Category Ex Patria

An Xiao Mina
They’re a colorful, familiar sight all across the Philippines. Converted from old US army vehicles and personally decorated by the drivers, jeepneys have been transformed into viable public transportation vehicles. They zip through dense traffic much more easily than a bus but they can still fit at least a dozen people…. Continue Reading →

Ed. note— This interview of Daniel Drennan ElAwar was conducted by Nabil Chehade at American University of Beirut, where Mr. Drennan has been teaching.

Series of four posters for the Return to Palestine March, May 15, 2011…. Continue Reading →

Daniel Drennan ElAwar
In April 2010 I found myself in Montreal for an academic conference. It was my first time there, and as I am wont to do in such a new place, I looked up used bookstores and otherwise roamed around the city…. Continue Reading →

Scott Gerald Shall
Introductions
We sat on the floor in the cramped offices of Espasio Cultural Creativo. The group was an eclectic mix: staff and volunteers from Espasio Cultural Creativo (or ECC, a Bolivian non-profit that runs arts education initiatives on the streets of La Paz and the chief reason we were in Bolivia),… Continue Reading →

David Gunn
Twenty years after the end of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia still bears the scars of this time. Some of its effects are obvious – related to the decimated infrastructure, the depopulation of cities and displacement of peoples…. Continue Reading →

Joyce Epolito
For us, it’s been all about relationship and listening. This year, a group of friends and I had the opportunity to inject design into the context in which we lived. It all started when we met several Burmese (Karen) refugee families in our neighborhood in Chicago (Rogers Park),… Continue Reading →

Editor’s Note: With this article we celebrate the third anniversary of the Design-Altruism-Project. Always intended as an outlet for the unheralded young who are doing good work for the unknown and forgotten, it is appropriate that we enter our fourth year with the following account by a Ugandan-born designer,… Continue Reading →

Raymond Prucher
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” – Desiderius Erasmus

Images taken at the Qalandia checkpoint inside the West Bank, well beyond the ‘Green Line’ that was set up by the 1949 Armistice…. Continue Reading →

Jonathon Russell
My experience in the United Arab Emirates started with a trip to visit my in-laws in Dubai for spring break in 2003. It was a fun trip with my wife and our 7-month old daughter Emma and included visits to 3 of the 7 emirates,… Continue Reading →

Jesse Miller

Outside “Casa Rosenda” Monterrey, Mexico
The Architectural Masters Thesis. High expectations and the culmination of one’s educational career are commonly used to describe this thing that looms as the end of graduate school approaches…. Continue Reading →

Arden Stern’s research in Zambia

Fred Quillin
It’s impossible for me to tell students to “stop playing around on the computer with Photoshop” and get back to their note taking. As I walked into the classroom recently, my class was busy quietly taking notes for the other professor and one student stood up to ask me a question about Photoshop…. Continue Reading →

Fred Quillin
So the director of the FDNC, Justin Silbaugh, is American and had some friends come in for a visit recently from San Fransisco and L.A. I had heard of how one of them works for Sony and does motion graphics for movies such as the Spiderman movies and I was excited to talk to whoever that guy was…. Continue Reading →

Fred Quillin
The most wonderful aspect about the medium of Printmaking is that, unlike most other fine art mediums, it’s a community act, for the most part. Painters own their own brushes and paint. Sculptors own their own clay. Digital artists own their own computer workstations…. Continue Reading →

Being the story of DWBs first student volunteer in Africa

Sydnee MacKay observes a donation to FDNC Uganda