Design Release

Design Release

Design Release featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

GOODBIKES

Goodbikes is a community driven initiative that transforms tourism into a force for social good in Namibia. By encouraging visitors in Swakopmund to purchase bicycles at preferential rates and donate them before departing, the project provides essential transportation for local residents. In collaboration with businesses and the municipality, each donated bike is repaired and redistributed, fostering greater mobility, supporting locals, and promoting sustainable, low carbon transport. A simple yet powerful idea, Goodbikes proves thoughtful design and collective action drive real impact.

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Dino Stride

Dino Stride is more than footwear; it represents a necessary step forward in orthotic-friendly shoes for children. Designed with empathy, Dino Stride prioritizes user needs and addresses the unique challenges faced every day by children with orthotics. By focusing on comfort, functionality, and style, these shoes support rehabilitation and boost self confidence, allowing children with orthotics the freedom they deserve. Dino Stride seeks to provide the orthotic friendly footwear market with a shoe that empowers the children who deserve it the most.

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Grow Together

Grow Together is a modular micro housing solution addressing homelessness in Seattle by integrating off grid shelters into residential backyards. Designed for social reintegration, it balances privacy and community engagement through adaptable spaces, urban farming, and sustainable systems. Utilizing passive design strategies, and renewable energy, it offers a scalable, self sufficient housing model that fosters dignity, social inclusion, and environmental responsibility.

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HilfePunkt

Migrating entails grappling with unfamiliar rules, especially without language knowledge. Hilfe Punkt serves as a guiding light, simplifying the path of newcomers by providing different services such as getting appointments and receiving informational updates. Tailored for diverse groups, it breaks language barriers, offering native language support for clear communication with authorities. Crucially, it tailors information based on users' locations. Our mission is swift adaptation, empowering seamless integration.

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Olive

Olive is a wiki site that gathers and shares practical knowledge during a disaster. The project was named Olive, derived from the letter O (an emblem of the Japanese national flag) + Live (to live on). Ideas were quickly gathered with help from worldwide, on how to build necessities to survive in affected areas without the supplies. It achieved over one million page views within three weeks. It is still expanding today as a database of disaster countermeasures using collective intelligence.

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Green Challenge 365

This product is an interactive calendar developed to protect forests. The target is people of all ages who are interested in the environment, and it consists of one calendar, a leaf-shaped seal, and a green ink pad. Users will have the opportunity to put a leaf-shaped stamp on the calendar once a day for every time they save on wood disposables. As the user actively participates in saving, the tree in the calendar grows richer and turns green. After one year, the tree in the calendar symbolically shows the fruits of conscience and thrift harvested by the participants during the year.

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