Looking back at the best of Design in Times of Corona
Our top stories of the year, as picked by our readers and editors
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Viral Times: Broadcasting Untold Stories From the Slums
Chicoco Radio launches new media platform for artists & activists in Nigeria
Our top tips for Dutch Design Week 2020
7 must-see projects exploring closeness and COVID-19
Seventeen new toilets for Tokyo
In the wake of COVID-19, a push for more inclusive public facilities
Marina Willer makes doodles out of migraines
This week's visual relief is bright, bold and functions as creative therapy
Visual Relief by Edel Rodriguez
This week's visual relief is the bold & bracing work of graphic artist Edel Rodriguez
Style and sustainability for the new normal
Environmentally friendly masks with high impact on local economic activities
New spatial strategies for museums
Design studios release guidelines to help cultural spaces reopen safely
Visual Relief By Happy Data
This week's visual relief highlights the small but mighty numbers
Estudio Guto Requena turns heartbeats into digital art
Heartbits is a new app to connect with those you miss
Marcus Lyall invites you to Scream the House Down
A socially distanced art installation to ease your frustrations
How digital arts can solve the problem of socially distanced place-making
Exploring the role that digital arts can play for organisations based on live and tangible experiences
‘Designers of the People’ help small businesses to readjust
Creatives from 18 countries dedicate part of their time to voluntarily help local businesses
Shelterbags for South Africa’s homeless
New project to help people surviving COVID-19 on the streets
Art through the screen
Online museum visits that make you see more
Designers for Designers
A digital coaching series for creatives impacted by COVID-19
A Hand Signal for Help
Online campaign to support those experiencing violence in isolation
Eating Out – In – Apart: new ways to experience food
What could social distancing rules mean for the way we cook, dine, and gather?
Can art help us navigate an infodemic?
Olafur Eliasson and Kumi Naidoo on designing trust in the media
Every empty street is a crowd against the virus
Artists use stencils and chalk to share positive, publicly useful messages about social isolation on the streets of São Paulo.
Innovative handwashing stations pop up across Africa
Creative ideas include solar-powered sinks and hands-free taps
Quarantine Sounds by Erik Kessels, Anthony Burrill & more
Creatives release albums of cityscapes, birdsong and airplane noise
SafeHandFish repurposes soy sauce bottles as hand sanitising gel containers
In response to the UN’s call for creative ideas to limit coronavirus, Japan now serves sanitizer in fish-shaped soy bottles