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Looking back at the best of Design in Times of Corona

Our top stories of the year, as picked by our readers and editors

  • Design in times of corona
  • What Design Can Do
  • 24 Dec 2020

Viral Times: Broadcasting Untold Stories From the Slums

Chicoco Radio launches new media platform for artists & activists in Nigeria

  • Design in times of corona
  • Natasha Berting
  • 30 Oct 2020

Our top tips for Dutch Design Week 2020

7 must-see projects exploring closeness and COVID-19

  • Design in times of corona
  • Natasha Berting
  • 15 Oct 2020

Seventeen new toilets for Tokyo

In the wake of COVID-19, a push for more inclusive public facilities

  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Natasha Berting
  • 30 Sep 2020

Marina Willer makes doodles out of migraines

This week's visual relief is bright, bold and functions as creative therapy

  • Design in times of corona
  • Natasha Berting
  • 25 Sep 2020

Visual Relief by Edel Rodriguez

This week's visual relief is the bold & bracing work of graphic artist Edel Rodriguez

  • Design in times of corona
  • Natasha Berting
  • 19 Aug 2020

Style and sustainability for the new normal

Environmentally friendly masks with high impact on local economic activities

  • Design in times of corona
  • What Design Can Do
  • 17 Jul 2020

New spatial strategies for museums

Design studios release guidelines to help cultural spaces reopen safely

  • Design in times of corona
  • Natasha Berting
  • 15 Jul 2020

Visual Relief By Happy Data

This week's visual relief highlights the small but mighty numbers

  • Design in times of corona
  • Natasha Berting
  • 08 Jul 2020

Estudio Guto Requena turns heartbeats into digital art

Heartbits is a new app to share love with those you miss

  • Design in times of corona
  • Natasha Berting
  • 24 Jun 2020

Marcus Lyall invites you to Scream the House Down

A socially distanced art installation to ease your frustrations

  • Design in times of corona
  • Natasha Berting
  • 23 Jun 2020

How digital arts can solve the problem of socially distanced place-making

Exploring the role that digital arts can play for organisations based on live and tangible experiences

  • Design in times of corona
  • What Design Can Do
  • 10 Jun 2020

‘Designers of the People’ help small businesses to readjust

Creatives from 18 countries dedicate part of their time to voluntarily help local businesses

  • Design in times of corona
  • What Design Can Do
  • 04 Jun 2020

Shelterbags for South Africa’s homeless

New project to help people surviving COVID-19 on the streets

  • Design in times of corona
  • Natasha Berting
  • 27 May 2020

Stories from Latin American creatives, from Mexico to the world

  • Design in times of corona
  • What Design Can Do
  • 26 May 2020

Art through the screen

Online museum visits that make you see more

  • Design in times of corona
  • What Design Can Do
  • 25 May 2020

Designers for Designers

A digital coaching series for creatives impacted by COVID-19

  • Announcements
  • What Design Can Do
  • 21 May 2020

A Hand Signal for Help

Online campaign to support those experiencing violence in isolation

  • Design in times of corona
  • Natasha Berting
  • 20 May 2020

Eating Out – In – Apart: new ways to experience food

What could this social distance mitigation process mean for the way we cook, dine, and gather?

  • Design in times of corona
  • Shay Raviv
  • 13 May 2020

Can art help us navigate an infodemic?

Olafur Eliasson and Kumi Naidoo on designing trust in the media

  • Art
  • Natasha Berting
  • 12 May 2020

Every empty street is a crowd against the virus

Artists use stencils and chalk to share positive, publicly useful messages about social isolation on the streets of São Paulo.

  • Design in times of corona
  • What Design Can Do
  • 10 May 2020

Innovative handwashing stations pop up across Africa

Creative ideas include solar-powered sinks and hands-free taps

  • Design in times of corona
  • Natasha Berting
  • 07 May 2020

Quarantine Sounds by Erik Kessels, Anthony Burrill & more

Creatives release albums of cityscapes, birdsong and airplane noise

  • Design in times of corona
  • Natasha Berting
  • 06 May 2020

SafeHandFish repurposes soy sauce bottles as hand sanitising gel containers

In response to the UN’s call for creative ideas to limit coronavirus, Japan now serves sanitizer in fish-shaped soy bottles

  • Design in times of corona
  • What Design Can Do
  • 05 May 2020

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