+DESIGN: CREATIVE DESIGN SOLUTIONS
From discarded office stationary to climate change, the +DESIGN website shows how communication design can help address a number of complex challenges in unusual and creative ways. Many of these solutions tackle various UN Millennium Development Goals.
We invite you to comment on the solutions featured on the +DESIGN website. This site is meant to intrigue and invoke dialogue.
You are also encouraged to submit your own implemented projects to the . For more details on the submission requirements, please visit the +DESIGN Project page.
For this week's Blog, we would like to hear your thoughts on design's role in development. In your experience, how has communication design provided unique solutions for issues impacting local, regional or global populations? Is there an issue that has inspired you to find a solution through communication design?
Comments:
In July 1987, a working paper entitled Graphic Design for Development was submitted by board members of ICOGRADA to UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization), following a 4-day seminar in Nairobi, Kenya. The main objectives of the seminar were to raise awareness on the contributions graphic design can make in improving people’s lives and to increase a better understanding of graphic design in international organizations. These issues raised over 20 years ago are still relevant today as graphic designers become more sensitive to world issues and the professional world of design tries to encourage and promote new social design practices in partnership with the United Nations and its sister-agencies. Graphic design, as a branding and communication tool, is more commonly used within the UN system and its public information structures - notably in partnership with design institutions and associations. Communication designers can play a very important role in international organizations because they have the skills to translate difficult messages into inspiring images/sounds/texts.
1:19 AM | May 02, 2008 PST (GMT - 8)
![[Image: Design by Aliona Solomadina, Ukraine]](/database/images/display/sb4b8edb1704d63.jpg "Design by Aliona Solomadina, Ukraine")
