Two awards have highlighted the communal value of Tsai Design Studio’s Nested Bunk Beds. >

Electric Book Works’s first children’s book, uTshepo Mde: Tall Enough, has raked in the awards. >

Product developer Amanda Youngleson uses design to the development context of bad tools, poor skills, limited markets and deep poverty. >

When “The Soviet Union Forever” was replaced with “Always Coca-Cola”, Czech designer Maxim Velcovsky turned to design as social critique. >

“Designers cannot get closer to people than to make a design that becomes part of the body,” says Dutch food designer Marije Vogelzang. >

Even superficial changes to the production, material, care methods and end-of-life scenario of fashion do have environmental benefit. >

The case for designers to tackle the challenges of environmentalism, posed by Valerie Casey of frog design. >

To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumours of the electric car's death have been greatly exaggerated. Fiona Zerbst discovers the Tesla. >

Despite his collection of restored Alvar Aalto furniture classics, Tom Dixon has no pretensions of getting green right just yet. >

The visual icon of a bright idea, one of the most prevalent modern inventions, Thomas Edison’s lightbulb is long overdue for a makeover. >

The conference on Designing Interactive Systems – DIS 2008 – is the first main SIGCHI conference to be held in Africa. >