This is going to not only be the introduction of all these different people to young kids in elementary school, but this is also the introduction of graphic design. This is the introduction of typography. This is the introduction of color theory. I’m constantly fighting with our current national design organizations revisiting the history of graphic design. How can we really provide a platform for the future of design to not be so monolithic? This is a way to introduce graphic design to kids that are in elementary school. They’ll get this book and say, ‘Wow, I haven’t seen anything like this before. I didn’t know that you could just take language and do this stuff with it.’ These are all things that kids are already exploring because they’re exploring letter forms, writing, cut paper and art. So subtle ways—maybe my whole life is about this—it’s really setting up things for the future. … [Read more...] about This gorgeous new children’s book celebrates Black Lives Matter
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Generation Innovation: How a public school STEM competition is helping educate the next wave of empathetic innovators
ANN WOO: I think the stats of US students performance on math and science just underwhelms compared to other countries. And we knew that students weren’t really interested in studying math and science here in the US. So what we wanted to do is not be a classroom, but to work with educators to understand how we as a corporation could change the conversation, could excite a generation of students to think of STEM in a different way, which is really that problem solving, critical thinking. … [Read more...] about Generation Innovation: How a public school STEM competition is helping educate the next wave of empathetic innovators