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• Workplace • Issue 016

  Designing for Designers

  If you’ve ever taken on a design project with a designer for a client, you know that dueling opinions often lead to frustration—theirs, yours, or both. It stands to reason, because designers are paid to have strong points of view. They know what they like. They have their own ideas and lofty goals. Designer egos? Let’s just say, self-confidence is a practical job requirement. And as consultants themselves, they know the traditional client management tricks and aren’t likely to appreciate being “handled.” Now imagine that your client is a whole room full of designers. Are you brave enough (foolish enough?) to believe you can lead them to accept your vision?

  

• Community • Issue 016

  Igniting Social Change Through a Screen

  Writer’s Block inK was started in 2003 in New London, Connecticut, as a non-profit organization to support youth in writing and performing as tools to address personal and social challenges on the community stage.

  

• Workplace • Issue 016

  Career Interrupted

  For the past 20 years, I have helped businesses build innovation teams and helped design professionals find career success.

  

• Environment • Issue 015

  Our Future World

  At Arup, I work as a foresight practitioner, where my job is to consider the future of the built environment and how today’s designs can make an impact; as well as thinking about the future impact we want to make to consider how we can design things today to achieve a future that is fit for us all.

  

• Environment • Issue 014

  Developing an Outdoor Voice

  The Trustees, an organization that set the precedent for private land conservation in the U.S., rebranded with an expanded idea of how and why we engage with nature.

  

• Community • Issue 013

  Financial Wellbeing Intervention

  Imagine a 25-year-old employee of a major corporation walking around with a large hole in his shoe because replacing them wasn’t a financial possibility.