GIRLZ by Design

This past weekend, we printed the second edition of “The Care and Well Being of You" a wellness brochure distributed to 500 D.C. students during 's third annual Back to School Bash!

During our summer workshop series at , we partnered with Serve Your City, Ward 6's mutual aid to create a design material that supports a community-identified need.

The project asked GBD students to apply methods of design thinking through experiential learning. By following the design thinking steps: empathize, define, brainstorm, prototype and test, students grew their understanding of the iterative design process and the importance of human-centered design. Dylan, Hannah, Morris, Nya, Sam and Treasure digitally and hand drew all of the illustrations and worked together to select the typefaces, color scheme, and layout. We met with our incredible client Miranda from SYC to understand her vision and brainstorm design ideas. The text was written by past SYC intern Hanya Pillai. Thanks to Hanya, Miranda and the whole Serve Your City team for their partnership and dedicated work in the DC
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Week 2! We visited the National Gallery of Art and Renwick Gallery to explore exhibition design and heard from two incredible creative professionals working in animation and interior design. Thanks again and for joining us and sharing your portfolios/tips from the field! 💌
Students made small gifs using stop motion and digital flip books. They also experimented with to design an art exhibition of their own.

Join us this summer! We're hosting a digital design camp for high schoolers at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop from July 6th-15th at 2-6pm. Each day, students will attend a variety of introductory workshops on user experience and user interactive (UX/UI) design, animation, video game design, architecture, branding and logo design, and more! Students will have the opportunity to build their skills and get creative by experimenting with design softwares, collaborating on design thinking activities, learning about digital career paths, and crafting a final project that supports a community-identified need. Register here today 📲💻 https://reg.chaw.org/camp/1952