International Design Council Magazine

International Design Council Magazine

International Design Council Magazine featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Venous Materials

Venous Materials project envisions a new way to design dynamic tangible interactions using fluidic Interfaces. It is a new type of interactive material that is inspired by veins systems in nature and the human body. When the user applies pressure or motion to the material, it dynamically displays geometric patterns and colors. The different patterns are displays that function as tangible sensors, that can animate dynamic graphics, create responsive objects for learning activities, and visualize body movement and balance.

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Slow Wool Collection

The Slow Wool Collection promotes mindfulness and conscious slowing down within the comfort of your own home, by offering sustainable and natural favorites. Only 100% natural sheep's wool from South Tyrolean shepherds is used, which is then crafted into high-quality woolen blankets and pillows by small local manufacturing partners. The young company's philosophy is based on slow living, which emphasizes fair conditions for the environment and producers, a traditional manufacturing process that returns to its roots, and a timeless, minimalist design.

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Funaging

FunAging is an educational service offering classes of smartphone apps to accompany and empower the elderly. FunAging disseminates the class information with the elderly via Line, a widely used social app in Taiwan among the elderly. However, many elderly have difficulties in registering classes via Line as its interface is not elderly-friendly. This project employs senior-centered service design thinking to enhance the class registration process. A set of systematic design diagnosis clarifies the UX issues, with insightful design deliverables, to make the service more fluent and effective.

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Service Design for College Enrollment

Their project through the redesign of the work model and enhances the ability to work across departments. Moreover, it could help students familiarize themselves with the campus through a variety of connections and services. For the department, the project results include the definition of value goals, work mode and interactive function design. Services for students include consulting services, admission reception services, guidance services of peers and admission brochures.

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Out Of Sight

The aim of this project is geared towards the local residents of Friars Island, in Brazil, paying attention to their needs and considering the bucolic environment and lack of public resources, in order to ensure basic services to the citizens. With the support of local political movements, it is proposed the insertion of forty two containers to attend two local necessities: a dance school, which used to operate in adjacent spaces to the neighboring church, and three emergency social housings, keeping in mind the need for a quick and accessible construction inserted on the location.

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Ecommuni Brochure

It is a sustainable service design provides better experience for visitors. In this project, visitors have changed from passive recipients of brochures to active selectors of exhibition contents. you can add your favorite exhibits to the personalized brochure through the simple NFC function and print it when leaving. The project improves the retention of the brochure, avoids the paper waste,and it provides authentic data to promote the virtuous cycle of the exhibition industry ecology.

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