One in twelve
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One in twelve

Twelve people, one lamp, and one left outside the light beam. A small illustration about the 657 million people living without electricity access. The progress is real, and so is the dark at the edge of it.

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Thousands terawatt-hours, in a bubble
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Thousands terawatt-hours, in a bubble

In 1979, Carol Weiss found that research rarely works the way we assume. Policymakers don't read a report and then apply it. Knowledge seeps in slowly and reshapes how problems are understood, which she called the enlightenment function. If influence is that diffuse, one flagship report isn't enough. I believe that we need a continuous, coherent ambiance of information, not an event but a practice.

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Cover design for Orlando's PhD thesis

Cover design for Orlando's PhD thesis

Orlando needed a cover for his PhD thesis on transport planning under uncertainty. We started with satellite images but then landed on something else: tiny humans and a giant policy tree, millions of simulations turned into a cover filled with eye candy. If you are into transport planning, may I suggest Orlando Román García's new publication at ETH Zürich?

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Culture of C-A-R-E
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Culture of C-A-R-E

Before summer properly started, I sat down and built an overview of the services and products I offer as a freelance designer, all in one place. If you, or someone you know, has a project that needs design thinking, this is what you need right now. Consider it an open double-door gate.

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