Bringing nature into the city with Refugio
Gabriel Calvillo to speak at WDCD Mexico GNP 2023
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Your Summer Reading List by Liza Enebeis, Bebel Abreu & more
6 recent favourites on regeneration, feminism & the business of design
‘We see circularity as part of an evolutionary process’
Secrid co-founder René van Geer joins the Make it Circular Challenge jury
Time and nature take the spotlight in 2022
Our top stories of the year, as picked by our readers and editors
Anticipating the future at Dutch Design Week 2022
6 things you don’t want to miss from this year’s programme
Bricks glazed with iron and steel
StoneCycling & Studio Mixtura bring out six new waste-based glazes
Two days of daring optimism at WDCDMX GNP 2021
Looking back at WDCD live in Mexico City
Prototyping creative solutions to waste and consumerism
This 2-3 October, join us in a two-day online workshop redesigning waste with Adobe
3 new magazines pushing the boundaries of design
Our top picks of recent releases by Next Nature, Wallpaper and Sound Advice
A Downing Street Disaster
Studio Birthplace & Greenpeace release animated film about UK's plastic exports
Wekesa Zablon on his hyper-local approach to circularity
No Waste Challenge in Nairobi: Tackling mobility, food and community
Protest Posters for the Global Climate Strike
This week's visual relief features artists Anisa Makhoul, Karabo Poppy & more
21 creatives offer up 21 words of inspiration
This week's visual relief is a series of punchy, typographic pick-me-ups
Powerful prints for Beirut
This week's visual relief celebrates the best of the Beirut Editions art sale
Do we dare imagine a city without waste?
An animated call to action featuring designer Bruce Mau
Marina Willer makes doodles out of migraines
This week's visual relief is bright, bold and functions as creative therapy
Visual Relief By Happy Data
This week's visual relief highlights the small but mighty numbers
Bread on Earth
Using bread’s potential as a social, political, economic, and ecological barometer
Creative attack on the US-Mexico border wall by architect duo
The Teeter Totter Wall demonstrates the delicate balances between the two nations