During a recent volunteer event with the Austin Parks and Recreation Department, Karl Nicholas followed his team into the woods and was immediately greeted by a committee of wasps. “I ended up getting stung by about 20 wasps,” Nicholas said. “I was kind of freaking out.” There in the woods, with no doctor in sight, he readied his phone, opened Medici, a healthcare messaging platform, and contacted his primary care physician.
Argodesign operates under one founding philosophy: think by making. This mindset — according to Mark Rolston, argodesign’s founder and chief creative officer — is there to remind designers how easy it is to get lost in their own ideas and instead shift their focus to the literal act of building something tangible.
