Posts in Studio De
New Project: Black HerStory Initiative with The Griot Museum & Monument Lab

The Griot Museum of Black History earns one of Monument Lab’s $100k Re:Generation project grants to support the launch of its “Black HerStory Initiative,” which seeks to honor Black women whose contributions span political, social, and cultural spheres of the city through oral histories and public mark-making.

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Pre-Order Art of Protest by De Nichols

Pre-Order Art of Protest ahead of its October 2021 publication release. Guided by activist, lecturer, and speaker De Nichols’s powerful narrative and stunningly illustrated by a collaboration of young artists, this volume also has plenty of tips and ideas for creating your own revolutionary designs. This is a fully comprehensive look at the art of protest.

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St. Louis Public Radio: "St. Louis Artists Use Billboards As Canvas For Messages That Call For Change"

De Nichols interviews with St. Louis Public Radio about two billboards she created in collaboration with The Luminary gallery and STL Made campaign. These works emphasize the role and importance of art as both a form of protest and public declaration of community power.

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Reimagining How We Interact—IxDD 2020 presented by IxDA & Adobe

De is an #AdobePartner with Adobe and IxDA for the 2020 World Interaction Design Day (#IxDD).

On September 29, communities across the globe will hold space on #IxDD to come together and activate the power of design to think critically about the themes of culture and sustainability.

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Roles of Design Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic

For the Harvard GSD Design Research Forum’s 2020 colloquium, I share thoughts on five roles that design researchers can serve as the world navigates the #covid19 pandemic. In this audio recording, I discuss how these roles can help generate data, expose bias, synthesize information, clarify truth, forecast new possibilities, and evaluate current processes and systems of power. I also identify a range of U.S. audiences and demographics for which each of these roles might elevate a deeper sense of personal agency due to histories of marginalization and targeted violence.

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De Nichols is a 2020 Monument Lab Transnational Fellow

Mallory Nezam, De Nichols, and Damon Davis are the artists and designers of MADAD, a collective from St. Louis, MO, selected for the 2020 corhort of Monument Lab’s Transnational Fellowship. MADAD works to reimagine how joy, justice, and interactivity improve public spaces and cultural experiences in St. Louis.

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Chouteau Greenway Architecture Magazine's Progressive Architecture Award

The Chouteau Greenway is one of six North American projects to earn Architecture Magazine’s 67th Annual Progressive Architecture Award. Each year, its panel of jurors select works within the built environment that “exemplify progress by using design to draw connections between individual users and the communities around them.”

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#IntheCity Fellowship & Exhibition with Harvard's Commonwealth Project

The Commonwealth Project at Harvard University is accepting applications from St. Louis-based visual artists interested in building a long-term collaborative arts initiative between undergraduate students and faculty at Harvard University.

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Sept 25: World Interaction Design Day

Join Adobe and designers across the globe for World Interaction Design Day (IxDD), a global celebration of interaction design’s ability to improve the human condition. On Tuesday, September 25, the community will come together through activities and events taking place around the globe that showcase the diverse ways interaction design impacts everyday life.

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Get the Most Out of IGTV with #StudioDe

A few weeks ago, my favorite platform (Instagram) launched Instagram TV (IGTV), and though I really like it so far (you can check out my channel here), it is quite different from how content creators like me are used to using video in our work.

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