Design Museum Boston board member Michael DiTullo was recently quoted saying, “Design is a positive reaction to dissatisfaction.” Design has the power to make our everyday lives more comfortable, more efficient, more exciting, and more rewarding. Since 2009, Design Museum Boston has worked to promote the role of designers and give public voice to the design industry as a whole. Through exhibits, events, and partnerships, Design Museum Boston provides the creative economy with opportunities to collaborate, educate, and support our collective work.

We’re asking for your help so we can continue these important programs. A year-end donation in any amount will directly support exciting and essential new programs in 2012.
Make your tax-deductible donation today.

Every donation counts! This past year, we made some exciting strides thanks to the support of friends like you. In 2011, we:

• Opened our most recent exhibit, Retail: Retell, Recycle, Rethink at the Prudential in Boston’s Back Bay to rave reviews;
• Acquired low-cost office space at Space with a Soul in Boston’s Fort Point neighborhood;
• Built relationships with design firms, designers, and artists across New England
• Were accepted into Catchafire’s founding Boston class of nonprofits. Catchafire is a great organization that pairs nonprofits with professionals looking to use their skills for social good;
• and we received a $50,000 planning grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for the purpose of strengthening the connection between the art, design, and business communities in Boston’s Innovation District.

You’ve had a hand in making these important programs become reality. Please help us jumpstart our 2012 programs with a year-end donation. We can’t do it without you! Here are just a few ways your donation will have an impact in 2012:

• Your support will help fund our next major exhibit, Beyond the Logo, opening in Summer 2012. The new exhibit highlights successful New England brand design projects and explores the creative process behind what makes a brand memorable. We’re opening at a very exciting location.
• You’ll help us continue our immensely popular Unite events and Creative Mornings breakfast events, offering designers and non-designers alike an opportunity to connect, socialize, and inspire each other. We need your help to continue to make these events possible!
• We’ll be able to complete our collaboration with smallbean, an inspiring Boston-based nonprofit teaches technology skills around the world. Through a partnership with Samsonite, we’ve developed a prototype solar energy system for powering smallbean’s rural computer labs.

We wish you and your colleagues a happy and prosperous year. Thank you for making a contribution to Design Museum Boston part of your year-end giving.

To make your tax-deductible donation click here.
Thank you.

Sincerely,

- The Design Museum Boston Team

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