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Joshua Davis talks about the Heineken Future Bottle Design Challenge 2013: Remix our future. The second annual competition encourages designers to embrace the company's 140th anniversary as inspiration.

Khai Lieu Website designed by Frost Design. With project brief, project team and design challenge.

Article on Baker D. Chirico includes design brief, project need, design challenge and sustainability. Also lists project team.

"Learn how to create products that meet user need and are inclusive. Designers explain how they determine their market, consider values and needs, use ergonomic and anthropometric data and respond to challenges of demographic change and inclusive design." - includes downloadable worksheets and information relevant to the video under the 'resources' tab.

2 1/2 minute video of artist, designer, sculptor Tord Boontje London designer Tord Boontje explains how Midsummer light, the decorative paper lampshade he designed in 2004 for Artecnica, challenged the dominance of Minimalist design. Boontje's Midsummer light, which he designed for Los Angeles design company Artecnica in 2004, consists of two sheets of Tyvek - a tear-proof synthetic paper material - stamped with a delicate floral pattern. The two sheets are draped around a simple plastic cone to create a perforated lampshade that casts a soft, dappled light. "Midsummer Light is directly inspired by lying under a tree and seeing the sunlight going through the leaves," Boontje says in the movie, which Dezeen filmed at his studio in London. Boontje is one of a number of designers who has led a move away from Minimal design to return to more decorative themes over the last 20 years. He reveals that his interest in decoration started when his daughter was born in 2000. "I had a very strong desire to make my own home like a nest, like a very loving environment," he explains. "I wanted to make the home softer, warmer and more humane."