Happiness is a campaign called Frooti
Sagmeister & Walsh develop colourful, funny and sweet campaign for Indian fruit juice
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In search of the universal principles of beauty
Professor of form theory Paul Hekkert is compiling a Unified Model of Aesthetics
Letter from Brazil: little thing, big difference
In a city grey of concrete a green garbage bag is most welcome
The Refugee Project visualizes refugee streams
Interactive map of refugee movements selected among London Design Museum’s Designs of the Year
Selling alcohol to reduce harmful drinking
Designers help social enterprise to attack alcoholism through a retail outlet for alcohol
‘Sound is the forgotton flavour sense’
Professor Charles Spence will talk at WDCD2015 about design of multisensory foods and products
Better Shelter: IKEA’s refugee housing solution
UNHCR orders 10.000 Better Shelters that were jointly developed with IKEA Foundation
Letter from Brazil: a culinary portrait
‘Alimentario’ in Museu da Cidade in São Paulo is a poetic story on Brazilian culinary culture
Cameron Sinclair back on WDCD stage
Architect SInclair to present his new Department of Small Works
Spaceship for sports in the favela
Venezuelan architect Alejandro Haiek (LAB.PRO.FAB.) uses unique bottom-up approach in his designs
Here’s what we will be talking about at WDCD
The themes of WDCD2015: Cultural consciousness, humanity, urban issues, and the senses
Letter from Brazil: meeting with Adélia Borges
Craft and design journalist Borges takes us to A Casa Museum for the Brazilian Object
When Hong Kong’s prosperity depended on design
Online exhibition celebrates the disappearing culture of neon signs
Césare Peeren turns waste into beauty
Superuse Studios’ head of design will present his ideas at WDCD2015
The packaging lasts as long as the product
Swedish design agency Tomorrow Machine develops short life sustainable packaging
Diébédo Francis Kéré is a man on a mission
African architect Kéré applies a hands-on approach to humanitarian projects in Burkina Faso
‘Graphic design doesn’t exist anymore’
Designers and educators discuss the new roles of designers in 'The new design landscape'
‘A thousand words can create six million images’
Graphic designer Alejandro Magallanes speaks at WDCD2015 about his activist posters
Can there be joy in Monday mornings?
IDEO seeks to bring some joy to the grimmest moment of the week
What language does smell speak?
A meeting with smell expert Sissel Tolaas in her laboratory in Berlin
Speak it out to the neighbourhood
Graphic designer gives neighbours a voice on transformation of their quarters
Shelter in a coffee cup
Comforable Exo shelter is easy and quickly installed after disaster
Culinary deviants bring all the senses into play
Bompas & Parr create immersive, flavour based experiences
The fungus eats plastic, man eats the fungus
Fungi Mutarium proposes a novel fungi food product grown on plastic waste