Helping Hand Guide System

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Created: 05/30/11
Last Edited: 07/19/11
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A system created as a design intervention to help impoverished individuals in Kansas City. This system includes stickers for business that want to be affiliated with this "organization". This system also includes booklets that provide tips , a feature of each booklet are tearaway pages at the end that are either forms or maps corresponding to each booklet.
  • Helping Hand Guide System
    Poverty Design Intervention
  • The Helping Hand is a hypotheticalsystem created by Kansas City Art Institute students Kelsey Anderson and KarenVillalba. The purpose of this design is to suggest a solution to thedisorganized state of information available to individuals of low income livingin Kansas City, Missouri. The first component if the system is the series ofsix color-coded booklets, each with their own topic and icon. Each booklet alsohas a helpful tear—away page, such as aform or map. The booklets are contained in the Helping Hand Guides box,complete with locking hand flaps to match the mission statement, also includedin the box with the books. To help users connect information in the guidebooklets with the resources available to them, window stickers were alsocreated with colors and icons corresponding to the booklets. Organizationsaffiliated with Helping Hand can place a sticker in their place of business toguide individuals to the help they need to get back on their feet.

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