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Part of a chart asking who a young person might speak to if they are dealing with poor mental health, and what they might expect from them

“Our agency”

Posted on December 23, 2023 by David

When I’m not drawing comics, I work as a service designer helping organisations improve by providing them with research, mapping and visual explainers showing them what’s going on with their service. I find myself working a lot with legacy organisations (old places. could be businesses, or govt bureaucracies) that have been around for a long…

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COVID-19 visual explainer, made early in the pandemic - March 2020

Up your nose: Visual communication and COVID-19

Posted on July 13, 2020June 14, 2021 by David

A design colleague working with kids in mandatory quarantine asked for suggestions as to ways to gamify the process of giving children coronavirus nasal swab tests, preferably using paper (as it’s disposable). This was my first thought. COVID-19 swabs for kids: an interaction from David Blumenstein on Vimeo. If you’d like to use it with…

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COVID-19 visual explainer, March 26 2020

Posted on March 26, 2020March 26, 2020 by David

I created this to help explain the COVID-19 disease in my local area (Melbourne, Aus). It’s adapted from government health info (Department of Health, 16 Mar 2020). If you think it would help you, you’re welcome to use it; download A4, poster and socmed versions here. Medical knowledge and government policy on this disease changes…

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Designers make excuses for why their work failed, while, under the surface of the water, an iceberg read "We Got Told To Fuck Right Off"

Are you “design”?

Posted on February 12, 2020June 14, 2021 by David

How would you do useful design if you thought you were being seen as the “class antagonist” of the people you’re designing for?

That’s a question that comes up for me when I discuss design with normal people (to whom, it’s worth remembering, HCD and service design mean absolutely nothing).

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Drawing for Story in Canberra

Posted on August 18, 2018March 30, 2019 by David

I ran a very successful Drawing for Story workshop in Canberra, and spoke to ABC Radio that morning about it. Unlike most times I appear in the media, I had a good time and am not completely embarrassed at my poor performance (ask me about the time I was on the kids show Prank Patrol)….

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Service Design 2016

Posted on March 27, 2016March 31, 2019 by David

A colleague had to pike so I got to pop along to the second day of the Service Design conference run last week by UX Australia. Only caught the morning sessions (had to get back to work) but what I saw was very good. Here’s my sketchnotes.

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David Blumenstein

I’m a service designer, cartoonist and co-founder of Squishface Studio. I’ve done comics for The Guardian, Crikey and Australian MAD. Currently also deputy president of the Australian Cartoonists Association.

I usually write about things that shit me off, from bad bosses (The Bret Braddock Adventures) to pick-up artists (#takedown) to white supremacist trolls (The Internet’s Most Trolled Cartoonist) to predatory cults (Why Los Angeles is Scientology’s perfect city) and nasty tech bros (Octane Render: Cartoonists talk about A.I. art).

I’m working on graphic novels called Sciensatics (about cultists) and Free Money, Please (about wealth and passive income).

Sarah Howell

I regularly collaborate with my wife, Sarah Howell.

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