The human body contains from 55% to 78% water. To function properly, the body requires between one and seven litres of water per day to avoid dehydration. Globally, one every five person doesn’t have access to clean drinking water. Two in five do not have adequate sanitation facilities and many countries ...

In 1994 Jeremy Moon received a T-shirt by a shepherd in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. The T-shirt was remarkably soft and do not hold body odour. "It didn't look too good, but it felt amazing. And I fell in love with the feeling of it," says Moon. The ...

  Design for the other 90%, the name is useful to explain the global situation: while the richest 10 percent of the world’s population enjoys the vast majority of consumer goods and services, 5.8 billion people  (or 90%)  struggle to gain access to the basic things they need: clean water, food, ...

According to Alice Rawsthorn, the design critic of the International Herald Tribune, the global edition of the New York Times, “Social Design” is on one of the most dynamic areas of contemporary design. It addresses the big social issues of our time such as ageing, poverty, health, democracy, learning, crime, ...

In many parts of India, especially in rural areas, the tradition of stubborn preference for the male child is still dominant. Little girls are considered the worst gift from destiny. They grow up in a different system, they stop going to school very early to work at home. They are often sold ...

One dat is left to vote for the greenest ideas. Visit thegreenawards.com to vote your favorites. There are four categories: Green Civic Leader, Green Entrepreneur, Green Local Organizer, and Green Parent. Remember you can vote once per category, per day until March 27. HURRY UP... Vote to make a big ...

Daniele Pario Perra is the author of the book "Low Cost Design", an analysis ranging from design to the sociology of the territory about the change in the use of objects and places through the actions of the inhabitants. The book is the result of an eight years research and more ...

    Japan needs Help… Designers and artists are inventing new creative ways to do their part. For example James White created a minimalist poster available for sale at Signalnoise Store. All profits will be donated to help relief efforts in Japan after following the 8.9 earthquake and Tsunami on March 11. .      

Recently the Mountain View giant launched, is not a surprise after all, the Google Art Project. It works on the same principle of street viewing, but you are walking in the galleries of different museums rather than in the streets of a city. The platform is innovative, but still not ...

On November 13, the Louvre Museum launched a fundraising campaign open to everybody: one million Euros was the missing sum to complete the budget needed to purchase “The Three Graces” (1531) by the German artist Lucas Cranach. The deadline was January 31st 2011, and only three quarters of the funds ...