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Eleanor C. Safe
Ms. Safe works across business areas at Davis Brand Capital, applying her extensive experience in branding and visual strategy to provide design counsel for global clients and emerging category leaders. On Unbound Edition she explores culture and design trends, offering practical advice rooted in design thinking.
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Defining Design
I have a mouse pad on my desk that reads, "Design is a good idea." But for organizations trying to adopt a design-centric approach, what does that mean exactly? John Maeda, President of the Rhode Island School of Design, recently tweeted "Instead of saying we need to "elevate" art+design's role, we need to instead *reveal* art+design's role." Over the past month, at events with leading design thinkers, I've heard a lot of discussion about the definition and role of design. In the spirit of "revelation," here are some points of consensus I'm hearing from across design disciplines.
