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The Nest Collective | Sunny Dolat

Sunny Dolat is a Kenyan fashion stylist, creative director and production designer. In 2012, he co-founded…

  • Sunny Dolat | The Nest Collective
  • Fashion
  • 2018

(Re)framing the Anthropocene | Joel Towers

Joel Towers is the Executive Dean of Parsons School of Design in New York. A few…

  • Joel Towers
  • Education
  • 2018

Design for change | Marina Willer

Pentagram partner Marina Willer recently ‘felt that the world has been going to such a bad…

  • Marina Willer | Pentagram
  • Design
  • 2018

From textile waste to art and why | Femke van Gemert

Femke van Gemert, designer of unique, handmade and sustainable art objects from upcycled textiles, taking the…

  • Femke van Gemert
  • Textile
  • 2018

Redesigning Google | Robert Wong

Robert Wong of Google Creative Lab at What Design Can Do 2018

  • Robert Wong
  • Design
  • 2018

Solving the plastic problem | Dave Hakkens

Hakkens focusses most of his attention to Precious Plastic, an open source manual to build machines…

  • Dave Hakkens
  • Design
  • 2018
Harry Pearce

The impossibility of indifference | Harry Pearce

Graphic designer, Pentagram partner & human rights activist Harry Pearce (UK) speaking at What Design Can…

  • Harry Pearce
  • Design
  • 2017
Bruce Mau

Protest, protect, or produce? | Bruce Mau

Design visionary and founder of Massive Change Network, Bruce Mau, (NL) speaking at What Design Can…

  • Bruce Mau
  • Design
  • 2017

Future meets past techniques | MACHINE

Machine is specialized in creating content for music related clients. With a distinctive graphic and conceptual identity, the…

  • Machine
  • Design
  • 2016
Lernert & Sander

A conversation between two designers and a medium | Lernert & Sander

Iconic videos and installations established the name of creative duo Lernert & Sander, the masters of thought-provoking…

  • Lernert & Sander
  • Design
  • 2016

How the creative army changes Africa | Ravi Naidoo

Naidoo founded Design Indaba and aims to make Africa a competitor on the world stage through…

  • Ravi Naidoo
  • Design
  • 2016

Time is ticking, and you? | Christophe Balaresque

Christophe Balaresque on the future of communication, digital or print? ‘This fight is over now. The future…

  • Christophe Balaresque
  • Design
  • 2016

Online (digital) storytelling

  • Floris Kaayk & Torre Florim
  • Design
  • 2016

Campana Brothers

  • Campana Brothers
  • Design
  • 2015

De Vorm – POD sessions: Stefan Sagmeister

‘Basically any innovative direction in design came through technology.’ Stefan Sagmeister is a New York-based Graphic…

  • Stefan Sagmeister
  • Design
  • 2015

De Vorm – POD sessions: Jeroen Junte

Just being expensive and beautiful, is not enough Jeroen Junte works as an independent architecture and…

  • Jeroen Junte
  • Design
  • 2015

creativity is variety

Hellicar & Lewis

  • Art
  • 2013

plumen is the world’s first designer energy light bulb

Nicolas Roope

  • Design
  • 2013

economy needs design

See the talk of David Kester (our Amsterdam 2018 moderator). As a design strategy consultant David Kester…

  • David Kester
  • Design
  • 2013

Using design to expose problems and projecting them to the future

Ben Landau

  • Design
  • 2013
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