Environmental Indicators & Climate Change

Environmental Indicators & Climate Change

In an attempt to raise awareness of current climate challenges and provoke change, designers are visualizing the less obvious elements of our environment through a number of innovative products and artifacts. Sadiq Khan, mayor of London and vice chairman of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, is committed to creating the cleaner, greener, better and […]

The Inclusive Making Hub – Makerversity

The Inclusive Making Hub - Makerversity (2)

Makerversity is a tight-knit community of emerging maker businesses that behaves as a ‘shared creative and technical brain,’ says Ursula Davies, group MD. Makerversity, which has campuses in London and Amsterdam, provides members with a co-working space fully equipped with workshops, machines and tools. The driving force behind Makerversity, explains Davies, is to inspire young […]

Dave Hakkens – THE Conscientous CREATOR

Dave Hakkens - THE Conscientous CREATOR

Dutch product designer Dave Hakkens sees his work as a way to tackle some of the biggest problems that stem from our consumerist way of life. He believes designers are responsible for envisaging a different world: one where consumers don’t have to worry about the provenance of their purchases, the ingredients in their food, or […]

TechMinded Heritage Fashion Designers Unfolded

TechMinded Heritage Fashion Designers Unfolded

Belgian design studio Unfold, founded in 2002 by Claire Warnier and Dries Verbruggen, investigates the new territories created by the convergence of analog and digital processes. Warner and Verbruggen, both Design Academy Eindhoven graduates, explore the apparently contradictory relationship between heritage and technological innovation. ‘Craftsmen used to have a lot of control over their tools […]

The Makers Online Resource Fashion Journal

Makery online media platform

The Makery online media platform investigates the maker movement, its approach to technology, the values driving it, and the emerging opportunities brought by the mushrooming of independent labs dedicated to digital fabrication, biohacking and collaborative tinkering all over the world. ‘It all began with the DIY and open-source movement, but then evolved in to Doing […]

Augmented Reality Fashion Projects by Kailu Guan, New York, US

Augmented Reality Fashion Projects by Kailu Guan, New York, US

They say you can tell a lot about a person from their clothes. If Parsons School of Design graduate Kailu Guan has her way, new outfits will have even more fantastical stories to tell. Guan, one of the vanguard of designers using technology to engage with textiles, has created a collection of womenswear styles enhanced with augmented reality. Her […]

Alternate to Plastic Agar Plasticity by Amam, Tokyo, Japanese Technology

Alternate to Plastic Agar Plasticity by Amam, Tokyo, Japanese Technology

Imaginative design explorations continue to conjure up smart uses for seaweed. In Viewpoint Magazine 35, we highlighted the growing potential of algae as a sustainable building and design tool. Agar Plasticity is a new project conceived by Japanese design agency Amam; it explores the use of algae as an alternative to synthetic, environmentally toxic plastic […]