Partnership For this project, after weeks of Ideation, I was put in touch with Visual Aids. Visual Aids is the largest organization for HIV positive artists. They worked to create the HIV Red ribbon that is synonymous with HIV awareness. At the beginning of this class, I was working as a technical designer for a startup jewelry company. I wasn’t
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fond of the job and would later end up quitting. While working there, I got the opportunity to meet the president of Visual Aids, Brice Brown who was doing work with the owners of the studio I was renting space from for the startup. They were aware of the work I was doing from passing conversations and seeing me stressed out. One day I was working on a project and the owner