farah altabbaa: The Weaving of Design and Community

The article mainly talked about designers who have helped the community throughout their careers and helped other designers to see their ways in helping others.
The author of this article is Julie Baugnet, an American designer, Studied and worked in St. cloud state university and became an associate professor in it. Most of her freelance design work is non-profit organization. She is a visual artist, painter, and writer.She Painted a book called “Trees” and wrote books and journals. She wrote the article to raise awareness about what are the responsibility of the designer as a part from the community and how can he apply that by doing his work and what he mostly love"design". as she wanted to encourage them to relate themselves to a current cause or to a nonprofit organization.

The major change is understanding what design is and how can we apply it in the use of the community. Before awareness, nonprofit organization used to ask from the society to donate without having events or campaigns, but now they started to run on special events so people would trust them and be more interested to donate. They are sure that the money will go for the cause not for the organization. These campaigns are created to spread the need more through posters and Ads, so all people would interact.Now in KSA more companies are aware of volunteer work, and nonprofit events. Designers started to feel responsible about the society and involve in the volunteer work.

Visuals from the article

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