EJ passed along a great article from the New York Times that relates back to my post back on Blog Action Day about poverty. The article, which you can read HERE, addresses some of the design innovations that are helping those living in poverty to live better, like the water-toting Q-Drum pictured above, or the Lifestraw pictured below, which helps to kill bacteria in water as the user drinks.
These are simple, yet elegant design ideas but they illustrate that much of design, whether it be graphic, industrial or otherwise, is actually as much about problem solving as making something look pretty or cool.
Garret Ohm
http://www.orange-element.com/
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This is really interesting! Thanks for sharing EJ and Garret!
The exhibition Design for the Other 90% was organized by Cooper-Hewitt’s Cynthia Smith. She has been blogging about related issues here: http://blog.cooperhewitt.org
logo design ideas…
I found your post comments while searching Google. Very relevant especially as this is not an issue which a lot of peaople are conversant with….