We're honored to see our D3 toolkits and programs included as a notable project in this years Core 77 Design awards in the educational initiatives category! Watch the announcement and learn more HERE.
BREAKING IN created by Amina Horozic (of Fuseproject) explores how over 100 different product designers got started. In her interview, Kim discusses the origins of Commonstudio, the role of collaboration, and the future of social design.
Pick up a copy and learn more HERE
We are honored and very excited to announce that we'll be headed to Rome for a year of intensive urban and social exploration in one of the most ancient and most interesting cities on earth! Please stay tuned for more details on our project and goals coming soon.
See the full announcement at: http://aarome.org/
Are you an Angeleno interested in urban ecology and citizen science? Want to better understand the distribution and uses for local vegetation in your neighborhood? Join us for a project that uses your smartphone to track and understand opportunistic plant species across LA.
Last night, Danny and Kim of Commonstudio addressed a diverse group of undergraduate students at USC's Marshall School of Business in a discussion on the role of design in social impact entrepreneurship. MOVE (Marshall Outreach and Volunteer Entrepreneurs) is a student organization at USC that is dedicated to understanding the present state and future of social enterprise in LA and beyond. We discussed our experience building one of our social businesses, Greenaid Seedbombs, and the challenges of local manufacturing, product development, marketing and scalability.
Working with teachers from LAUSD schools to deploy design thinking in under-served communities.
It's always hard to write a first post, so we'll keep this one short. Welcome to the Commonstudio blog. We are starting this because we think it's important for designers to share more than just the surface details, tidy narratives, and final outcomes of their work. We also think of this blog as a place for original content, ongoing updates on our projects and process, as well as a place to highlight inspiring bits and pieces we come across in our work along the way. We're looking forward to seeing where it takes us. Please feel free to comment, question, re-post, or just ingest it at random.
All the best,
Danny & Kim