The List

The following is a list of people, projects, studios, movements and programs. Some of them have shaped the discipline of design, while others incorporate some element of design practice into their work. Some are practicing today (right now!) and others are historically significant. Some make straightforward graphic design, and others have connections to design that are subtle or confusing. Learn this list. This is your vocabulary.*

ArtPlace
Bruce Mau Design
IDEO
Open IDEO
IDEO.org
Human-centered design
Brute Labs
Project M
Hattery Labs
Pie Lab
Bike Lab
AIGA’s Design For Good initiative
Sappi Ideas That Matter grant
OccupyDesign.org
Citizen Research and Design
First Things First Manifesto
thinkdesignchange
Megan Deal
D:Hive
Prelinger Library
The Epicenter
Rural Studio
Samuel Mockbee
Architecture for Humanity
DesignBuildBLUFF
Lawrence Halprin
CLOG
BLDG BLOG
Project H
HERO Housing
Apple
Bamboo Bike Studio
Holstee
The Office of Playlab, Inc.
Under Consideration
Brand New
Design Observer
Core 77 
SwissMiss
FastCoDesign
Print Magazine
GOOD, Inc.
GOOD Corps
GOOD Ideas for Cities
CEOs for Cities
Thinking For A Living
Unconsumption
Public Studio
Project Projects
Next American City
Broken City Lab
Design Trust for Public Space
Project for Public Spaces
Shareable
Local Projects
Pepsi Refresh
Unurth Street Art
Watts House
Jane Jacobs
Think Public
MICA’s Social Design MFA
MICA’s Community Art
MFA MICA’s Center for Design Thinking
CCA’s MBA in Design Strategy
PNCA’s MFA in Collaborative Design
Stanford’s D School
D-Crit MFA at the School of Visual Arts
Food Forward
Urban Edibles
Edible Estates
Farm School (Portland)
Pie Ranch
GO Project
The Australian Center for Social Innovation
InWithFor
The High Line
Rails to Trails
Trekking Los Angeles
The Bold Italic
CicLAvia
Jonathan Harris
We Feel Fine
Cowbird
Walker Art Museum
Daniel Eatock
Miranda July
Keetra Dean Dixon
Ed Ruscha
Art Chantry
Jenny Holzer
Steve Powers
Barry McGee
Mike Mills
Margaret Kilgallen
Cody Hudson
Geoff McFetridge
Beautiful Losers (documentary film, book)
Keith Scharwath
Shepherd Fairey
Aaron Rose
AmeriCorps
VISTA Parklet Project (SF)
International Park(ing) Day
Kelsey Snook
Living With Our Time
The Dill Pickle Club
Gary Hustwit
Urbanized (documentary film)
Helvetica (documentary film)
Objectified (documentary film)
Tibor Kalman
WellDone
FuseCorps
projectOPEN
William Morris
Alvin Lustig
Ray and Charles Eames
Seymour Chwast
Nicholas Felton
Jennifer Daniel
Bloomburg Business Week
First Things First Manifesto (1964 and 2000)
Designer’s Accord
Wieden+Kennedy
Levi’s Workshops
Stefan Sagmeister
Tibor Kalman
Mikey Burton
Alissa Walker
Rob Walker
Andrew Blauvelt
Walker Art Center
Steven Heller
Jessica Helfand
Meredith Davis
Ellen Lupton
Jessica Hische
Frank Chimero
Maira Kalman

*This list is by no means complete. So don’t trip.