WORK 2025–now
  1. Library (under construction)
  2. IIREP (under construction)

ARCHIVE
2021–2024
  1. Kind Project
  2. Counter/Ex/Un/Edit
  3. Snap, Snap, Sizzle
  4. Hello Departures Awards
  5. I Exist in the Future
  6. Talk Series
  7. In Good Company


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Hello Departures Design Center is a space to collaboratively ignite, experience, and practice the inherent power of equity-centered design practices to promote equity and prosperity for all communities and our planet.

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1. Kind Project




The Kind Project uses design and public spaces to normalize inclusive conversations on menstruation and increase access to period products in the most dignifying ways.

With students, Aimsley McDaniel, Blaise Keasler, Erin Enmark, Haley Tucker, Jaret Sites, Lizzie Cleveland, Stacey Trucks, Melissa Loney, and Nick Hobbs, the UofA Director of Technology, Vincent Edwards, as well as the Fayetteville Public Library, we reimagined the cold coin-operated period products dispenser for a kinder, more resourceful, inclusive, and accessible dispenser for all menstruating folx. 

Photographs by Kari Bjorn
Hello Departures additionally provided more than a year of period products, including sustainable menstrual cups, long-lasting period underswear in inclusive sizes as well as organic tampons, liners, and pads. In addition to the Fayetteville Public Library, you can find these dispensers at the Medium. 

We created a Kind Kit with all the brand assets and guidelines to create your own Kind Project and tools wherever you are. Anyone can use the Kind Kit as is or as a starting point to generate new assets. Feel free to reach out to us to get yours. 

Click here to listen to a panel conversation on menstrual equity at the Fayetteville Public Library. 

This work was selected to be part of the international traveling Fight for Kindness 2022 campaign by TypeCampus in Paris, Milian, Valencia, Veliko Tarnovo, and Fitchburg, MA. It also won the AIGA 365 Year in Design Award, in the category Social Design.