Intrepid letter enthusiasts gathered at Adobe headquarters in San Francisco for a special Fontbake event on April 9th, 2015. They joined teams and drew letters based on a thematic prompt: The neighborhoods of San Francisco.
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Our task is to design a photography exhibit for the SFMOMA. Our goals are to build a smart museum, get personal with our visitors, stage a conversation that can only happen at the SFMOMA, and ask as many questions as we can answer. Easy right?
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When you hear the term “Art Party” you automatically think of bright colors and paint brushes. When you hear that Adobe is sponsoring an art party, you know something innovative and fun is going to take place.
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The Adobe XD team is a global design organization responsible for the user experience of most of Adobe’s products. Once a year or so, we gather all of our designers, researchers, engineers, and other team members together in San Francisco for a week-long event where we share our work, build our relationships, and plan for the next year. In 2014 I began the 3-month journey to an amazing event which included a welcome bonfire on the beach, a hack-a-thon/charrette, show-and-tell, as well as a fundamentals workshop day and a team dinner. It is one of my crowning achievements while working with XD at Adobe.
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In May 2014, I led an event dubbed XD Charrette. It was hugely successful in generating new innovative ideas within the XD team. I went on to lead an additional 4 charrettes with XD. Other teams within Adobe loved the concept and event and picked it up to come up with solutions to their own challenges.
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Open Books is a (Chicago-based) nonprofit social venture that provides literacy experiences for thousands of readers each year through inspiring programs and creative capitalization of books.
XD worked with Open Books to help realize their dream of transforming everyday teens in Chicago into polished and published fantasy authors. Over the summer, I worked with 19 of my team's designers and 20 Publishing Academy youth to create awe--inspiring book covers for their fantasy novels, which Open Books subsequently published and revealed at a gala in early September.
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Project Falco is a collaboration between Adobe and GGRO to aid solving this problem. Project Falco uses the GSM Transmitter Research by displaying the collected GPS location data on a clean and clear user interface. The data is collected from GSM transmitters which are attached to a small number of the hawks GGRO bands every year. Once completed, this work will be invaluable should any population of hawks become endangered or threatened.
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“Canoes five through seven advance to the Northwest, we’ve spotted the gaggle of 12 cygnet swans.” The voice of authority came muffled through a radio in the bottom of our canoe. I glanced at the faded number 5 on the aluminum hull. Adrenaline coursed though my veins. My fellow paddler, and long time friend, Jeff and I threw out possible strategies and tactics for catching our own cygnet trumpeter swan. “Remember, we have to keep them out of the reeds, if they hit the shore we’ll lose them,” I said. “Ya, no problem” Jeff said as we glided through the glassy water.
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While interning at the International Crane Foundation, it was my responsibility to lead tours and educate visitors about cranes and the habitat on which they depend. The existing tours focused on general crane habitat, diet, morphology, and the history of the Whooping Crane including the species’ journey back from the brink of extinction and into recovery. After leading this tour several times, I saw an opportunity.
When discussing dwindling populations and extinction, many visitors were able to articulate that a small population is bad for a species. But when I tested their knowledge, and inquired as to why small populations are bad, not many could explain beyond offering 'that a hurricane could wipe out the whole population' which is valid, but only part of the story. In reality, a dwindling population put species at an exponential risk of extinction.
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