Take Five

A global call to design out Ebola drew readers' attention this week.

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OpenIDEO tells us about its partnership with USAID, which has issued a global call for innovative design tools to support and protect health-care workers on the frontlines of the virus. Read the article.

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Canadian industrial designer Ilana Ben-Ari’s puzzle game teaches the creative skills children won’t find in textbooks. Read the article.

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The "Make It New" exhibition captures the flavour of design and making in the Western Cape from its precolonial days to the present. Take a visually indulgent journey through the exhibition. 

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Amsterdam-based graphic designer Nikki Gonnissen tells us what led to her working with a new kind of client: the Dutch Socialist party. Watch the video interview

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As a child, Paul Priestman made dangerously fast go-karts from lawnmowers. Now he's one of the world's top transport designers. Read our Q&A with him.

Watch the Talk with Paul Priestman