If your business hasn't already embraced visual thinking, why not?

Visual thinking and drawing are both becoming increasingly important in today's business settings. A picture really can tell a thousand words. Visualization is a crucial part of the journey for companies seeking to boost enterprise agility, break down silos and increase employee and customer engagement. Visualizing thought processes can help break down complex problems. It empowers teams and staff to build on one another's ide...

Societies worldwide are increasingly interconnected through trade, migration, education, and digitization. This has resulted in a profound new complexity of cultural groups. Consequently, designers are confronted with the challenge of gaining a clear understanding of this cultural diversity. Culture is a complex phenomenon defined by an ongoing process of shifts in human interactions and experiences. In addition to the functional, technical, and economic requirements, it is primarily culture ...

Design for Sustainability Survival Guide concerns all the details on applying sustainability requirements in design. It is a critical and concise overview of the important facts from all imaginable angles. The book is written and illustrated to inform, support and inspire future designers.

The guide covers everything in sustainability: from personal reader experience to universal guiding principles, from energy use and the flow of materials to the role of time, consumption, use, circularity a...

What effect will the rising temperatures have on the production of common foods? What would happen if we put the invasive species on the menu? Are the tomatoes we can find in the supermarket advanced pieces of technology or still products of natural processes? And could a plant become a brand? Can we hack our brain’s performance with my lunch? What would be the perfect meal in a fast-food world? Can fast food be personalized to our taste? Or could food become medicine? Could we, literally, ...

Als er iets is wat Marianne absoluut niet wilde dan is het een boek over haar en mijn werk. Aangezien ik wat anders over dit soort zaken denk en het noodzakelijk vond om haar te gedenken is deze uitgave toch tot stand gekomen. – André Toet

‘Fuck design, let’s dance’ omvat het oeuvre van ontwerpers Marianne Vos en André Toet. Het is een overzicht van hun individuele werk, opdrachten die zij gezamenlijk deden en ontwerpen die zij maakten onder het door hun opgerichte ontwerpbureau Sam...

Het Nederlandse collectief We Make Carpets heeft een fascinatie voor eenvoudige gebruiksvoorwerpen. De afgelopen tien jaar hebben zij de wereld veroverd met het maken van site-specific installaties in een wonderlijk proces van herwaardering van deze producten. Duizenden objecten worden door dagenlange noeste arbeid, getoond in aantrekkelijk kleurrijke patronen en texturen. Door het nauwkeurig neerleggen, in een steeds weer andere richting of andere zijde, laat We Make Carpets de toeschouwer a...

How can technological development today help studio-based learning take place in virtual space? Can technologies transform and reform design education? Can online learning replace face-to-face tutorials across different disciplines within design education? And how should design educators adapt to the new direction this era is facing?

How has technology empowered us, and what has it taken away from us? What has it done to enhance our learning and teaching methodologies? How are teachers using ...