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Planet Earth -- that fragile blue marble in space that we call home -- deserves better from all of us, I think we would agree. And for good reason. With such issues as energy, pollution, conservation and sustainability, and climate becoming rising worldwide concerns, it behooves everyone to do their part to make sure she thrives -- and survives. NASA astronaut Ron Garan said last year after returning from spending more than five months on the International Space Station situated 250 miles above Earth: "I looked down at this indescribably beautiful fragile oasis, this island that has been give...

There is a new KABK Research Group! From many compelling proposals submitted to an open call for the KABK Research Group 2021, the following tutor-researchers have been selected: from Fine Art, Vibeke Mascini; from Master Artistic Research, Jasper Coppes; from Graphic Design, Katrin Korfmann, Hannes Bernard and Louis Braddock Clarke; and from Master Industrial Design, Cynthia Hathaway. Each will work on individual trajectories but also collaboratively, along with Lector Alice Twemlow, on a range of initiatives and interventions that respond to the central imperative of the Design & the Deep F...

Date Time Share Alice Twemlow named professor by special appointment of History, Theory and Sociology of Graphic Design and Visual Culture University of Amsterdam Dr Alice Twemlow has been named professor by special appointment in the Wim Crouwel chair in the History, Theory and Sociology of Graphic Design and Visual Culture at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. The chair was established on behalf of the Wim Crouwel Institute, a foundation dedicated to making the heritage of Dutch graphic design accessible for research and education. Twemlow will combine her professors...

Alexandr Yurtchenko / Alamy One billion years from now, Earth’s atmosphere will contain very little oxygen, making it uninhabitable for complex aerobic life. Today, oxygen makes up around 21 per cent of Earth’s atmosphere. Its oxygen-rich nature is ideal for large and complex organisms, like humans, that require the gas to survive. But early in Earth’s history, oxygen levels were much lower – and they are likely to be low again in the distant future. Advertisement Kazumi Ozaki at Toho University in Funabashi, Japan, and Chris Reinhard at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta ...