CO LAB: Collaborative Design Survey

The object of CO LAB: is to promote the ideals and methods of contemporary design collaboration by informing on cultural context, surveying some unexpected practitioners, and highlighting techniques and practices that apply to studio work and forward-thinking education initiatives. There will be three main sections with 10-20 short-burst chapters in each, befitting the collection/handbook format.

“The Big Problems require something from designers, namely that we give up our isolationist tendencies toward moments of personally gratifying genius and instead focus on team-based monster slaying, much like how it takes hoards of scientists and engineers working for Boeing to conquer modern flight."”

"A very unusual and wild illustrated book about diverse ways of creative collaborations. With a lot of cases and interviews"
- Page magazine Germany

Elizabeth Herrmann (Author)

Elizabeth Herrmann and Ryan Shelley are researchers, designers, writers and teachers. They lecture at Northeastern University in Boston and other universities across the US. They collaborate under the name ras+e. Design collaborative ras+e formed in the fires of the MICA Graphic Design MFA program [2011] and promptly declared dominion of the netherworld bordered by design, photography, printmaking, writing, music, video, and installation. After inventing a printmaking medium, drawing physical typefaces, and crafting theatrical comics, ras+e launched professionally with the business model, "Pay me to think." They now shoot their arrows across the country as artists, designers, writers, and faculty.

Ryan Shelley (Author)

Elizabeth Herrmann and Ryan Shelley are researchers, designers, writers and teachers. They lecture at University of South Florida St. Petersburg, and Bowling Green State University. They collaborate under the name ras+e.

Launching from the graduate Graphic Design MFA program at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland, ras+e is a collaborative interdisciplinary design studio handling client and personal projects. Photographers, type designers, installation guerrillas, arts promoters, printmakers, culture critics, writers, activists, and professors; they teach design while slinging lo-fi messaging across the United States.

The object of CO LAB: is to promote the ideals and methods of contemporary design collaboration by informing on cultural context, surveying some unexpected practitioners, and highlighting techniques and practices that apply to studio work and forward-thinking education initiatives. There will be three main sections with 10-20 short-burst chapters in each, befitting the collection/handbook format.

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