‘Purpose of design is creation of a good society’
Design historian Victor Margolin calls upon designer to envision a new utopia
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Friendly design to get New Yorkers on two wheels
Pentagram provides Bike New York with new identity that pairs inclusiveness with street culture
‘You need to be hungry to build a business’
WDCD2015 speaker Cynthia Shanmugalingam is founder of kitchen incubator Kitchenette
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
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
Better Shelter: IKEA’s refugee housing solution
UNHCR orders 10.000 Better Shelters that were jointly developed with IKEA Foundation
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
Césare Peeren turns waste into beauty
Superuse Studios’ head of design will present his ideas at WDCD2015
The packaging lasts as long as the product
Swedish design agency Tomorrow Machine develops short life sustainable packaging
‘Graphic design doesn’t exist anymore’
Designers and educators discuss the new roles of designers in 'The new design landscape'
Can there be joy in Monday mornings?
IDEO seeks to bring some joy to the grimmest moment of the week
Shelter in a coffee cup
Comforable Exo shelter is easy and quickly installed after disaster
Culinary deviants bring all the senses into play
Bompas & Parr create immersive, flavour based experiences
‘Height can’t be the ultimate goal of a skyscraper’
Lord of Towers Ole Scheeren speaks at WDCD2015
70 design talents to watch
Wearables that encourage the elderly to have a healthier lifestyle
Finally Barcelona has got its design museum
new Design Museum glorifies Catalan and, more in general, Spanish decorative and applied arts
Follow the trash
Exhibition Metròpolis Barcelona in Design Museum Barcelona
Design fair OBJECT boards ‘SS Rotterdam‘
Work by Pleunie Buyink (legft) and Femke Woltering
Pedro Reyes receives US Medal for the Arts
Pedro Reyes at pUN delegate-convening event in Queens Museum
Tokyo is bigger than Australia
Cartogram by Paul Brading, 2005