I was fortunate to have been selected to represent Design Matters for the summer UNICEF design fellowship. This video is a description of my experience, process, and projects — which hopefully is useful for interested parties and subsequent fellows.
Dustin York designer in media, interaction, and research
Worked with the Wikimedia Foundation to standardize their globally-applied visual identity, and designed publications on behalf of the organization as well.
This MIT research project combines different real-time data streams of Singapore for innovative applications. Research involves exploring the roles that the data platform’s front-end should serve, as well as concepting some applications that the project enables.
In the spirit of creating a new way of reading, I devised a taxonomy that edited down a singular unscripted moment during a 2009 Obama speech, and then layered into that the resulting media response with this tactile and interactive construction.
Child Friendly Technology is a framework designed to help guide the proper use of technology in UNICEF-driven educational programs. This project was created to be a discursive and descriptive (rather than proscriptive) ICT for Education framework.