Design Altruism Project
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Design Altruism Project is the intersection of the design and altruism memeplexes. It is an initiative of designers without borders. Follow to know more and keep up with the blog.
Design Altruism Project
5M ago
David Stairs I had an inauspicious beginning as a painter. When I was 10 or 11 years old, I received a paint-by-numbers kit. I set about dutifully filling in the pre-designated spaces with the provided colors, used directly from the bottle— no color mixing— and when I was finished I had something that approximated a bird ..read more
Design Altruism Project
6M ago
David Stairs In June of 1967 I was a freshman in high school. My family was staunchly Republican and, in those days, I didn’t know any better. When Egypt and Syria attacked Israel, precipitating the Six Day War, I made a cartoon of Gamal Abdel Nasser that I thought was pretty clever ..read more
Design Altruism Project
7M ago
David Stairs Taking daily ice core samples on Antarctica. Courtesy BBC Just this week the BBC reports that sea ice surrounding Antarctica is “mind-blowingly” low. This probably does not concern you too much. After all, you’ve never been to Antarctica ..read more
Design Altruism Project
8M ago
David Stairs Summer 2023 may be remembered as the year Americans finally awoke to climate change. While choking smoke from Canadian wildfires enveloped cities like Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, and New York, places in the southwest suffered record high temps ..read more
Design Altruism Project
9M ago
David Stairs In the Land of Celebrity, the Expert is King. It would be difficult to argue that our society is not obsessed with celebrities. From film stars to athletes, politicians to the Pope— and let’s not forget the British Royal Family— in America the Cult of Personality reigns supreme ..read more
Design Altruism Project
10M ago
David Stairs Apartheid is an Afrikaans word meaning “segregated by race” that entered the general vocabulary during white control of South Africa and Namibia from 1948 to 1994. Its usefulness has expanded in the years since until nowadays it has ..read more
Design Altruism Project
11M ago
David Stairs Chris Stairs, age 5 I’ve never been shy about self-publishing. I published my first small book in 1980. In those days there was a sort of pioneering enthusiasm about what has come to be known as artist’s books ..read more
Design Altruism Project
1y ago
David Stairs Malian terra cotta beads Bling. When you start seeing it on Nike sneakers you’ve got to know it’s everywhere. But there are alternatives to manufactured bling if you know where to look for them. When I lived in ..read more
Design Altruism Project
1y ago
David Stairs Designers are such pragmatists. Look at any form of commercial online instruction platform and you will be underwhelmed by volume of courses meant to help people improve their marketability. Whether you are obsessing over the need to improve ..read more
Design Altruism Project
1y ago
David Stairs Recently I was working on an article for a design periodical when I hit on the idea to compare an American brand icon to an African DIY counterpart. It was not a fair comparison. The American product was ..read more