SD Standard
How can a designer have a positive impact on the planet? What should designers consider? Should designers be accountable for the emissions they contribute to producing from the products they design? Or should we be held accountable for the human rights we promote? Or fail to support? The SD Standard is a project I’ve been…
MIT IDEAS Global Challenge
Since 2012, i’ve had the privilege of volunteering for the MIT IDEAS Global Challenge, ran by MIT (Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center), designing the visual identity of this group, plus the program’s award ceremony every year. The visual identity is composed of various dots that represent the different activities undertaken by students, as they…
Museum signage proposal
For a Mexico City museum, i was invited to present a proposal for signage. I developed the wayfinding iconography, and related signage, but also proposals for the museum´s educational activities and related materials, thinking of how returning visitors might experience the museum as well as first-time visitors . Although the project didn´t come to fruition…
Poster for Triennial Arts event
As part of a competition, my poster was selected as one of the six winning entries that promoted the 2009 Second Poli/Graphic Triennial in Puerto Rico for the duration of the event. I chose to represent the triennial’s Latinamerican theme by doing a ‘post-it’ map of the continent and hand-drawing the typography, contrasting digital and analog references….
Sustainability Actors Map
In recent months I´ve collected basic information on how organizations, companies, and public sector institutions are using design methods to solve sustainability problems in three broad categories (social, economic, and environmental impact). Doing a scan of 116 organizations and companies that are using design methods for business, social, or environmental innovation, some highlights became apparent: There…
Now House: A system to retrofit wartime houses to net-zero energy
Design as tool for home energy reduction and net-zero energy retrofits.
What if Greenland was Africa´s Water Fountain?
Design as conversation catalyst around Climate Change
Visual identity for mnartists.org
The brief for this project was to create a visual identity for mnartists.org, an online arts organization that can exist on- and off-line. Using statistical information about the five major areas of the organization’s website, an asymetrical pentagon was algorithmically rendered. The resulting logo is updated every hour on the masthead of the website….
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