WDCD Blog
A home for inspiring ideas and fresh conversations about the power of design. Keep scrolling to see our latest stories exploring themes like climate action, social justice and health & wellbeing.
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Art through the screen
Online museum visits that make you see more
Designers for Designers
A digital coaching series for creatives impacted by COVID-19
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.
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
Designers Against Coronavirus shows the pandemic through the eyes of creatives from 44 countries
A chat with Italian studio CaroselloLab, that collects COVID-19 related artwork
São Paulo chefs open their kitchens to communities in need
The most elementary form of aid: a plate of food
Initiatives for waste collectors
Protecting Brazil's most vulnerable with soap and a crowdfunded basic income
Five WDCD talks on architecture
Ideas from the archives that could help us rethink our lives on the other side
Visual Relief By Max Kisman
This weeks visual relief is the work of illustrator / designer / artist Max Kisman
Bompas & Parr forecasts post-coronavirus trends
A fresh perspective of the ‘new normal’ we’re heading for
Architecture’s response to the pandemic
The architectural trade is showing their resilience, improvisation skills and adaptability
Visual Relief by Dadara
This week's visual relief is brought to you by Dutch multidisciplinary artist Daniel Rozenberg
Give a Sheet? These designers do
Turning toilet paper into a canvas to raise money for WHO's Covid-19 fund.
Michael Johnson on coping in downturn
“All of a sudden, we're dealing with a new and thorny problem – irrelevance.”
Neighbours helping neighbours
From the community: a message from Brooklyn, New York
Global Call to creatives
The United Nations turns towards designers and creatives for fresh and innovative ideas in the fight against the corona pandemic
Make your own mask!
How designers improvise in times of shortage
CAN NATURE BE RESTORED?
Paola Antonelli explores how creativity can lead us to an “elegant ending”
Students present five perspectives on waste-free futures
Highlights from the HKU x WDCD minor programme Design for Social Change
Gender equality, a central theme of WDCD México GNP 2020
A critical time for feminist activism in Mexico
