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Past Issues

Changemakers
December 2022

Features

  • Ini Archibong: Making Space for Design Storytelling
  • Isabella and Natasha Tanjutco: Inspiring the Next Generation of Leaders
  • Eisuke Tachikawa: Embracing the Potential of Embodied Design
  • Shay Raviv: Bridging Societal Gaps through Design
  • Xavi Calvo: Designing Valencia’s Urban Future
See full issue

Planet Positive
September 2022

Features

  • 5 Planet Positive Design Solutions
  • Benchmarking Green Design in the Mediterranean
  • Designing Beyond Sustainability
  • Nature as the Ultimate Designer

Opinion

  • Planned Obsolescence and Collaborative Work for the Planet
  • What’s Wrong with Sustainable Design?

Success Stories

  • A Low-tech Barrier for River Plastic
  • Solar Power for the Future

Watch/Read this

  • Exploring Circular Design Approaches
  • Design for Planet: Another World is Possible
See full issue

Throwback Edition
July 2022

Features

  • Behind the Design: 5 iconic products that rocked the design world
  • The Legacy of the Valencian Fan

Opinion

  • What elevates certain designs to iconic status?
  • Legacy design is the mother of reinvention

Success Stories

  • 85 Years of Design Innovation
  • The Enduring Design Legacy of the Coca-Cola Bottle 

Watch/Read this

  • A brave new world of product design
  • What defines iconic design?
See full issue

Design for the unimagined
May 2022

Features

  • 5 questions with futurist Cecilia Tham
  • A 360-degree view of Valencia’s Future

Opinion

  • AI and the future of design: What will the designer of 2025 look like?
  • Design for the Future when the Future is Bleak

Watch/Read this

  • Liam Young: Planet City — a sci-fi vision of an astonishing regenerative future | TED
  • Design for the unimagined
See full issue

Setting Targets
March 2022

Features

  • World Design Capital Valencia 2022: The Bigger Picture
  • 10 designers share their goals for 2022

Opinion

  • The Power of Design Thinking for Goal Setting
  • The SDGs as a Guide for Better Design

Success Stories

  • IKEA targets zero plastic by 2028
  • Global Goals Jams

Watch/Read this

  • The case for purpose-driven design
  • Why the secret to success is setting the right goals
See full issue

Waste
December 2021

Features

  • Building a Zero Waste City
  • Not Designing for Design’s Sake

Opinion

  • Designing the next era of (zero) waste
  • Creating a circular economy for toys

Success Stories

  • Waste Avoidance | Circularity: Guiding the Future of Design | Nike
  • Using waste plastics and heritage boat building to tackle plastic pollution

Watch/Read this

  • Waste Age: What can design do?
  • Cut waste. Cut emissions. Fight climate change.
See full issue

Community
September 2021

Features

  • Are Chief Design Officers the key to better cities?
  • Interdesign 50th Anniversary
  • 10 impactful projects that are making a difference

Opinion

  • A City Is A Machine For Experiencing In. Dreaming Of A Chief Design Officer In Riga
  • What Is Community Design And How Can It Build Brave Spaces With Heart

Success Stories

  • ‘Park in a Truck’ is like Ikea but for building neighborhood parks
  • Public toilets in Shibuya like you’ve never seen

Watch/Read this

  • What if the poor were part of city planning? | Smruti Jukur Johari
  • We let kids design our city — here’s what happened | Mara Mintzer | TEDxMileHigh
See full issue

Design Education
August 2021

Features

  • The Road to Design Leadership
  • Is space the next frontier for design education?
  • Accelerating talent for our immersive future

Opinion

  • Expanding our disciplinary horizons by Justin Low
  • The Future of Design Education is… No Design Education
  • Tracing the impact of COVID-19 on design education

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  • Designing Design Education
  • Changing Design Education for the 21st Century
  • Where do companies go when they’re looking for innovative ideas? Back to school.
  • Why you deserve design education
See full issue

Diversity in Design
June 2021

Features

  • Queer Design Club: A Story of Community and Connection
  • Design for our Feared Future Self
  • Indigenizing Industrial Design

Opinion

  • Diversity and Design: How we can shape a more inclusive industry?
  • Industrial Design: Why Is It Still a Man’s World?

Success Stories

  • Where are the Black Designers?
  • Unilever designs world’s first deodorant for people with disabilities

Watch/Read this

  • “I’ve been the first and only African American to work with my clients,” says Stephen Burks | VDF
  • Unconference by Design + Diversity with Tim Hykes
  • Gendered Design and its Historical Wars
  • Black Designers on Race and Design: “Do you feel there is diversity in design?”
See full issue

Design For Activism
February 2021

Features

  • Uniting the world through sports
  • Defining Design Activism
  • Not Here to Inspire You: Taking Action with

Opinion

  • Design as Activism: to resist or to generate?
  • Design Activism

Success Stories

  • Your free ticket to Mind-Full mini film festival
  • Pink seesaws across US-Mexico border named Design of the Year 2020

Watch this

  • Design Is Future Film
  • Design’s Impact on Society | Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Design Intersections | Design + Impact + Activation: Activism + Impact
See full issue

Design For Sustainability
December 2020

Features

  • Design for a sustainable world
  • Responsible, but not hopeless: Design education centered around sustainability
  • “Of All Time”: The lifecycle of OAT Shoes – Europe’s first biodegradable shoe
  • Sustainability calls everything into question

Opinion

  • Six Misunderstood Terms in Sustainable Design
  • The Cloud Isn’t Inherently More Sustainable: Manage The Environmental Impact Of Being Virtual

Success Stories

  • Ikea to buy back used furniture in recycling push
  • “Operational progress is what moves the needle” towards zero-carbon design says Nike’s head of sustainability
  • Airport Seating System BLINK: WINNER Sustainable Design Award category of Dezeen
  • Kerf Case: Sustainable Design

Watch this

  • The Sustainable City of the Future: Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Little Green Bags: True Business Sustainability
  • Apple’s promise to be carbon neutral by 2030 
See full issue

Design For Social Impact
October 2020

Features

  • Who Wants to be a B Corp?
  • Teaching a different kind of responsible design
  • Design: An Instrument of Inclusion or Exclusion?

Opinion

  • The last mile is a human mile
  • The Power of Designing for Social Impact
  • Social-Impact Efforts That Create Real Value
  • Lessons In Design And Scale For Social Impact Organizations

Resources

  • Making life better by design
  • How to Design for social impact
  • Design thinking for social innovation
  • Design and Social Impact
See full issue

Design And The Circular Economy
July 2020

Features

  • Bringing the Circular Economy to Design Fairs
  • Adding New Value to Used Chopsticks

Opinion

  • Two Environmental Buzzwords, Same Meaning?

Success Stories

  • RePack is returnable delivery packaging designed to be reused 40 times
  • TerraCycle® is a social enterprise on a mission to eliminate the idea of waste
  • The city of Amsterdam is aiming towards 50% circularity by 2025 and 100% circular by 2050
  • HY William Chan shares how refugees can be empowered to transform their environments through the circular economy

Resources

  • Unschool offers multiple workshops and courses on the subject
  • The Circular Design Guide is a collaboration between the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and IDEO
See full issue

Design with smart materials
March 2020

Features

  • Tomorrow Machine: zero waste food packaging
  • Globe Hope: a second life for industrial materials

Success Stories

  • This fabric infused with live bacteria is designed to reduce body odours and improve immunity
  • BioScales – a biodegradable bioplastic that sucks carbon from the air
  • Who needs best-by labels when your package can tell you when food is going bad
  • Lettuce Eat is an award-winning series of biodegradable plates made from lettuce waste
  • Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute are developing a range of eco-friendly biodegradable plastics that require less energy to make
  • This fully bio-based BioFoam made of vegetable materials is the first CO2 neutral foam in the world
See full issue

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