Elizabeth Herrmann teaches graphic design at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg and in her spare time teaches how to address complex social problems with her non-profit CO-LAB. In her talk at TEDxUSFSP she wants to promote the idea of "creative resistance" rather than passive complacency. Launching from the Graphic Design MFA program at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland, Elizabeth studied under Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips Photographer, type designer, installation guerrilla, arts promoter, printmaker, culture critic, writer, activist, and university faculty; she teaches design while slinging lo-fi messaging across the States. Some of her ongoing projects include Cards for Humanity (designing + letterpressing free calling cards for local artists), No Sirvice (a St. Pete–based underground arts collaborative that critiques the bankruptcy of American culture and provides a movement for non-commercial creative resistance), guerrilla screening hand-drawn animations projected from a circa 1987 Radio Flyer wagon, medium-format camera collecting and analog photographing broken culture, writing articles supporting evolutions in design education,creating monospaced typefaces for physical environments, and searching for a new punk design This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx