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A padlock motif on fabric produced by Ghana Textiles Printing represents the lockdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

This Ghanaian company is producing fabric with motifs inspired by COVID-19

COVID-19

Look closely at the fabric produced in recent months by the brand Ghana Textiles Printing, and you’ll notice something unusual about the patterns: They’re padlocks, airplanes and keys.

MoMA video game display

The Museum of Modern Art embraces all aspects of digital culture and design

Arts
The font, Sweden Sans, was designed by Swedish agency Soderhavet in collaboration with Swedish font artist Stefan Hattenbach as part of a new national branding effort.

Sweden hopes to project a new image with its official font

Culture
The original Unikko pattern by Finnish design company Marimekko

That flower design on your shower curtain? It just turned 50

Arts, Culture & Media
Katerina Kamprani's rainboots

Here’s a designer who makes objects, and people, uncomfortable

Arts, Culture & Media
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Baltimore set to sell ads on fire trucks

Business, Economics and Jobs

Baltimore’s City Council recently voted to let companies place advertisements on fire trucks in an effort to cover infrastructure costs.

Mainstream tech opens doors for blind people

Environment

How conventional technologies like iPhones can help blind people find better, more affordable ways to level the playing field.

Closed-captioning law to change internet

Global Politics

A new communications law mandates closed-captioning for all video broadcast on television and then posted on the internet. The 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act will benefit the roughly 10% of all Americans that need captions due to a disability, and was signed into law on Friday, October 8th. Melanie Humphrey-Sonntag, president of the […]

Car Designers of the Future

Arts, Culture & Media

Detroit’s legacy has curbed design innovation for many years — can the next crop of designers rescue the U.S. auto industry.?

Design for the developing world

Business, Economics and Jobs

Catapult Design, the design initiative of Engineers without Borders USA, works with non-profits to help improve products for markets in the developing world.

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