Category: Design
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Arte Agora Cities Series
Today I launched a set of websites where people can view a collection of Arte Agora pieces in cities across the world.
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Marketing collateral for street art book
Website Blank poster to be customized for each event Postcard Postcard for books signing event
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User Research Sessions, June 2021
This month at Civic we got our first chances to do in-person user experience research with our customers.
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Design Thinking Day with Madonna Scholars
Today I lead the current crop of Madonna Scholars in a day of design thinking at The Chicago Community Trust. Here’s a presentation from the day: Madonna youth from Daniel X. O’Neil And a team pic:
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Panel: “Design Thinking and Learning Together”
Today I participated in a panel discussion with Susan Patterson, co-director, KCIC, Knight Foundation; Kelly Ryan, CEO, Incourage Community Foundation; Emmett D. Carson, Ph.D., CEO, Silicon Valley Community Foundation; and Chris Daggett, president & CEO, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. We talked about the work our organizations have done together in the Knight Community Information Challenge deep dive cohort. Here’s video:…
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Interview: “Hacking Design Research” In Civic Quarterly
Today I did an interview with Civic Quarterly, a publication about transforming government with digital tools & design thinking. Here’s a snip: AM: The CUTGroup book feels like a great example of “designing in the open,” sharing everything your team’s learned thus far—warts and all. How much of the existing design literature formed the basis of…
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PANEL: Ezio Manzini Lecture on Social Innovation
Tonight I participated in a panel discussion following a lecture by Ezio Manzini, a leading expert on desgin and sustainability titled, “”Small Projects, Large Changes: Scaling Up Sustainable Solutions”. It was great to see someone pull together the many threads we’ve seen in city life around cooperative development, hacking the infrastructure, and generally making things…
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Abandoned Logo for Catholic Parish
Sometime in 2002 I helped provide input and materials (photos of interior of church, for instance) for the creation of a proposed new logo for a Catholic church in Chicago. It was unsuccessful. Here it is: