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Announcing the 2013 Design Ignites Change Student Fellowship Winners 31 Jul 2013 | 02:13 am
Designers from the United States interested in social impact are often eager to explore how they can reach people in developing countries. Problem solving across oceans can sometimes be problematic du...
Announcing the 2013 Design Ignites Change Idea Award Winners 8 Feb 2013 | 09:32 pm
Design Ignites Change celebrates the power of design to amplify quality of life with this announcement of the 2013 Design Ignites Change Idea Award winners. These awards recognize student designers th...
Fast Company and Catchafire Highlight Mark Randall 8 Feb 2013 | 04:45 am
Mark Randall, principal of Worldstudio, was just profiled in an article on Fast Company’s Co.Exist, highlighting his work on Design Ignites Change. This article is part of Catchafire and Co.Exist’s Ge...
Together+ Launches Crowd Funding Campaign 25 Jan 2013 | 12:54 am
Together+, a campaign to alleviate xenophobia in South Africa, will go to press with the project’s first round of materials in February, funded by a Sappi Ideas that Matter grant. Components of the mu...
Blank Plate gears up for Season 2 15 Nov 2012 | 03:37 am
Last month, 2011 Implementation Award winner Blank Plate was invited to participate in the “Communities of _____” exhibit at Parsons’ Aronson Galleries, which celebrated works at the intersection of d...
Design and Disaster After Sandy 4 Nov 2012 | 10:09 pm
The Worldstudio Foundation office is located in lower Manhattan and today is our first day back here after the devastating hurricane last week. We were a bit inconvenienced to be without power for man...
Design Ignites Change and Worldstudio in print 12 Oct 2012 | 09:46 pm
The Design Activist’s Handbook, a fantastic book on socially conscious graphic design, was recently released. Worldstudio is honored to be represented in its pages, but even if we weren’t, we would de...
SEED Publication seeking submissions 14 Sep 2012 | 11:07 pm
There is a fantastic opportunity for Design Ignites Change projects: the Social Economic Environmental Design® (SEED) Network has issued a request for projects for possible inclusion in the new SEED F...
Tribute to Bill Moggridge 10 Sep 2012 | 08:09 pm
Even if you have never heard the name Bill Moggridge, his designs have impacted your life in a profound way. He designed the first laptop and was a pioneering figure in interaction design—an invention...
A Better World by Design Conference 2012 5 Sep 2012 | 01:03 am
Each year, A Better World by Design brings a global community of innovators to Providence, Rhode Island to reach across disciplines and unite under a common goal: building a better world. Internationa...