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Using inspiration from the school’s history, Collins has updated the Institute of Design's visual identity: bit.ly/3DVICp4
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Day 2 of Design for Planet will begin at 10am with keynote speaker Pam Smith from Newcastle City Council. We’ll be dipping in and out of the various talks today, so look out for updates and highlights on this thread!
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Studio Koto rebrands Mystudenthalls.com with a brighter, more extensive colour palette: bit.ly/3hdJFsR
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Elmwood's new brand assets for The Week create stories around the publication's recognisable red masthead: bit.ly/3teW2ro
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Geneva-based creative agency Retinaa SA has designed the new Swiss passport inspired by rural scenes: bit.ly/3zIutud
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"Used for a moment but lasts a lifetime": Buckley says the answer to eliminating plastic pollution is not recycling, it's rising to the new challenges of packaging design.
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The Ellen MacArthur Foundation's strategic design director Marc Buckley says designers should aim to treat "the root cause" of waste rather than the symptoms, adding that sometimes designers need to "widen the scope of what they’re designing to create a circular outcome".
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Here’s how culture provides a way for teams to stand out in a competitive design recruitment market: bit.ly/3DHhbPO #Sponsored
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We'll now take a short break from posting and resume at 2:30pm during the Marc Buckley's talk on how to apply circular design principles. Catch a few of the other Design for Planet talks in the meantime!
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For those who couldn't join the virtual talks due to them being at full capacity, the recordings will go live on the Design for Planet site today.
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In the main room, Designing for Regenerative Cultures author Daniel Christian Wahl discusses the negative impacts of having “myopic, carbon-focussed climate discussions” and questions: “how can we design to creates conditions conducive to life?”
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Electrical vehicle manufacturer Arrival’s VP of industrial design Angus Dick talks on why Arrival signed up to Design Declares, saying it offers “constructive and useable information” for designers.
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In virtual room 1, Studio Morrama founder Jo Barnard and founding member of Urge Collective Alexia Sommer explain the eight acts of the Design Declares manifesto and the toolkit of resources that designers can access.
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The first keynote speaker, 21-year old climate justice activist Daze Aghaji, talks about her journey into activism and highlights the difference between businesses that use partnerships with climate groups to greenwash, and those who really want to make a change.
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The festival can be streamed here: designcouncil.org.uk/our-mis…
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Design Council CEO Minnie Moll introduces the festival and says the aim is to instil a sense of “urgency and hope” around the issue of the climate crisis.
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