Recently, I’ve become passionate about the concept of Design for Longevity (D4L). D4L goes beyond discussing only design for financial planning or retirement. In fact, D4L […]
Last month, MIT AgeLab hosted the PLAN (Preparing for Longevity Advisory Network) forum in Cambridge, USA, inviting experts and leaders from finance, retail, and design globally […]
Doimo Cucine is an Italian brand producing kitchens. Their catalog is characterized by an infinite offer of color and material variations, as many kitchens’ catalogs are. […]
With these external changes in emerging technologies and socioeconomic shifts, finding adaptable and scalable solutions has become increasingly important. And how we find suitable solutions in […]
Every industrial designer should experience a disability of some sort. It sounds like a harsh way to learn. Yet if it came to be, many problems related to accessibility and ease of use would never come to exist. Most products, though, are designed by people who can move, see, experience objects and life with no issues whatsoever for people who are the same as them. Disability becomes central in briefs only when a team is designing very particular (often medical-related) categories of items. Which, of course, doesn’t make sense: there is statistical certainty that a majority of the population will […]
Over two weeks in Mexico City, SPACE10 will create a platform to gather diverse perspectives with talks, interactive experiences, and events surrounding the theme ‘Beyond Human-Centered […]
From 5 to 12 September 2021 BASE presents “We Will Design at Milan Design Week. BASE presents “We Will Design”: an experimental itinerary that ranges from […]
With a customer service that speaks 10 different languages, Viadurini has truly streamlined an international e-commerce platform exporting italian style to homes around the globe. “Distributing […]
We talk to Max Masure, ‘a white, mostly non-disabled, transgender non-binary queer person’. This is how Masure defines themselves, and this is the approach they are […]
Designing a product that’s of use to somebody is a designer’s purpose, whereas designing a product that’s of use to millions is a designer’s dream. One […]
If ADDI has to visualize their creative process, it will be a circle made of four sectors: Inspiration, Interaction, Ideation & Innovation. A couple of months […]
Korean studio SWNA was established by Sukwoo Lee to metaphorically solve the class conflict between 2D and 3D thinking. Embracing the third dimension all along the […]