”
When I was an engineering student, many of my professors assigned me to a team and asked us to solve invented problems, like how to propel a ball across a room using only cardboard and rubber bands or how to build the tallest structure out of toothpicks and marshmallows. Other professors asked us to design specific things, such as laparoscopic suturing devices or fetal monitoring devices. But my favorite professors allowed me to choose my team and encouraged us to find our own problems to work on. Those assignments were the ones that made me feel I was helping others most. As a design engineer, I wanted meaning—and I wanted to choose my team.
That was one source of inspiration for Design for America, or DFA.
Ask Brands to Try a Design Solution to Cut Packaging Waste
- Aaron Mickelson posted in Design, Product Design and Sustainable Design
Every year, Americans throw out 70 million tons of packaging. We can do better. Email or tweet at your favorite brand and ask them to consider one of these solutions to make packaging disappear.
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