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F5: ThinkLab’s Amanda Schneider on Her Favorite Statistics for Designers

Design Milk

By 2050, the interior design industry will have influence over approximately one-tenth (10%) of the world’s carbon emissions. One-tenth of global carbon emissions in some way, shape, or form will be influenced by decisions made in the interior design industry by the year 2050. Thats using it for good. Yes, you read that right.

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Can “visceral” graphic design bring the plastic crisis to life?

Design Week

Around 8bn metric tonnes of plastic has been created worldwide – with a projected figure of 34bn by 2050 – and much of the material is single-use. The plastic crisis is well-documented. Once it is used, it is often discarded, filling landfills and making its way into the ocean and water systems.

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Climate crisis: design industry rallies around its greatest challenge yet

Design Week

of pre-industrial levels and cutting emissions until they reach net zero by 2050. The festival aims to inspire and motivate designers, while showing them practical things they can do to improve outcomes for their clients and the planet. .” Talk and action are two different things of course. temperature rise.

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Is the Future of Toronto Designed in London?

Azure Magazine

For Karakusevic Carson, meanwhile, the redevelopment of social housing communities in downtown Toronto represents a North American expansion of the firm’s affordable housing portfolio, which exclusively serves public sector clients. In Hackney, I meet Paul Karakusevic, whose acclaimed firm works exclusively for public sector clients.

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The Future is Green: Embracing Sustainable Packaging

Inkbot Design

This figure is expected to rise, with plastics production projected to account for 20% of global oil consumption by 2050. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation reported that the production and incineration of plastics produce over 850 million metric tons of greenhouse gases annually.

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How to AI

UX Collective

In one client meeting with a CMO, after the “traditional work” was presented over 45 minutes, it was the turn of the digital team. “OK, Some AI experts predicted it would be around 2030, others said 2050, and few predicted never. I was a “digital” creative director back then at a creative agency. OK, digital.

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The 50 Global Brands That Changed The World

Inkbot Design

McKesson is a corporation that provides both pharmaceuticals and healthcare technology to clients and customers. Comcast believes it can position itself to get more significant market share dominance by buying companies that increase their capacity to service large clients on the fortune 1000 who have websites in multiple nations.