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Pixan, summer 2010

pixan t-shirt

JULY 2010: Pixan, an organic farm-centric project in Noh-Bec, Quintana Roo. Last year Laila Simonovsky designed Pixan’s identity mark in collaboration with organic farmer/d4d partner Gualberto Cazanova with the support of the University of Florida University Scholars grant.

Moringa powder labels: Swaziland

April 2010. Prepared by the University of Florida Graphic Design BFA class of 2011 in Maria Rogal’s Technologies and Processes course, spring 2010 for Ed Lin/Impala Development Services.

Chichen Itza Master Plan for 2012

Plugging Yucatán into the Tourism Circuit: If Governor Ivonne Ortega Pacheco has her way, the State of Yucatan will become a series of interlocking circuits of activities for any tourist on any budget, according to a new master plan announced a few weeks ago.

Na Bolom Chair

na bolom chair
San Cristobal, Chiapas, México.
Download the template to build this chair made with no hardware and just two pieces of wood – true to the original at the Na Bolom Research Center. Make it. Make it better.

Design and the Elastic Mind

What we’re witnessing today is the emergence of a singular design creativity. Taking their cues from sources as varied as nanostructures, biological systems, topography, and cosmology, designers are introducing new areas of study and influence to their field and endowing their objects with new types of functional gradients.