08.09.10:
Meena Kadri
Tinkers, Hackers, Farmers, Crafters
Interview with Emeka Okafor, founder of Maker Faire Africa.
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07.22.10:
The Editors
Neville Brody Wants You
Call for submissions to the Anti Design Festival, September 18-26, London, England.
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07.21.10:
Vera Sacchetti
Virtue Rewarded: Design and Social Innovation Prizes
Descriptions of nine awards programs that regularly give out $100,000 for design and social innovation projects.
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06.30.10:
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
New Visions of Home
Report on new housing models for the elderly.
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06.09.10:
Julie Lasky
Protect Me from What I Want
Photo in memory of Tobias Wong.
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05.03.10:
Roger Martin
Design Thinking Comes to the U.S. Army
Design is almost overnight the centerpiece of military doctrine and the U.S. Army has gotten design thinking quite right. The struggle to get design thinking ensconced in Army doctrine, though, is no easy feat.
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04.19.10:
Jane Margolies
The Laugh Bug
Is Volkswagen's Fun Theory campaign anything more than a turbocharged marketing stunt?
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02.23.10:
Julie Lasky
Sweating the Small Stuff
Review of TED 2010 conference, "What the World Needs Now," Long Beach, California, February 9–13.
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01.14.10:
Jane Margolies
Rising Currents
Report on "Rising Currents," an exhibition of New York City design solutions to the flooding predicted by climate change experts, which will be on view at the Museum of Modern Art, March 24–August 9, 2010.
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01.05.10:
Rick Landesberg
The Bleating Edge
Rick Landesberg's photo of an innovative design in Haiti for keeping goats in their place.
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12.18.09:
Jay Parkinson
The Road to Wellville
Recommendations for designing a healthcare system around our nation's health needs — chronic care management, prevention and acute care treatment — not history, doctors and their profitability.
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11.20.09:
Aspen Editors
Aspen Design Summit: Initial Report
Initial report on the 2009 Aspen Design Summit, sponsored by AIGA and Winterhouse Institute.
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10.13.09:
Andy Chen
The Value of Empathy
Andy Chen responds to the debate between David Stairs and Valerie Casey on the recent surge of social design activity.
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10.06.09:
William Drenttel
Aspen Design Summit: Program Description
AIGA and Winterhouse Institute are joining forces to stage the Aspen Design Summit in November 2009.
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10.01.09: Moderated by Julie Lasky
The Kindness of Strangers
Debate between graphic designer David Stairs and Designers Accord founder Valerie Casey about designers' roles and limits as social activists.
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07.30.09:
Julie Lasky
When Worlds Collide
Report on TEDGlobal 2009, held July 21–24 in Oxford, England.
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