“Graphic design is the filter through which nearly all communication is now disseminated. Therefore graphic designers are in a unique position as the gatekeepers of information. What, how, and for whom we choose to communicate are crucial decisions that have a serious impact on our civilization.” Noah Scalin |
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Design Rebels: Social Concious Graphic Design in Theory and Practice Graphic Design Program Virginia Commonwealth University “The goal of this couse is to encourage students to actively question the role and responsibilities of the designer in today’s society. The class will also allow students to see the practical effect their chosen field can have on the community while also allowing them to give something back to it.” Design Rebels Website > |
| The following links provide additional information for Visual Communications educators interested in bringing social responsibility into their classrooms and coursework. | ||
Adobe Design and Film School Connection  |
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“A site where students and faculty members can find free resources for using Adobe software products in coursework, projects, and career preparation; use tips and tutorials; receive and give helpful advice; and read about new trends and upcoming design events” Website >  |
| Advertising Educational Foundation — AEF |  |
“The advertising industry's provider and distributor of educational content to enrich the understanding of advertising and its role in culture, society and the economy.” Website > |
| AIGA Design Educators Community | |
“The community actively supports design educators in a variety of institutional settings through events, conferences, surveys, research, and a host of initiatives.” Website > |
| American Association of State Colleges and Universities
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“The goals of the project are: 1.) to increase the number of undergraduate students who understand and are committed to engaging in meaningful civic actions by asking participating institutions to review and restructure academic programs and processes, extracurricular programs and activities, and the institutional culture; and 2.) to focus the attention of policy makers and opinion leaders on the civic value of the college experience.” Website > |
| Aspen Design Challenge |
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“The Aspen Design Challenge is an annual call to students worldwide, inviting them to address an international problem that is not only crucial in today’s world, but critical to our survival and the world that we will one day inhabit.” Website > |
| Association of American Colleges and Universities |
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“An initiative that champions the value of a liberal education—for individual students and for a nation dependent on economic creativity and democratic vitality. The initiative focuses campus practice on fostering essential learning outcomes for all students, whatever their chosen field of study.” Website > |
| Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design |
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“AICAD is a consortium of 35 leading art schools in the United States. AICAD seeks to advance art and design edcuation by strengthening its member colleges individually and collectively. All members are BFA and/or MFA granting, fully accredited, specialized colleges of art and design.” Website > |
| Archeworks |
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“An alternative design school where students work in multidisciplinary teams with nonprofit partners to create design solutions for social concerns.” Website > |
| ART459: Graphic Design and Social Change |
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“Art 459: Graphic Design and Social Change was introduced as a 400 level course at the Ohio University School of Art in 2006. The course surveyed an array of visual styles and printing media, dating from the Russian Revolution to the present in the form of artistic posters, non-commercial advertisements, and political propaganda.” Website > |
| Campus Compact |
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“Campus Compact is a coalition of more than 1,100 college and university presidents — representing some 6 million students — who are committed to fulfilling the public purposes of higher education. As the only national association dedicated to this mission, Campus Compact is a leader in building civic engagement into campus and academic life.” Website > |
| Center for Art and Public Life at California College of the Arts |
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“The Center for Art and Public Life creates community partnerships using the arts to address issues of social justice, diversity, community development, and education. Our programming is woven across disciplines at California College of the Arts and serves the diverse populations of the San Francisco Bay Area.” Website > |
| Center for Communication & Civic Engagement |
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“The Center for Communication and Civic Engagement in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington is dedicated to research, the creation of citizen resources and student-designed learning experiences that develop new areas of positive citizen involvement in politics and social life. Our primary focus is to understand how new information technologies can supplement more traditional forms of communication to facilitate civic engagement.” Website > |
| Citizen Scholar |
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“Design consulting and creative services for cultural institutions, educators, artists, non-profits and social entrepreneurs” Website > |
| Combining Service and Learning in Higher Education |
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Evaluation of the Learn and Serve America, Higher Education Program Maryann J. Gray “As mandated by the U.S. Congress, this report evaluates the Learn and Serve America program's effects on higher education students (service providers), service recipients, and higher education institutions, and assesses the program's return on investment.” Website > |
| Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media |
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“To assist academic institutions of art, design and media in their development and in enhancing their contribution to society.” Website > |
| Design education: sharing the future |
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“An open-source (ad-free) initiative conducted by Gustavo Machado, a socially and environmentally conscious designer and educator with an almost utopian dream: redesign the world.” Website > |
| Design Feast |
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“Design Feast is a go-to resource
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design-curious—delivering relevant and diverse design content, creative voices and projects.” Website > |
| DESIGN REBELS: socially conscious graphic design in theory and practice |
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“GDES 491.003 Noah Scalin,
Graphic Design program, Virginia Commonwealth University—Graphic design is the filter through which nearly all communication is now disseminated. Therefore graphic designers are in a unique position as the gatekeepers of information. What, how, and for whom we choose to communicate are crucial decisions that have a serious impact on our civilization.” Website > |
| EDGE: Ethics of a Designer in Global Economy by EDGE Class |
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“This book is the culmination of the work done by the students of the EDGE (Ethics of a Designer in a Global Economy) class taught at the University of Illinois by Graphic Design Professors Eric Benson and John Jennings. The book details how/why this design ethics course was put together, catalogs the student work and also provides a course ‘lessons learned’ and bibliography for other educators to teach this kind of course again.” Website > |
| Green Colleges |
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“The authoritative guide to green, socially responsible, progressive and alternative colleges.” Website > |
| Imagining America |
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“A national consortium of colleges and universities committed to public scholarship in the arts, humanities, and design. Public scholarship joins serious intellectual endeavor with a commitment to public practice and public consequence.” Website > |
| Implementing Service Learning in Higher Education |
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by Robert G. Bringle, Julie A. Hatcher Link > |
| Institute for Volunteer Research |
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“The Institute for Volunteering Research aims to develop knowledge and understanding of volunteering in a way that is relevant to practitioners and policy makers. This site provides an overview of the work of the Institute as well as detailed summaries of research that it has undertaken.” Website > |
| International Forum on Globalization |
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“THE INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON GLOBALIZATION (IFG) is a North-South research and educational institution composed of leading activists, economists, scholars, and researchers providing analyses and critiques on the cultural, social, political, and environmental impacts of economic globalization.” Website > |
| International Organization for Standardization |
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“ISO is taking action to ensure that the standard will benefit from broad input by all those with a serious interest in social responsibility. This is being achieved by a balanced representation in the working group, of six designated stakeholder categories: industry, government, labour, consumers, nongovernmental organizations and others, in addition to geographical and gender-based balance.” Website > |
| The Journal for Civic Commitment |
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“The Journal for Civic Commitment: a twice-yearly, online journal dedicated to service learning and civic engagement.” Website > |
| Mess Hall Press |
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“Run by a volunteer staff of local artists, graphic designers and communication professionals, Mess Hall Press teaches the fundamentals of the creative process through the art of screen-printing.” Website > |
| The Nonprofit Quarterly |
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“Promoting spirited nonprofit management.” Website > |
| Stanford Social Innovation Review |
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“Strategies, tools and ideas for nonprofits, foundations, and socially responsible businesses.” Website > |
| Taproot Foundation |
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“We partner with corporations, universities, and trade associations to infuse the pro bono ethic into every business profession — increasing the resources available to the nonprofit sector. By 2020, we strive to have all business professionals consider pro bono work an integrated and esteemed part of their careers.” Website > |
| Trends in Higher Education |
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“The Society for College and University Planning publishes this environmental scanning report as one outcome of routine work which informs our board of directors. We share this in the interest of providing our members and the broader higher education community with an ongoing analysis of trends that affect integrated planning in institutions.” Website > |
| Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction |
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“Art and Design Education-Resources.” Website > |
| Youth Civic Engagement: An Institutional Turn |
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“The papers in this collection were written by an interdisciplinary group to address two main questions: What conditions deter young people’s involvement in politics and civic life? What reforms could enhance youth engagement?” Website > |
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