Unite for Sight: Educating Children to Care for Their Eyesight

We have been working with Jennifer Staple, President and CEO of Unite for Sight, to develop a series of educational animations to teach children about how to take care of their eyesight. The result is twelve illustrated animations on subjects such as diabetes, nutrition and trachoma which will soon be posted on Unite for Sight’s website.
    Unite For Sight is a non-profit organization that empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness. More than 4,000 volunteers work in ninety chapters established at universities, medical schools, corporations, high schools, and in communities throughout the world. Additionally, Volunteer Teams are sent to 25 countries to provide eye care and eye health education programs to medically under served communities.

go to www.sandrafriesen.com/ufs to view the animations

go to www.uniteforsight.org to find out more or to donate to this wonderful organization

If you would like to donate your eyeglasses, go to http://www.uniteforsight.org/donate_eyeglasses.php

Visite Design Montréal

If you are planning a trip to Montreal check out the Visite Design Montréal website, it is an excellent resource for places to visit such as cultural buildings and restaurants that are distinguished by their great design.

From the website:

Why Montréal Design Tour?
For several years now, Montréal has been undergoing extensive urban renewal: creation of design centres like the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Institute of Design Montréal; revitalization of a number of neighbourhoods such as the Quartier International and the Quartier du multimédia. Montréal Design Tour offers a variety of inner-city journeys for discovering Montréal assets that are testimony to its cultural, intellectual and economic vitality. Institutions, restaurants, specialty boutiques and public places chosen for their unique traits are exemplary achievements by our own designers - be they in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, industrial design, interior design or graphic design.

For more information, visit http://www.visitedesignmontreal.com

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

If you are finding your Friday afternoon a little slow check out Design Matters. Design Matters is “an opinionated and provocative internet talk radio show airing on the Voice America Radio Network. The show combines a stimulating point of view about graphic design, branding and cultural anthropology. In a business world dependent on change, design is one of the few differentiators left.”

Design Matters is a live weekly design forum on VoiceAmerica Business every Friday from 3–4pm Eastern Standard Time.

Debbie Millman has been in the design business for over 20 years. She is a board member of the New York Chapter of the AIGA and a mentor at the High School of Art & Design. She is also an author on the design blog Speak Up and a writer for Print Magazine.

Tune in to listen: www.business.voiceamerica.com