DIFFERENTIATED DESIGN

KIVA KOOKIE COMMERCIAL PREPARATION

THE NDHS MAC ARTHUR GRANT PROPOSAL

In 2007 the Cooper-Hewitt launched the exhibition DESIGN FOR THE OTHER 90%. The show highlights industrial designers using their craft to address the basic challenges of survival in underserved populations. One example is the LIFESTRAW, which prevents disease by purifying drinking water.

Inspired by the exhibition, NDHS is designing a class around this problem solving ideology. By looking globally and then designing locally, students will solve pressing NYC issues.

Students will watch the film GARBAGE DREAMS. The film follows three teenage boys born into the trash-trade on the outskirts of Cairo. Students will then conduct research into the local equivalent of the issue. Designing products that solve a problem, the effort will form a larger campaign called NEW DESIGN for NEW YORK.

BUT HOW DOES IT BECOME A CAUSE?
By looking at awareness campaigns such as PRODUCT RED, students will see the social nature of entrepreneurship. To push the promotional side of design, students will evaluate products on the Discovery Channel’s PITCHMEN with the late Billy Mays.

GETTING IDEAS OUT IN THE WORLD
With their product and pitch in place, students will create infomercials to be aired on a MobileMe website through You-Tube. From the site students can recruit followers of their product on TWITTER and people can join the NEW DESIGN for NEW YORK cause on Facebook.

With a bona-fide fan base, students will mimic research and development prototype evaluation. SURVEY MONKEY and online testimonials using SKYPE will provide this data. Finally students will present their designs to INVENT NOW!

REAL PEOPLE, REAL PRODUCTS, REAL FUTURES
This class teaches engineering and entrepreneurship through industrial design. Students will make a field trip to see the Textile Engineering Program at Philadelphia University and Penn’s Weiss Tech House.

LENTINI FURNITURE DESIGN

How can we design furniture to benefit a specific community location? Here are some Year Three solutions! Internist Maynor Alas shows how demonstrable the furniture is.

MOHAMMAD's HAMMER

Year four students have been getting ready to design producst to solve NYC problems. As our last practice round in industrial design we took one of our KIVA recepients and redesigned a tool he uses every day. Here are the results!

BEN ROJAS FOLD'em FIGURES

The first year students are crafting creatures to film short animated vignettes. Using I-stopmotion the movies are our first attempt into stopmotion animation.

KIVA KOOKIE PROJECT

The kookies are out! Year four students came up with four company lines for the campaign!

INTERSESSION

Senior Yearbook Photos: Saturday, January 16, 2010

New Design Class of 2010 Parents & Seniors!

Please save the date! Saturday, January 16, 2010 will be our senior yearbook portrait day. Portrait sitting fees of $5 is due upon appointment. Students or families that need financial support should please email Sarah at sarah.baltazar@gmail.com.

Students should arrive promptly at their scheduled appointment time:

Appointment Schedule

9:00	Matt Albert	Mabel Almonte
9:08	Andreina Alvarez	Cristina Avila
9:16	Ashley Beckford	Amanda Bermudez
9:24	Shantel Blair	Saeed Booth
9:32	Raissa Brito	Taira Cangro
9:40	Mariah Carter	Eliana Castellano
9:48	Heari Cho	Lulu Cuenca
9:56	Robert Dixon	Amanda Fanelli
10:04	Ari Fisher	Christian Fonseca
10:12	Shearn Frankyn	Phalove Germain
10:20	Rashaad Gomez	An He
10:28	Kelly Hernandez	Domonique Jones
10:36	Shimay Kong	Tomas Krohn
10:44	Cyndia LaFontant	Alasia Laureano
10:52	Jake Liebman	Kelvin Martinez
11:00	Nicole Martinez	Ray Melendez
11:08	Hugo Melo	Natalie Mera
11:16	Aleksandra Mroz	Amber Muniz
11:24	Kelly Ngai	Ali N’Gom
11:32	Tiffany Nguyen	Zeke Nieves
11:40	Christie Orona	Julissa Ortiz
11:48	Justine Ortiz	Ryan Pacheco
11:56	Cynthia Paul	Carly Quinonez
12:04	Christian Ramirez	Dennis Ramos
12:12	Deasia Redfearn	Jennifer Reyes
12:20	Ashley Robinson	JadeRobinson
12:28	Marcos Rodriguez	Gabby Roman
12:36	Andres Rosario	Jonathan Rosario
12:44	Latoya Sandoval	Claribel Santiago
12:52	Shana Santiago	Aaron Scouten
1:00	Mario Sepulveda	Amara Serrano
1:08	Dilyon Stanislaus	Miguel Tejada
1:16	Leshawnda Thompson	Jeannine Troncoso
1:24	Jimmy Tucker	William Vaz
1:32	Tiffany Velez	Kaseem Walker
1:40	Troy Washington	Aneesa White
1:48	Robert White	Raheem Wiggins

Portraits will be taken by Thorton Studios. Students will be provided with Tuxedo, Cap & Gowns and Black shawls for photos. Special discounted package prices have been arranged for New Design seniors, but for more information about Thorton Studios please check out their website at www.thortonstudio.com

Class of 2010! Smile!

Google Mural

Goolge asked New Design if we could design and paint a mural for their New York City offices in the Chelsea Market. Design teacher Ben Rojas and 12th graders Mario, Dilyon and Dennis took on the task and completed this mural. The boys have been working with Ben for the last three years on their mural skills.