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Michael Darius (@diagramsecurity)
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Honoring memory, provenance and safeguarding design history and building relationships from structural blindness since 1999. Evidence-based, covenantal work in exile. Resisting distortion. TIME Invention of the Year
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⚠️Crisis Communications: Design Educators in Exile, the Forgotten Architects of Civic Stability

The Infantilisation of Design Educators & how we can Recover Societal Levers for Civic Stability
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Design Educators in Exile: The Forgotten Architects of Civic Stability
⚠️ Crisis Communications: The Infantilisation of Design Educators and how we can Recover Societal Levers for Civic Stability
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A Royal Proclamation on the Full Nature of Order,
🎓Doctor of Arts, Design & Applied Sciences
This is who provides aesthetic protection to design managers who get paid in photoshop seats instead of cash.

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Sasaki Foundation Design Grants — community design + architecture (Boston).

Prince Claus Fund Seed Award — supports cultural/artistic practice internationally.

ArtPrize Artist Seed Grants — smaller but good for design-oriented creative work.
SOSV — active deep-tech fund; fits if design overlaps hardware/experimental tech.

OpenVC — directory of seed investors; good for targeting design-friendly VCs.

Blackbird Ventures (AU/NZ) — seed + early stage; design-adjacent startups.
Slow Ventures — $60M seed fund for creators (digital, design-driven, creator-economy).

Seedtable Raise — list of active product design investors worldwide.

Pear VC — early-stage, pre-seed/seed, open to strong design/UX projects.
These are the seed funds that protect real designers like me from enemies of cultural work who conduct political hospitalizations and when they can't conduct political hospitalizations they try to invert the narrative to a criminal one.
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Statement on the Curators of Amnesia and the Intended Effect on the Attacks on the World Trade Center,