Category: Projects

Ernest Beck|Projects

Climate Change Chocolate

While environmentalists debate the ethics and effectiveness of carbon offsets, designers work to make them appealing.

Bradford McKee|Projects

Once More with Feeling: A National Design Policy

Bradford McKee reviews the history of efforts to create a federal design policy.

Ernest Beck|Projects

Ripple Effect

IDEO launched Ripple Effect in India to help communities with the arduous process of transporting water.

Ernest Beck|Projects

Camel Mobile Clinic

Art Center's Design Matters program prototypes a system for transporting medicine on camel back to remote communities in Kenya.

Adam Eeuwens|Projects

One Word, Plastics

Dubbeltje: The Dutch ten-cent coinSince leaving my home country of The Netherlands for the United States in 1996, I have always kept a Dutch ten-cent coin in my wallet. It is fondly dubbed a dubbeltje and is no longer a valid …

William Drenttel|Projects

Announcing Project M at Winterhouse

We are pleased to announce that Project M at Winterhouse will take place August 15-30, 2009. Twelve select individuals will get to participate in a unique collaborative enterprise to create a single design project of lasting value in a …

Jessica Helfand|Projects

Land in Crisis: The Antelope Valley Story

Llano Del Rio Commune, Antelope Valley, California. Photography by Matt Jalbert."If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water."Loran Eisely, The Immense Journey, 1957Under California law, property owners have …

William Drenttel|Projects

Polling Place Photo Project on November 4, 2008

The New York Times, politics page, January 2008A little more than a week before the November 2006 U.S. midterm elections, Design Observer and AIGA launched an online initiative in citizen journalism — voters across the country were asked …

William Drenttel|Projects

Designersforobama.org?

Poster design by Nicholas Rock, 2008Would you like to own designersforobama.org? What would you do with it?Last February, in the heat of the primary campaign, Winterhouse got (very) excited about Barack Obama's candidacy, and we asked what …

William Drenttel|Projects

Polling Place Photo Project on Super Tuesday

The New York Times, politics page, January 2008Voting on Tuesday, February 5, in the U.S. presidential primaries? We hope you will contribute a photograph to the Polling Place Photo Project.Primaries or caucuses will be held for one or …