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What does Lewisham’s Borough of Culture win mean for its creative scene?

Design Week

“The overall brand had to feel like it came from the community, expressed by a collage of ‘home-made’ patterns, overlaid graphics, and spontaneous-feeling illustrations,” Paton adds. A draft plan takes the census to 2040. .” It spans poster campaigns, booklets, as well as digital platforms.

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Interface® Considers Design + Sustainability at Every Step

Design Milk

What began as working towards reducing the brand’s environmental impact in the early 90s has led to a bold sustainability goal that aims to become a carbon negative enterprise by 2040 with the mission of reversing global warming. And it all started with a question from a customer: What’s your company doing for the environment?

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A Vertical Campus Reshapes the Boston Skyline  

Azure Magazine

While in 2012, buildings were considered sustainable if they met LEED standards, Boston University was pursuing the ambitious goal to be carbon neutral by 2040. They settled on triple glazing with angled diagonal louvres designed to account for the site’s unique sun patterns. The DNA of the building was never lost.

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Communicating Climate Change With Temperature Textiles

Design Milk

The patterns of Temperature Textiles’ flat knit blankets are based on four emission scenario predictions modeled by IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). The patterns and graphics of each double knit blanket look to related data. Flat Knit Blanket, Emission. Flat Knit Blanket, Sea Level.

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The snake that eats its tail

UX Collective

Addictive design is inevitable when we choose to use Deceptive Patterns (known as Dark Patterns) in our design work. Deceptive Patterns. Yet designers should consciously challenge the idea that we design and treat attention in the UI layer alone. Dopamine Primer | Psychology Today Canada.” link] Accessed 26 Dec. Medium , 12 Aug.

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Salesforce & Shopify CEOs just declared war on human-only teams

UX Collective

From knowledge to pattern recognition : Storing information in your head is worthless when AI can access all human knowledge. The premium is now on recognizing novel patterns acrossdomains. Day 5: Observe top performers: Who do you know that is thriving with the help of AI, and what patterns do you notice (i.e.,