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We’re all a part of communities—large, small, near, far and differently-abled—that intersect and interact in various ways. In pursuit of a more harmonious society, it seems imperative to encourage empathy, connection, and understanding, so we examine 10 projects that build connections of all kinds: between individuals one-on-one, close to home and across the world; both in the abstract and tangibly.

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A lot has happened in the last 33 years, but one thing remains the same: The SEGD Global Design Awards program is still a key indicator of how the practice of experiential graphic design is evolving by annually setting the bar for excellence in the field.

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You know Xlab 2019 is about design + technology in creating an experience and place. You know you’ll hear about the latest digital tools and platforms being used to connect people and place. You know you’ll keep yourself on the leading (not following!) edge of your profession by taking part in the conversation. But you may not know these five surprising ways that you'll be inspired at Xlab 2019!

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Unified Field (New York), Evidence Design (Brooklyn) and the California Science Center (Los Angeles) collaborated with a few furry friends to create a new media-rich traveling exhibition called “Dogs! A Science Tail.”

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SEGD asks 20 questions of Lance Wyman, FSEGD, an experiential graphic design legend—a literal icon of icons—who is currently working on a massive transit system for Mexico City, where he did some of his most beloved work in the late 1960s.

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Well that went by fast!

And, it's has once again been a record-breaking year for SEGD, as the association has grown to over 2,300 members and SEGD.org page views have swelled to over three million.

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The exhibition was a joint project between Kristine Matthews’ Exhibition Design class at the University of Washington and her professional design studio, Studio Matthews (Seattle).

Curators Ellen Lupton and Andrea Lipps from the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (New York) enlisted the help of Studio Joseph to create an exhibition that goes beyond the visual to deliver a uniquely accessible sensorial feast.

What a year! It's has been a record-breaking one for SEGD, as the association has grown to over 2,000 members and SEGD.org page views have swelled to over two million.

The original “Numbers in Nature” exhibit opened in Autumn 2014 to acclaim for its entertaining, innovative and interactive approach to introducing mathematical concepts. In 2017, the design teams recreated the exhibit for life on the road.

Lorenc recently took his position in the canon of SEGD Fellows at the 2017 SEGD Conference Experience Miami, beside experiential graphic design trailblazers, including Massimo Vignelli, Lance Wyman, Wayne Hunt, Robert Venturi, Sue Gould, David Gibson, Donald Meeker and Michael Reed, among others.

The zoomorphic sculpture EmotiCannes was alive for five days at the Cannes Festival of Creativity (and will live a long life at MEC) celebrating innovation and demonstrating the groundbreaking data visualization capabilities of the interaction specialists at Jason Bruges Studio.

To paraphrase Mark Cuban: "You've got your Big Screen, you've got a cold one and a comfy couch.

For Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, art is an integral part of its mission to improve outcomes and create positive experiences for patients and their families. But CCHMC’s approach is unique and holistic. With the help of Kolar Design, the hospital engages with patients and the community to create art that promotes healing, supports the CCHMC brand and is fully integrated with interiors and architecture. Read Part 3 in our Art and Healing in Healthcare Environments series.

If the end is coming, might as well be at the movie, right?
The Hong Kong-based design duo of Ajax Kit Law and Virginia Lung--One Plus Partnership Ltd.--have made their name among the world's leading cinema designers. Clearly not content with the excitement on the big screen, they've devoted their work to continuing it off-screen in the theater environment itself.

2016 is your year to shine. Submissions are now being accepted for the 2016 SEGD Global Design Awards, the only international awards program focused solely on user experiences in the built environment. The deadline for submissions is Jan. 31, 2016, but it’s never too early to get started!

Bloomberg may be the new kid in town when it comes to San Francisco’s hot tech scene, but the global business and financial information and news provider is no start-up. That’s abundantly clear when you see its sophisticated new R&D offices in the South of Market (SoMA) neighborhood: no foosball tables, beer taps or Velcro walls here, thank you very much.

The American Conservatory Theater has been a fixture of San Francisco’s arts scene for nearly 50 years. When it decided to open a second venue in the city’s resurgent Central Market neighborhood, it chose a once-glamorous but long-derelict movie house for a new kind of community space. Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP helped A.C.T. open the curtain on a new era for the theater, the neighborhood, and the historic Strand.

Flavia Sparacino is an MIT Media Lab PhD, a prolific inventor, and founder and CEO of Sensing Places LLC, a creative technology agency based in Santa Monica. We had the chance to visit Sparacino and her staff recently to learn about what they’re doing in the digital user experience space and experience the energy of the team's hacking/making/start-up culture. Join Sparacino at Xlab 2015 and you can experience it too!

Intelligent interfaces are offering endless ways to provide connection, context, navigation, personalization, and curation in the physical environment. What are these new tools, and what can YOU do with them right now? At Xlab 2015, Nov. 5-6 in NYC, leading designers and technologists like Flavia Sparacino, Mike Clare, Neil Redding, and Darren David will show you!

Perhaps the tipping point was in 2004, when artist Jaume Plensa created the giant pixelated portraits of Chicagoans spouting water from Crown Fountain in Millennium Park. Today, new digital technologies and connected data are making cities more open, efficient, and engaging--and changing the way we act and interact in public spaces. We’ll cover the cityscape and digital technology at Xlab 2015—Nov. 5-6 in NYC; you'll want to be there!

KIPP NYC College Prep, a charter high school in the South Bronx, strives to create an environment of success, providing the academic knowledge, real-world skills, and character its students need to thrive in life. Just in time for the new school year, Pentagram created high-impact graphics that amp up the school’s “Knowledge is Power” message using puzzles, games, and riddles integrated into the learning environment.

By anyone’s standards, the work of Don Meeker—activist and information designer—has touched the lives of more people than any other in his era.

Mad Campus was a unique public art project at the University of Washington’s Seattle campus. Twelve emerging artists created temporary, site-specific works inspired by outdoor locations across the campus. Studio Matthews devised an identity and wayfinding system to visually connect the diverse installations and create an overall experience.

Creating experiences in the age of digital technology means using new tools and even new parts of your brain to create content. Xplorer Digital Camp West—in Seattle Aug. 6—will introduce you to the tools and techniques you’ll need to create next-gen experiences, from video, type, and image to data and code. Join us in Seattle! (Better hurry, seats are filling fast!)

As if you needed another reason to head for Seattle, there’s the famous Space Needle, hip since 1962 when it was built for the World’s Fair. Now there’s a brand new way to experience the amazing views. Skypad™, designed by Belle & Wissell, is an award-winning interactive experience that invites guests to browse photo archives, sign into a 3D guestbook, and make their own wonderful (but possibly vertigo-inducing) memories.

The co-working wave has hit San Diego, and it’s happening in typical surfer style. Make is a new 175,000-sq.-ft. workspace in a converted floral trade warehouse, just a short walk or bike ride to the beach. Rapt Studio worked with real estate developer Cruzan to envision a branded space where people will design and make things—and take their breaks on the waves.

Almost 100 years after Adolph “Adi” Dassler and his brother Rudy started making sports shoes in their mother’s washroom, the Adidas founder might be surprised to see his company's headquarters in Herzogenaurach, Germany. The latest project there is a new gym featuring the super-scaled typographic stylings of Büro Uebele Visuelle Kommunikation (Stuttgart).

LinkedIn’s new Chicago office makes work more connected and fun.

It’s not too broad a statement to make that LinkedIn has revolutionized the very nature of connection in our world. The professional networking start-up now counts 300 million registered members worldwide and employs 5,700 in 30 offices around the globe. When it created new offices for its Chicago-based sales team, “Our goal was to create a workspace that employees want to work in,” says Joel Wood, LinkedIn’s Senior Project Manager, Global Workplace.

Remember that Rubik's Cube you burned thousands of hours trying to figure out? Javier Lloret channeled the tantalizing, obsession-making tactile game into a building-size interactive puzzle.

Innovation studio Stimulant uses emerging technologies to transform static physical spaces into dynamic interactive environments.