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Future visions

Design News > Design Thinking / Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

The Festarch festival explores visions of a future city that prioristises civil engagement, shared spaces and an open society. >

3 Jun 11
Creative dinner party

Design News > Design Thinking

Skaftien is a community-based project promoting experimental ideas by assisting with micro grants. >

2 Jun 11
With instructions

Design News > Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration

The Information Blanket hopes to improve infant mortality rates by giving parents in underdeveloped areas vital health information. >

2 Jun 11
Blog: Day 2 of What Design Can Do Conference

Design News > Design Thinking

The last day of the What Design Can Do conference was a mix and match of a little bad with a whole lot of good. >

31 May 11
Actively sitting

Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking

At five metres tall, the Empty Chair by Maarten Baas is a symbol of the peaceful battle for human rights. >

30 May 11
Blog: Day 1 of What Design Can Do Conference

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration

Rohan Shivkumar, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares and Oliviero Toscani stood out on day one of the What Design Can Do Conference in Amsterdam. >

27 May 11
Big dreams on little cards

Design News > Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration

If you dream it, put it onto a business card and you’re one step closer to realising that dream. >

26 May 11
For the love of trees

Design News > Design Thinking

A new tracking system hopes to protect the lush forests and valuable trees of Liberia >

26 May 11
American is old hat

Q&A > Design Thinking

Chris Harrison profiles the African continent's youth market. >

25 May 11
Smog consumption

Design News > Design Thinking

Since buildings account for so much of energy use, wouldn’t it be nice if they could help clean the air? >

25 May 11
Product support

Design News > Product Design / Information Design / Design Thinking

The Cape Craft and Design Institute now has a Product Support Space with a range of new machinery. >

25 May 11
Second skin

Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking

Safe sex is made sexy with the Second Skin. Check out urban africa’s condom pouch. >

24 May 11
Over the rainbow

Design News > Craft / Design Thinking

Creations this colourful can't not make one smile. And what makes it even better is that it removes plastic pollution from beaches. >

24 May 11
Abilities of design

Design News > Design Thinking

The What Design Can Do conference in Amsterdam brings together creatives thinking about design as a mindset for addressing social issues. >

23 May 11
Diederick Schneemann at Milan2011

Video Interviews > Product Design / Craft / Design Thinking

Diederick Schneemann talks about the significance of well designed and crafted objects, working with the Unique-Eco initiative in Kenya. >

19 May 11
Campana Brothers at Milan2011

Video Interviews > Product Design / Design Thinking

For the Campana Brothers design is about creating and proposing dreams, like they did in ostrich leather with the Klein Karoo company. >

19 May 11
Cups of cocoa

Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking / Design Thinking

fuseproject's Talamanca Cocoa project raises awareness about the positive aspects of organic cocoa farming in Costa Rica. >

19 May 11
A material world

Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking / Design Thinking

The four young partners of Fibra Design Sustentável are rethinking our material world. Theirs is no small goal, nor easy task. >

15 May 11
20Q: Danielle Ehrlich

Q&A > Product Design / Design Thinking

LIV is Danielle Ehrlich's design company. She is passionate about design that is environmentally, culturally and socially sensitive. >

15 May 11
20Q: Katie Thompson

Q&A > Product Design / Design Thinking

Using discarded junk, each item of Katie Thompson's Recreate range of furniture, lighting and interiors is infused with character. >

15 May 11
20Q: Ian Kelynack

Q&A > Product Design / Design Thinking

Ian Kelynack of Isle of Trees made his Design Indaba Expo debut this year. His sustainable work won him the Most Creative Stand Award. >

15 May 11
Conviction en masse

Opinion > Design Thinking

Susie Hunt writes about China's emerging class of creative entrepreneurs who are leapfrogging the traditional agency model. >

15 May 11
Design evolution at Milan2011

Design News > Design Thinking / Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

Superfarm proposes a new way of cultivating and consuming food, looking to the urban environments of 2050. >

15 May 11
Trucker style

Design News > Product Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Design Thinking

Used tarpaulins from trucks have never been as stylish as in Freitag's Fake Snake Collection of limited edition handbags. >

13 May 11

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