LEAP Dialogues
Published by Art Center College of Design, and distributed by DAP
Andrew co-edited this award-winning book about the evolving role(s) that designers can play to shape positive impact. He helped to develop and shape this 360-page book.
Image © Lucia Loiso
LEAP Dialogues: Career Pathways in Design for Social Innovation is a first-of-its-kind book that explores the new careers in the emergent field of design for social innovation with contributions from 84 leaders from across disciplines and sectors. These contributors encompass diverse points of view, stories, and experiences about key issues, creating a multilayered picture of how this field is being shaped.
Table of Contents. Image © twopoints.net
The professional landscape for design in social innovation has reached a critical moment. Designers are now acting as mediators, synthesizers and key contributors of social and environmental challenges at a strategic level. Organizations are recognizing that designers bring a unique set of abilities and methods for developing human-centered artifacts, services, environments and systems. Fueled in part by strong student demand, new graduate and undergraduate programs in social design are emerging across the nation. Graduates from these programs are entering the workforce with expanded skill sets and aspirations about their role(s) as creative individuals.
An example dialogue, this one between Valerie Casy and Barry M. Katz. Image © twopoints.net
The book’s distinctive framework, presented through a series of informal dialogues interposed with first-person essays, “day-in-the-life” entries and case studies, addresses the spectrum of challenges and opportunities for those building careers in design for social innovation, and for the organizations looking to support those careers. The unexpected pairings of perspectives in the dialogues push each other to uncover insights and ideas that are at times provocative, at times reflective, at times informative, but always engaging and accessible.
An example "day in the life" profile, this of Mari Nakano. Image © twopoints.net
image © Lucia Loiso
image © Lucia Loiso
image © Lucia Loiso
Book, poster, and postcard, each designed by twopoints.net. Printed by Agpograf.cat. Image © twopoints.net
Editors
Mariana Amatullo, Bryan Boyer, Liz Danzico, Andrew Shea, Jennifer May (Managing Editor)
Graphic Design
Select Awards
Design Observer and AIGA’s 50 Books
Design Observer and AIGA’s 50 Covers
Outstanding Achievement in Editorial from HOW International Design Award
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