I recently appeared with my colleague Alessandra Orofino in the Fast Company article “An MFA Degree For Designers Who Want To Change The World” by Michael J. Coren. So you want to change the world? Cynics may send you off to Wall Street or a white-shoe law firm. Those with gumption will look for another [...]

Video of me giving a Pecha Kucha-style talk at a Purpose.com event in March 2011. I weave together a story that combines design philosophy and movement building with anecdotes and metaphors from capoeira, pop culture, and literary history. There was a camera glitch halfway through the talk, so please pardon the jump cut. Music by [...]

My Purpose colleague, Alessandra Orofino, and I will be teaching at SVA’s MFA program in Design for Social Innovation when the department opens in fall 2012. Social innovation is the application of new strategies and models to solving the challenges the world faces and to strengthening society. The MFA in Design for Social Innovation will [...]

Can’t make it to Austin for SXSW Interactive this weekend?  Come to Purpose.com’s alternative mini festival this Friday at 6:30 pm in downtown NYC.  FREE registration here: http://sxswnyc.eventbrite.com/ If you are interested in giving a 5-7 minute Ignite/Pecha Kucha-style presentation about your artistic, activist, interactive, or just awesome work, email me at leesean [at] purpose [...]

Here are my submissions for the JETAANY.org logo redesign contest. Designer’s Statement JETAANY “JET-AH-NEE” – a bold, dynamic, genki brand, embodying the best of Japan, JET, and NYC The Apple a symbol of New York City as well as the teaching profession Red like the rising sun in the Japanese hinomaru flag and the indelible [...]