Rebel, rebel: The Backlash against BLAND

Rebel rebel The Backlash against BLAND

How has this monotony come about? The internet and social media have a lot to answer for. Perhaps you’re thinking about your summer wardrobe. A quick peek at Instagram will show you how everyone else is styling the latest trends to perfection. Those trends have filtered down from the catwalk so bewilderingly fast that you […]

Augmented Empathy Through Design Can Connect Profoundly

Clouds over Sidra by Within, a VR experience that tells the story of a 12-year-old girl living in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan

We are now able to engage empathy through design, allowing us to literally walk a mile in someone else’s shoes. The design is being used as a tool to connect us profoundly, in a way that no other form of media can achieve. Both visually and through sensorial distortion, new devices are able to temporarily […]

Think Small – The Next Big Idea

Think Small – The Next Big

There’s nothing wrong with thinking big: every issue of Viewpoint unpacks the significance of an influential Big Idea. But while big ideas, big aspirations and big hopes for change will always resonate, we are starting to realize that big-scale enterprises are perhaps not the places where these can flourish. Globalisation is not a term that […]

Food and Time by Arabeschi di Latte for Disegno and Gaggenau, London, UK

Food and Time by Arabeschi di Latte for Disegno and Gaggenau, London, UK

Times and tastes change. In Food and Time, Francesca Sarti, co-founder of Italian food design collective Arabeschi di Latte, presents a series of five recipes that each involve the passage of time in the food preparation process. The project highlights the methods by which food transforms from one state to another. In her piece on […]

Crossing the Boundary by Adiff, New York, US (Durable Outerwear)

Crossing the Boundary by Adiff, New York, US (Durable Outerwear)

Functional fashion weaves in a humanitarian angle in a cleverly conceived collection of durable outerwear by Angela Luna, a recent graduate of Parsons School of Design. With her clothing label Adiff, an offshoot of her senior-year project, Luna has designed a range of unisex, one-size-fits-all convertible garments targeted at refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war. […]