23 years ago, from a refugee camp in Kenya, my father and I arrived at an airport in Washington DC.
Today, we return to that same airport on the eve of my swearing in as the first Somali-American in Congress.
#Hope#Ilhan 🙏🏾
Furthermore, 70% of graphic design students are women, yet only 11% of creative directors are women - showing how women drop off the pay and promotion scale as they progress in their careers
Paula Scher designs environmental graphics for @Scholastic corporate headquarters that reinterpret iconic characters like Harry Potter, Clifford the Big Red Dog & Captain Underpants as artworks & installations https://t.co/BN4VWN3Hzz
Inclusive design matters every day. This modular voting booth designed by @IDEO for @countyofla will soon travel to @thecmoa as part of the @cooperhewitt exhibition #DesignAccess. Set to launch in 2020, it ensures that voters with vision and hearing loss… https://t.co/ifEwYuFobT
#MFJSdesign a cool interactive about all the buildings in America. But I mean, what about streets? Aren’t they the great unifiers of people and places? What could a graphic like that show us?
Most of the time, The New York Times asks you to read something. Today we are inviting you, simply, to look: Here's a map of every building in America
https://t.co/99USj9Q93Y
#MFJSdesign Currency as a design of an everyday thing. Still think the US system would be friendlier if it distinguished bills by color and/or size. It would be way more intuitive!
"Design research is like being a reporter or anthropologist or therapist—you’re given access to people’s lives that feels like a great privilege, and with that privilege comes great responsibility." https://t.co/6H71cbVnBK
A chopstick to bind the editorial pages together. How clever is that?
This project by @vmragona raises awareness about deforestation in China from the effects of producing everyday objects like chopsticks: https://t.co/CNx5d9iRog #madewithID
Robots are the most powerful blank slate humans have ever created. What we make of the machine reflects what we are. That means we have the very real opportunity to screw up robots by infusing them with exaggerated, overly simplified gender stereotypes. https://t.co/rttULfGij5