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Designer: Vol. 45, No. 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2020)
This issue is also available as a downloadable PDF.
FEATURES
WHAT DOES DIVERSITY MEAN IN HIGHER EDUCATION?
By Ella Rue
And how do we visually articulate it? Diversity has long been a ‘go-to’ term on university campuses across the country. To some schools, diversity seems to come naturally simply due to a campus’s respective demographic. But ask different people what diversity means, and answers will usually vary.
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DESIGN FOR COMPLEXITY
By Ali Place and Dajana Nedic
Co-designing to address food insecurity with campus collaborators. Design for complexity means to design within tremendous uncertainty during events requiring one to shift and pivot continually. Teaching under such conditions can be unnerving for educators and overwhelming for students.
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HOW TO BUILD A BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
Maybe you’re in this situation: You know you need to build business relationships. Maybe you want to do it better. Maybe you want to learn this skill for your freelance business, your part-time business, or your 9-5 job. Relationship building is both a science and an art. It requires some focus. It requires being genuine. It requires an understanding of people—which you have even if you don’t think you do. And above all, it requires a true desire to help people.
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HELPING STUDENTS REALIZE THE VALUE OF CRITIQUE/FEEDBACK
By Neal Ward
Subjective vs objective: the eternal battle with design critiques. I know, I know. Another article on how to critique. Over the past few years, I have been experimenting with various critique styles in my graphic design courses to build students’ design confidence, engagement, and perceived value of feedback.
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AT FIFTY
UCDA celebrates a milestone anniversary in 2020. As part of our 50th anniversary celebration we reached out to our honorary and emeritus members and memorable speakers and friends. We asked this talented group to create an interpretation of the number 50 for our “At Fifty” project where we explore and interpret the number 50 from many possible angles.
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DEPARTMENTS
OBJET D’ART: TURNTABLE AND VINYL RECORDS
A turntable is the circular rotating platform of a phonograph...
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FABIAN WILLIAMS
2020 UCDA Foundation Krider Prize for Creativity Recipient
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UCDA DESIGN AWARDS
Judges select their top picks from the 2020 UCDA Design Awards
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TOGETHER
By Daniel Piper
Milton Glaser’s unseen final logo could be his best ever
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SWITCH-OFF
By Michael Johnson
How to switch-off after work and boost your productivity
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ONLINE PORTFOLIO
By Eden Spivak
Seven best tips for creating an online design portfolio
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ZOOM HACKS
By Colleen O'Connor
Ten Zoom meeting hacks you may not know
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COFFEE BEAN, CARROT, OR EGG?
By Libby Reimer
Being artists, we are all visual learners...
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“SHAZAM” FOR COLORS
By Daniel Piper
Pantone’s new Color Match Card is a total game-changer
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BIG PICTURE
Photograph by Denis Tangney Jr.
Harvard in winter.
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DESIGN BRIEFS
News and information to help you through your day
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CONTRIBUTORS
The talented people contributing to this issue
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PARTING SHOT
Photographs by Liz Chrisman
When UCDA pivots to virtual: you make a celebratory sourdough loaf...
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