Would you believe the 2006 Design That Touches the Heart Show is now online? Believe. We’re pleased with this first ever offering of design (and even some art). We hope that it will encourage and inspire you to send in your own work that touches the heart. If we receive enough additional entries, we’ll add them to the 2006 show.

Thanks to all who participated. Enjoy.

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Do you ever have difficulty explaining to others, let alone your mother, what exactly it is that you do for a living, or what design actually is?

It seems that when I try to explain design, I get hung up somewhere between explaining the process, and giving a laundry list of outcomes (e.g., brochure, logo, web site, etc.).

The conversation usually goes like this:

“What is it that you do?”
“I’m a designer.”
“So what is it that you do?”
“I design logos and brochures and…”
“So what exactly do you do?”
“I create ads and other printed communications.”
“Oh, so you use computers.”
“Yeah… something like that.”

It’s always frustrating that as communication professionals, we have a difficult time explaining exactly what we do. Perhaps it’s not so much that we can’t explain it, but we need to define it.

This definition of design seems to have struck a chord with designers, software engineers, and others from around the world:

“Design consists of creating things for clients who may not know what they want, until they see what you’ve done, then they know exactly what they want, but it’s not what you did....... Keep reading