Summer of 2021 I led an interdisciplinary studio where students from CCA’s undergraduate Interaction Design and Graphic Design programs worked with clients for hybrid projects.

This summer the Interaction design program is offering a unique opportunity to have undergraduate students work on real-life projects under the guidance of a faculty design director. This unique class will operate like a design studio allowing students to get work experience.

Partners in technology and design who had product experience design or design research projects partnered with us to create self-contained projects that lasted no more than six weeks. Students crafted a creative brief and established a schedule, milestones, and deliverables that work for their client organization.

I really love working with multidisciplinary teams. It’s so great to have visual designers, graphic designers, industrial designers working together. I would love to run a transdisciplinary program or start a lab or a studio with folks from wider STEM disciplines and designers working on wicked problems because the future requires looking at problems with a hard science AND design lens.

Ecopoesis

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Students Jeiko Da Silveira, Michael Edgar, Corey Rossi, Yu Liang, Marian Guerra and Tian Jiang worked with the @ecopoesis Ecopoesis Team of Leslie Carol Roberts and Chris Falliers to create a brand identity and social media strategy.

San Francisco Veterans Administration

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The VA Marketing project was for the rollout of the High-Reliability Organization Campaign for the San Francisco Veterans Administration Hospital. The Summer Studio team worked on a strategy and communication plan as well as design for staff and patient awareness. This campaign is composed of a survey that will provide baseline KPIs for visitor and patient satisfaction and staff and health provider job satisfaction. The second piece is the continued rollout of the training program and continued measurement of program efficacy. Students Phillip Joo, Ryan Kilmer, Gisselle Torres, Elena Wang, Jie-I Chen, and Danqi Huang produced this work in collaboration with Alfred Lee from the VA San Francisco Team.

Meet the Moment

The brief was to create a series of posters and materials that responded to topical or current events. This project was called Meet the Moment and lasted two weeks. Students: Min Ji Kim (IxD) Mary Vainstein (GD) Hongyu Zhao (GD) Weidi "Vick" Qi (IxD)