PIECE Studio was invited to participate in the BOLU INTERNATIONAL ART HALL, 2nd INTERNATIONAL POSTER DESIGN COMPETITION entitled, Water: New Dimond. Water is one of the most widely distributed substances to be found in the natural environment and constitutes the earth’s oceans, seas, lakes, rivers and underground water sources. The total amount of water on Earth […]

The Somali community was disenfranchised from the Minneapolis community and we saw an opportunity to engage in and with them

PIECE Studio collaborated with Brian Wiley to develop creative strategies of engaging with the Somali community in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2011 on an important and groundbreaking social justice project. The Somali community was disenfranchised from the Minneapolis community and we saw an opportunity to engage in and with them. We had to consider how to gain […]

The Somali community was disenfranchised from the Minneapolis community and we saw an opportunity to engage in and with them

PIECE Studio‘s response to the 2020 US Election, where the differences between both candidates cannot be so clear and the consequences are so serious. The United States are not united and we are witnessing a country that is being torn apart and is moving further to the right and embracing Fascist ideology and beliefs. Let […]

PIECE Studio was invited to take part in the United Nation‘s (UN) Design Challenge, 2020 that was developed through Women in Asia and the UN World Design Organization (WDO). The challenge focused on developing various design strategies that addressed generation equality as it relates to violence against women (VAW) in Asia and the Pacific.

PIECE STUDIO was invited by the AIGA Design Educators Committee to participate in the Shift Virtual Summit 2020. Bernard J Canniffe participate in the panel topic that addressed Design Research and Tenure & Promotion in the Age of Social Distancing.  

PIECE Studio invited to participate in the AIGA Design Educators Community SHIFT Symposium 2020. Bernard J Canniffe will be on the panel Design, Research and Tenure in The Age of Social Distancing. The panel is moderated by Liese Zahabi

At This Table is a PIECE Studio project is a physical table and also community engagement tool. At This Table provides a platform to bring different community members together in a physical space that fosters empathy and understanding. PIECE Studio will engage in, and with, disenfranchised communities and invite a diverse group of community members to share […]

PIECE Studio worked with graduate graphic design students from Iowa State University and partnered with FAREWAY at their corporate office in Boone, Iowa on a project that has become known as Midwest Quality Wholesale. Midwest Quality Wholesale‘s visual langue is derived from the colors of the Iowa natural and physical landscapes. The colors of the […]