To be a successful designer and artist, you must understand yourself. You are in the middle of the circle. After you have an awareness of self, you can balance your relationships. Next, you can work and better your community. Finally, you can tackle the great issues of society. Design affects all levels from personal projects to highly structured systems of human organization.
Through the succession of exercises, both analog and digital, I have created a series of projects that help the student get to know themself and how design is a powerful tool within community and society. These projects start with different brainstorm techniques that the students can use throughout their tenure.
We start by asking questions like: How do you design for yourself? Much of graphic design is working with others; will you work well with others? How can you design for the community? How do graphic designers affect the ?community? How will you designs affect society? Can design change the world?
