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Education
Project: Redesign the Report Card
We challenge you to design a visually appealing report card that informs, inspires, and gives context to student achievement.
Design
WorldWide Carpets: Interior Design Meets Google Earth
German designer David Hanauer creates dizzying carpets from aerial Google Earth images.
Lifestyle
Photos: The 10 Greatest Scanwiches Ever Scanned
Cross-sections of 10 delicious sandwiches from Scanwiches founder Jon Chonko
Design
Project: Create Original Art Worthy of Your Walls
Pick up a paintbrush! You don't have to shop at Ikea for your home art. For this project, make a piece of art yourself to hang in your home.
Business
Method Founders: To Win, Integrate Design And Business
Method's co-founders talk about combining design sense and business principles in this excerpt from their new book, The Method Method.
Design
Russian Firm Introduces a Mini-Hotel for Weary Air Travelers
Say goodbye to sleeping on airport floors, at least if you're flying into Moscow.
Culture
Intermission: How Charlie Brown Was Born
Charles Schulz draws Charlie Brown and explains how the beloved character is like all of us.
News
Winner: Design a Better-Looking Libya Leaflet
Click through to see the winner and the runners-up for our challenge to create a better pro-peace leaflet for Libya.
News
Project: Design a Better-Looking Libya Leaflet
We challenge you to create a functional, better-looking Libya leaflet using an actual NATO slogan: “One Libya, One People.”
Business
How HuffPo's Crowdsourcing Controversy Hurts Designers—and Ultimately Itself
Attempts to crowdsource design work hurt both designers and the companies looking for a free lunch.
Lifestyle
Watch Your Mouth: Eat Lightly and Carry a Big Fork
Bigger forks and heavier bowls might sound supersized, but they could actually cut down on portion sizes.
Cities
Interactive Map Compares "Affordable" Housing in NYC Neighborhoods
Envisioning Development pairs design with data to give New York City's tenants a lesson in affordable housing.
Business
Victory! Workers at Ikea's Lone U.S. Factory Vote to Unionize
Take that. Ikea's U.S. factory managers where behaving very un-Swedish. But they couldn't stop a union campaign without damaging the Ikea brand.
Culture
Which Up-and-Coming Artists Should We Keep an Eye On? The Community Answers
Lifestyle
Winners! Redesign the Food Label
Behold, four designs for a better food label. Who knows? You might actually read the label if they looked like this.
Technology
The TSA Now Has a More Private Body Scanner
A modest proposal to give us something we rarely get back in the digital age: our privacy.
Design
Can Designers Save the World Without Creating More Stuff?
How to redesign the plastic bag without using any materials at all… and other lessons about the power of design.
Environment
How to Host the Greenest Olympics Ever
In order to make such a gigantic event as sustainable as possible, there's only one answer: Don't keep moving it.
