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UNIFIED FIELD CORPORATION UNIFIED FIELD BANK™ Paulynn's Bio on Core Team page Paulynn Cue is CCO of Unified Field Corporation which is implementing the Unified Field Bank™ Model, an innovative system of community based commercial and investment banks to accelerate the development of sustainable, self-reliant local economies across the US. Unified Field Bank™ is using the unique financial capabilities of banking to activate projects and infrastructure in the 9 areas of sustainable local community development: • Organic Local Food Systems Paulynn is also Founder and Executive Director of the Unified Field Media™ Project, being created to support and cataylze the work of UFC by producing multi-faceted media projects to tell encouraging and activating stories of people and communities working together, taking critically important steps towards choosing and transforming their lives through a commitment to sustainability. Currently, in its startup phase, UFM is building teams, researching stories and vetting content across a wide spectrum of potential narrative subjects. Learn more at www.unifiedfieldbank.com/media.html Also, I participated in the Designers Accord Summit which convened 100 individuals from the world’s most distinguished academic and professional institutions, for two days of highly participatory discussion, planning, and action around the topic of design education and sustainability. October 2009
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5D | DESIGN IS CHANGE (DisC) 5D: The Future of Immersive Design Conference Paulynn is founder, curator and executive producer of 5D | Design is Change (DisC) a program of the 5D Conference which explores and nurtures entertainment and narrative cross-media's role and impact as social change and humanitarian designers in building a better world. DisC is creating conversations and questions about dynamic, mission-driven design, emerging technologies and narrative media. These conversations also investigate influences and responses, and perceived and real-world outcomes resulting from convergent media's accelerating shift towards a scenario-driven immersive world. 5D is producing a year long event series starting Fall 2009 called, "How Storytelling Can Change the World," scheduled at venues across the country including the MoMA in New York, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, bringing together designers and innovators with leading humanitarians and social change organizations, to create previously unimagined collaborations. Upcoming events include: 5D | Design is Change on Facebook 5D: The Future of Immersive Design Conference is a leading entertainment industry design, technology and innovation conference and is the platform for exploring the present and future of immersive design, and its impact on all aspects of the creative media space. |
COALITION FOR A SUSTAINABLE AFRICA Paulynn is a Co-Founder and Director of Strategic Alliances for CSAfrica, a coalition of US/LA based grassroots social profit organizations working on the ground in Africa to promote and implement sustainable development currently in 18 countries in Africa. CSAfrica program areas include: CSAfrica currently has active projects in Namibia, South Africa, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Liberia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Malawi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Notable Initiatives include:
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PAULYNN'S BIO I LOVE DESIGN and I love designing. I love how design can help convey a common language between people, within and across demographics, communities, countries, continents, and cultures. I am also excited by how design can trigger our senses, memories, emotions and thoughts, and distinguish us from or connect us to each other and our ideas. I love ideas! I love design as a tool for teaching, sharing, and helping each other to do better business and to create a better world. Design can visualize important issues in our lives and help create pathways to solutions. Through design we can give each other us access to happiness. Early Graphic Design and Architecture My first (repeat) gig as a graphic designer was to design and hand make signage, using poster board, paint, glue and glitter, for my dance recitals each year from 7th to 12th grade. I also designed programs and advertisements for school concerts and plays, and for the youth symphony in which I played the French Horn. I learned about precision and attention to detail on daily printing deadlines, while working for the local newspaper doing paste-ups and mechanicals. I also helped design and paint a mural that still hangs in the lobby of my high school. Prior to that, at the tender age of 10, I started designing and fabricating cardboard models of homes that I saw in our neighborhood (complete with swing doors and removable floors and roofs) using clear tape and the backs of notepads I found around the house. I decorated them with clippings from magazines and books. I also built neighborhoods, and skyscrapers on the moon with my 1,100 piece Lego set, which was my favorite toy ever. >> |
Design Design DesignIn 1998, after a 3+ year stint at Gensler, designing innovative at the time CAFM systems which are basically graphic databases for architecture/real estate for corporate facilities asset management, I began my freelance life working professionally as a creative/art director and graphic designer. I have created designs for logos and stationary, brochures, architectural exhibits, interactive presentations, websites, and even a 210 page full color retrospective monogram for a prolific fine art artist. I have worked for very large corporations, small companies and entrepreneurs in a wide variety of industries. I also did needs assessment, strategy, content development and design for print and interactive media. Doing & Being Humanitarian Since 2002, alongside my design practice, I have been privileged to work with several humanitarian/social-profit organizations including NextAid, CSAfrica, and Free the Slaves, for which I gave my design talents in exchange for invaluable experience to learn first hand about the crises of corruption, disease and poverty in the developing world, particularly in Africa. I learned how to engage and build a supportive community, raise awareness and generate action to make a difference by implementing sustainable (environmental, economic, and social) solutions for those in need. In late 2006, I traveled to South Africa to teach a computer skills workshop at NextAid's community center and children's residential village for AIDS orphans. All the children I met at the village or in the slums in Nairobi or in an AIDS torn village called Xai-Xai in Mozambique, were/are smart, loving, kind, generous, full of hope and promise. Integrating Design and Humanitarian Work In 2002, I produced an event for the grand opening of the new FK Anderson Company facility in downtown Los Angeles. FKA was one of my favorite graphic design clients and I inspired them to make the event a benefit for their next door neighbor Inner-City Arts (ICA). ICA is an amazing non-profit children's arts education school serving inner-city elementary school children who do not have arts as part of their public school programs. I am grateful for these experiences and will continue to integrate humanitarianism into my work and life. >>
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Graphic Databases and Interior Design In the '90s, I worked for worldclass architectural firms in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, including Gensler, Link Systems/CPG Architects, and Foresite Planning, to develop and design early models of computer aided facilities management systems and user interfaces (CAFM) for Fortune 100 and 500 companies including Sony, MTV Networks, Dreamworks, Bank of America, and the City of Los Angeles. And before that, I worked as an operations and project manager, interior designer and space planner in New York City doing a variety of projects including an Upper Eastside gut-renovation project for the Royal Thai Consulate and an interior architecture project for Rogers and Hammerstein. EducationMuch of my education comes from real world experience - on the job, on the road, in the kitchen, in meditation, and on the dance floor. I studied architecture and graphic design at Carnegie-Mellon University, advertising and communications at New York University, and commercial graphics at Parson's School of Design. I also traveled to Ashville, NC to learn how to build edible rooftop gardens for food and as insulation with Kleiwerks. (some of) MeI enjoy hiking, walking by the ocean, traveling, and being in conversation with people about what they do and what they be, about what inspires them, and their hopes and dreams. I am thankful for my mentors. I love my friends and family. I love to dance. I currently live Venice adjacent in Santa Monica, California and also Kapaau on the Big Island, Hawaii. Download my C.V. |