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MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART

ARTS AND SCIENCES

STUDENTS
REIMAGINE HEALTH
RECORDS
FACULTY MEMBER
BLENDS ART
AND NATURE AT
SMITHSONIAN
ALUMNUS
TRANSLATES
SCIENCE INTO ART
AT HOPKINS

OFFICIAL INSTALLATION FOR

PRESIDENT SAMUEL HOI
EMMY AWARD WINNER PROMOTES
NICKELODEON BRAND
FACULTY MEMBER ALLEN MOORE
COLLABORATES WITH KEN BURNS

On Campus
Selfies: Over 50 Years of Raoul
Middlemans Self Portraits
HAND/MADE
MICA GRAD SHOW 2015

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

(clockwise from left) MICAs MFA in Graphic Design students winning project A Record for Life features concise, accessible graphics, and personal portraits; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations Records for Life
winners Nate Gulledge 15 (Graphic Design), Amanda Buck 15 (Graphic Design), and Sally Maier 15 (Graphic Design) developing prototypes for their project; and Islam Elsedoudi of the Boston office of IDEO leads
a MFA in Graphic Design weekend workshop in human-centered design.

Students Recognized by Gates Foundation for

Reimagining Childrens Health Records
MICA students gain real life experience , showcasing their skill set outside of the classroom in national competitions and
large-scale collaborative projects. Not only are they entering these distinguished competitions, but they are also leaving their mark
with innovative, impactful work.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded honorable mention to a
submission by Amanda Buck 15 (Graphic Design), Nate Gulledge 15
(Graphic Design), Sally Maier 15 (Graphic Design), and Chen Yu 15
(Graphic Design) in the Records for Life contest, a recent international
challenge to redesign global child health records.

Representatives from organizations including the Gates Foundation,
World Health Organization, and the United Nations Childrens Fund,
chose their design from 300 submissions by teams from 41 countries.
The submission came in second only to the grand prize winner, by a
professional design innovation firm in Chicago.

The students submission, A Record for Life, reimagined immunization
records in a portable, simplified form that allows for easy reproduction and
digitization, adding scalability and redundancy in the medical data system.

MICA gave us access not only to all of the tools we needed to
succeed, but also important contacts for advice along the way, Maier said.

The students met with a team of guest advisors, including J. Douglas
Storey and Manish Arora of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public

Health, Islam Elsedoudi of international design firm IDEO, and MICAs

Center for Social Design Co-Director and MA in Social Design faculty
member Lee Davis.

Together we brainstormed, prototyped, and created narratives to
gain a better understanding of the experiences that caregivers, health
workers, and government survey-takers have with current child health
records, Buck said.

To me, this achievement demonstrates that with vision, guts,
guidance, drive, and design excellence, a small MICA team can compete
on a global scale, delivering innovations that have the power to affect
change, said MICAs MFA in Graphic Design Director Jennifer Cole
Phillips, who engaged the project in her MFA Design Studio course.

While the students submission focused on India, it has the elements
to be functional on a global scale. Elements of our proposal may be piloted
in underserved regions and could be found to truly improve the difficult
work of reaching full vaccination in remote and impoverished areas. It was
exciting to be part of a design project that has the potential to save lives,
Maier said.

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