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DESIGNMATTERS IN THE MEDIA

Camel Mobile Clinic Update
ChangeObserver
by Ernest Beck
An article updates Camel Mobile Clinic filed-testing in Kenya and Ethiopia.
 
How to Run a Design Firm for Social Change
ChangeObserver
by Ernest Beck
This article presents an overview of new business model for social impact design.
 
Es Tiempo
ChangeObserver
by Ernest Beck
A campaign to protect the health of Southern California's Latinas overturns conventional assumptions of why these women fail to seek preventive measures.
 
"The Design Innovation Aspects of a Camel Saddle System"
The design innovation aspects of a camel saddle system that integrates solar technology for mobile clinics in Africa (a Designmatters ongoing collaboration with Princeton and Nomadic Communities Trust) was profiled in several articles since December, 2009:
Solar Powered Camel Clinics Deliver Vaccines to Kenya
Wired UK/News Culture
By Michael Conroy
Using Camels to Deliver Health Care in Rural Africa
Toronto Star, Canada
By Craig and Marc Kielburger
* also republished in the Huffington Post here
Solar Powered Camel
Greenz Magazine, Japan
 
Interview to the The Chilean newspaper El Mercurio and its week-end design magazine edition which featured the project.
 
Six Solutions for Saving Water and Saving Lives
Fast Company
By Alissa Walker
An article introduces the six outcomes of Designmatters “Safe Agua Chile” project.
 
Reflections: The Designers Accord Global Summit on Sustainability & Education
Core 77
by Andrea Mangini
An article about two days Global summit activities and reports focused on sustainability and education, which was held by Designers Accord.
 
Aspen Design Summit: Designmatters Report
Design Observer
Mariana Amatullo reports on the Aspen Design Summit.
 
The First Drop to a Life-Changing Story: Safe Agua Chile
Ashoka Tech
By Diana Corrales
Ashoka Tech blog profiles Safe Agua Chile project and student process with weekly series at Ashoka.org.
 
Designmatters “Safe Water Chile” El Mercurio Newspaper, Chile
Articles highlighting the Designmatters Fall 2009 “Safe Water Chile” project, conducted in partnership with the Santiago-based humanitarian organization Un Techo Para Chile. The studio is focused on products and environmental interventions to help slum-dwellers transport, store, efficiently use, conserve and re-use water in their daily lives.
 
Design 21
Article about the IMI project and the Designmatters/Caltech collaboration on the class, "Engineering Design of Products for the Developing World."
 
Print Magazine                                
By Monica Racic
The Designmatters program is highlighted as one of the best philanthropy programs in design education. 

A Conversation with Mariana Amatullo
Oberholtzer Visual Culture
An interview with Mariana Amatullo regarding The Los Angeles Earthquake: Get Ready project.

Book Review: The L.A. Earthquake Sourcebook
Core 77
By Robert Blinn
A review of The L.A. Earthquake Sourcebook which was released in collaboration with The Great Southern California ShakeOut.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Earthquakes, But Were Afraid to Ask
Curbed L.A.
By Marissa Gluck
Art Center is referenced here in this article about The L.A. Earthquake Sourcebook

Posters that Redeclare Human Rights
Print Magazine
By Paul Morris
This article describes the poster exhibition Images for Human Rights: Student Voices, designed by 16 Art Center students, in Pasadena's Central Library

5 W's: Art Center College of Design's Designmatters Initiative Helps Southern California Get Ready for the Big One
STEP Inside Design
By Tom Biederdick
Art Center is featured in this article about Designmatters and The L.A. Earthquake: Get Ready Project

Students Let Their Voices Be Heard in Poster Exhibit
Pasadena Star-News
By Janette Williams
Art Center's Human Rights: Student Voices exhibit at the Pasadena Central Library was featured in the Pasadena Star-News.

The Writing on the Wall
Pasadena Weekly
By Joe Pissetti
Art Center's exhibit Human Rights: Student Voices was featured in the Pasadena Weekly.

Rehearsing for California's Big Earthquake
Time Magazine
By Amanda Ripley
Mariana Amatullo and Art Center are mentioned in this article about the Southern California Shakeout.

Crying Wolf About the 'Big One' Hasn't Worked, So Let's Party
Wall Street Journal
By Gabriel Kahn
This article references Designmatters' role in organizing the 'Get Ready Rally'

L.A. Preps for the Big One With Massively Multiplayer Earthquake
Wired
By Alexis Madrigal
This post showcases the Earthquake response game "Aftershock."

When Designers Anticipate the Next Big One
Core 77
By Mark Vanderbeeken
This article place Aftershock within the context of the larger design initiative "The Los Angeles Earthquake: Get Ready."

Get Ready for the Big ShakeOut
Design 21
By Mariana Amatullo
Mariana Amatullo outlines the Great Southern California ShakeOut.

A Brighter Future
NEED Magazine, Issue 5
By Meghan Garrity
The Mpala project is profiled in this article on solar energy in the developing world. 

Deserve Your Dream: Design Education and Advocacy
Core77
Written by Mariana Amatullo, Director of Designmatters, on design education for social change.

Blowing Competition Up, and Other Acts of Good Citizenship
Design-Altruism-Project
By David Stairs
Designmatters mentioned in this article on design education as good citizenship.

Design for the Other 90 Percent  
Ping Mag
By Aroldo Cardoso Jr.
The Katrina Furniture Project is featured in this interview with Cynthia E. Smith, curator of the Design for the Other 90% exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt.

Design Education: Designmatters at Art Center
Project H Design
A post highlighting Designmatters. 

Cihuame Project: The art of helping
La Opinión
By Pablo Baler
An article featuring the Cihuame photography project.

Real World Education 
Design21
By Sarah Lidgus
Designmatters program and projects profiled in Design21, a social design network in partnership with UNESCO. 

Project & Principles  
Metropolis
By Stephen Zacks
The Color Guard Mosquito Net developed in the GE Healthcare: Anywhere studio is featured in this article on product and industrial design work by students in the U.S. and Europe.

Friends for 80 Years  
Pasadena Star-News
By Larry Wilson
"Action: Art Center and the United Nations" exhibit at South Campus is highlighted in this article.

Designmatters: Let artists and intellectuals be an antidote to the consistent barrage of 'what doesn't work'  
Pasadena Weekly
By Ellen Snortland
An article profiling the Designmatters initiative.

Playing for Keeps: A design competition kick-starts AIDS education in South African town 
I.D. Magazine
By Jessie Scanlon
This article features the work done in the Nyumbani Village project .

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

2010

ID-Mag.com
"Es Tiempo"
Best in Category

2009

Corbis Creativity for Social Justice Award
Images Speak
Publication developed as part of the Mpala project

Art Directors Club Award, Silver Cube
Images Speak
Publication developed as part of the Mpala project

Art Directors Awards, Broadcast Advertising Category, Merit Award
"Blowing Smoke", PSA directed by Jonas Mayabb (Film)

ID Magazine Annual Design Review, Award of Distinction, Student Work
“Blowing Smoke”, PSA Directed by Jonas Mayabb (Film)

2008

Silver Spark Award, World-Changing Category
Images Speak
Publication developed as part of the Mpala project

Southern California World Water Forum College Grant
Agua Pura
Solar water purifier designed to provide access to clean water in rural Guatemala

Bronze Industrial Design Excellence Award
Color Guard Moquito Net
Developed in GE Healthcare Anywhere studio

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ College Television Award, First Place, Outstanding Commercials Category
“Blowing Smoke,” PSA directed by Jonas Mayabb (Film)

Clio Award, Student Category, Television/Cinema/Digital
“Blowing Smoke,” PSA directed by Jonas Mayabb (Film)

Clio Award, Student Category, Television/Cinema/Digital
“Moving Day,” PSA directed by Gregg Casson (Film)

Silver ADDY Award, Student Category, Los Angeles City Level
“Moving Day,” PSA directed by Gregg Casson (Film)

Three Bronze Telly Awards, Commercial Category
“Moving Day,” PSA directed by Gregg Casson (Film)

Silver ADDY Award, Student Category, Los Angeles City Level
“The G.G. Meeting,” PSA directed by Alice Park (Film)

Gold ADDY Award, Student Category, District Level
“The G.G. Meeting,” PSA directed by Alice Park (Film) 

National ADDY Award Finalist
“The G.G. Meeting,” PSA directed by Alice Park (Film)

Bronze Telly Award, Commercial Category
“The G.G. Meeting,” PSA directed by Alice Park (Film)

Shortlist, Cannes Film Festival Young Director Award, Non-European Film School Category
“The G.G. Meeting,” PSA directed by Alice Park (Film)

2007

Mobius Award, Student Category, Television
“Moving Day,” PSA directed by Gregg Casson (Film)

2006

Gold status, Summit Creative Awards, PSA Video Category
“My First Experience,” PSA directed by Cody Heller (Film)

Bronze Telly Awards, Video Category
“My First Experience,” PSA directed by Cody Heller (Film)

2004

Second Place, Adobe Design Achievement Award, Print Collaboration Category
Nyumbani Village Concept Cards developed as part of the Nyumbani Village project

2003

Second Place, Cannes Film Festival, Young Directors Award
“Prelude #2,” PSA directed by Hoku Uchiyama (Film)

 
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