Teachbox: A Toy Design for Emergency Supply Boxes
Each year, millions of boxes are shipped to developing countries by organizations like UNICEF, where food and medical supplies are needed. Designers Milad Mohajeri and Ali Haji came up with a idea for the boxes to be used for toys, and not to be used for just kindling. Their simple design integrates printing designs with perforated edges, so that they [...]
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Food and You: An Animation About Our Food System
Oxfam International Youth Partnerships (OIYP) is a global network of young people, aged 18-25, known as Action Partners, who work with their communities to create positive, equitable and sustainable change. One issue that the group works on is about food and sustainability, and specifically getting the word out about our food system. It has been reported that the in the [...]
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Market Makeover – An Online toolkit for Making Healthy Changes in Corner Stores
Places that do not have much healthy food available, often called food deserts, are all over the US, in urban and rural areas. Sometimes they exist in places that ironically used to grow food, and are usually in low-income communities. In these locations, there is food to eat, but it’s not usually healthy food. Often there are few supermarkets, and [...]
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Save Food From The Refrigerator
Before the invention of the refrigerator, foods were stored in low-tech ways to store food. Refrigerators have been widely in use for less than 100 years, and have become the main way that most of us store our food. Many of the foods in the fridge could last as long and even taste better if they were not in the [...]
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SOUP: Mandy Barker’s Images of Ocean Plastic Debris
The “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” is a floating expanse of waste and debris in the Pacific Ocean that covers an area twice the size of the continental U.S. It is comprised of mostly plastic debris that is suspended in the sea. Designer and photographer Mandy Barker has created a series of images called SOUP which is made of plastic debris [...]
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