UW DesignLab

Bring your Project to Life

Our consultants help students design smart media such as video essays, theory comix, scientific posters, and presentations. Working in smart media means designing knowledge with digital images, text, sound, and data to present ideas in different forms and reach diverse audiences.

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Make
Smart Media

We help you explore digital media’s conceptual and aesthetic side, from visualizing data to making multimedia arguments which elicit affect and action. DesignLab services integrate with the Writing Center, DoIT, and the Libraries, so we can assist you from research to final presentation.

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Presenting Student Projects

Each spring, DesignLab and the UW Libraries sponsor the Digital Salon exhibition of student media projects. Graduate and undergraduate students from across campus are encouraged to submit media projects from classes and extra-curricular activities.

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Democratizing Digitality

DesignLab’s mission is to help democratize digitality, just as public education democratized literacy in the 19th century. We understand digitality as the thoughtful use of information, media, and design skills needed to thrive in the contemporary world.

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