Design in times of Corona
Dear creative, dreamer, maker, supporter, fan, partner, critic and friend, I’m sending you this message from…
WHAT DESIGN CAN DO
IN TIMES OF CORONA
IN THESE TRYING TIMES WE BELIEVE MORE THAN EVER IN THE POWER OF DESIGN AND CREATIVITY
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THERE IS INFINITE CREATIVE POTENTIAL OUT THERE. PEOPLE ARE CREATIVE BY NATURE. WHEN THE SHIT HITS THE FAN, WE ADAPT AND RESPOND WITH NEWFOUND INVENTIVENESS
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THIS IS WHY WE HAVE DECIDED TO DEDICATE OUR PLATFORM TO THE HEARTWARMING INITIATIVES THAT ARE POPPING UP ALL OVER THE GLOBE
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WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO JOIN US!
PLEASE SHARE YOUR IDEAS and initiatives here:
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Give a Sheet? These designers do, literally.
You know things get weird when something like ‘How Much Toilet Paper?!’ (a calculator for how…
Visual Relief
Graphic collective The Daily Gorilla made a series of visual reliefs on the current pandemic.
New flat-pack recovery units for doctors and patients
Cameron Sinclair, the architect turned humanitarian designer and WDCD regular, unveiled the “world’s first standalone intensive…
Michael Johnson on coping in downturn
One of the many quotable lines from Michael Johnson’s What Design Can Do talk, back in…
SymptoTrack maps untested COVID-19 cases
Volunteers from three Dutch internet design and development agencies develop an open-source platform to track the…
Neighbours helping neighbours
From our community: a message from Brooklyn As the pandemic is sweeping through the world the…
Global Call to creatives
“We are in in an unprecedented situation and the normal rules no longer apply. We cannot…
Clear Skies
Not many words are needed here, the images, screen dumps from the website Flightradar24, tell their…
How 3D printing comes to the rescue
MGA, a German network of companies, institutions and research institutes that pushes 3D-printed applications for professional…
Join a design challenge
As designers we wonder, how can we make a positive contribution to the current pandemic crisis?…
Make your own mask!
The demand for face masks for medical workers is huge. Hospitals and governments are outbidding each…
Creativity and the coronavirus: What designers can do today
We live in uncertain times. In the last week alone, we’ve seen how individuals, businesses and…
CURA: OPEN SOURCE DESIGN FOR EMERGENCY COVID-19 HOSPITALS
In the epicentre of the Italian coronavirus outbreak, a group of designers, medical engineers and other…
Take the party online
Now that governments all over the world have announced a hold on public life or even…
COVID-19 put in historic perspective
What would you think if we were to say that COVID-19 so far is one of…
Visual Relief
Graphic collective The Daily Gorilla has started to produce a series of visual reliefs on the…
Watch the virus spread
Here’s how data visualization designers help us understand and react to the corona crisis. The Washington…
