Designers Without Borders
Designers
Mt. Pleasant, U.S.

Designers Without Borders
Design-Altruism-Project

Bio:

Designers Without Borders is the world's first non-profit 501(c)(3) organization expressly dedicated to disseminating design through development. A voluntary consortium of designers and design educators, DWB is dedicated to helping under-resourced institutions of the developing world meet their communication design needs.

Designers Without Borders was founded in December 2000 in Kampala, Uganda. Profiled in the April 2002 International issue of HOW Design, DWB has provided extensive assistance to both the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts at Makerere University, and to Mwereerwe Secondary School in Bombo, Uganda.

Designers Without Borders is able to assist select non-profit organizations with printed, web-based, and multimedia solutions to public relations needs. DWB has worked with both the National Committee of Women Living With AIDS in Uganda and the National Association of Womens Organizations of Uganda, and can provide your organization expert service from preliminary advice through finished product.

Plans are currently underway for partnerships with Kyamboga University Kampala, the Michaelangelo School of Art in Kisuvi,and St. Kalemba's Secondary School Mukono District during DWB's 2006 field work in Uganda.





David Stairs is the founding editor of the Design-Altruism-Project and a regular contributor to Design Issues. Since 1994 he has coordinated the graphic design program at Central Michigan University.  In 2001 he founded Designers Without Borders and has since been involved in development work in Africa.

"Roadside kiosks are message oases in Uganda"
David Stairs, “Okuwangala: The Persistent Vitality of the Vernacular,” Design Issues 18, no. 3 (July 1, 2002): 70-88. Also see: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/074793602320223316?prevSearch=authorsfield%3A%28Stairs%2CDavid%29