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This is Design Matters with Debbie Milman from Design Observer.com.

On this program, Debbie Milman talks with Dawn Hancock

about what it means to be a socially conscious designer and how she thrives off giving to others.

I'm not unique. Oh God, done. You might want to work on that.

It's the truth. I really believe like if you have the

passion and you have the drive and you really believe in doing the sort of stuff

you can do it too. Here's Debbie Millman. Don Hancock is a managing director of the Chicago design firm Fire Belli, which he founded in 1999.

Don is known for linking social consciousness with design and almost everything she does.

In 2006, Don founded the Fire Belly Foundation.

It's an umbrella organization for her community-based

projects which include an informative platform for giving to the needy as well as

programs that train and provide resources for a new generation of socially responsible

designers.

Earlier in 2013 came the launch of one of Fire Bellies biggest projects to date, the Chicago Bike Share

program, Divey, which Don helped name. Don Hancock, welcome to Design Matters.

Thank you, Debbie. You describe yourself as a social

entrepreneur whose favorite color is secretly pink. That's gotten me in trouble

and I'm just going to tell you that.

It's not actually just pink as an overall color.

It's magenta specifically.

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