Spray me safe
Volvo Cars launch road safety initiative
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Mandarin and leather make you feel safer
Scent design can influence bus passengers’ experience of safety
Candies of glass to bring light and joy
Campana brothers present Candy Collection in Milan
The safest bike since 1884
Crispin Sinclair’s Babel Bike with safety cell protects cyclists against trucks and busses
’The most powerful social media is food’
Top chef Alex Atala speaks out in a meetup with surfer Rob Machado
‘Purpose of design is creation of a good society’
Design historian Victor Margolin calls upon designer to envision a new utopia
Ooho! that’s how a water blob is made
Edible water packaging is actually an easy thing to make at home
Friendly design to get New Yorkers on two wheels
Pentagram provides Bike New York with new identity that pairs inclusiveness with street culture
The future of food is bright
TrendxChange on Food Future leaves attendants with optimism
Symphony Seizure
Brian Foo translates epilepsy into music
‘You need to be hungry to build a business’
WDCD2015 speaker Cynthia Shanmugalingam is founder of kitchen incubator Kitchenette
Inglorious fruits and vegetables in star role
French supermarket chain Intermarché addresses food waste by selling ugly fruits and vegetables
The giggle that makes your Monday
IDEO team presents ideas to turn Mondays into Mon-yays
Happiness is a campaign called Frooti
Sagmeister & Walsh develop colourful, funny and sweet campaign for Indian fruit juice
In search of the universal principles of beauty
Professor of form theory Paul Hekkert is compiling a Unified Model of Aesthetics
Letter from Brazil: little thing, big difference
In a city grey of concrete a green garbage bag is most welcome
The Refugee Project visualizes refugee streams
Interactive map of refugee movements selected among London Design Museum’s Designs of the Year
Selling alcohol to reduce harmful drinking
Designers help social enterprise to attack alcoholism through a retail outlet for alcohol
‘Sound is the forgotton flavour sense’
Professor Charles Spence will talk at WDCD2015 about design of multisensory foods and products
Better Shelter: IKEA’s refugee housing solution
UNHCR orders 10.000 Better Shelters that were jointly developed with IKEA Foundation
Letter from Brazil: a culinary portrait
‘Alimentario’ in Museu da Cidade in São Paulo is a poetic story on Brazilian culinary culture
Cameron Sinclair back on WDCD stage
Architect SInclair to present his new Department of Small Works
Spaceship for sports in the favela
Venezuelan architect Alejandro Haiek (LAB.PRO.FAB.) uses unique bottom-up approach in his designs
Here’s what we will be talking about at WDCD
The themes of WDCD2015: Cultural consciousness, humanity, urban issues, and the senses