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Fernando Del Vecchio Some Ideas are Too Big We all have ideas. Some have great ideas. What is the difference between an idea and a big idea?

Pau De Riba Invisible Design After the “premium” stage where design acts as quality mark, good design should become a “commodity”, a component of the welfare society we take for granted.

Fernando Rodríguez Álvarez The Citizen Designer In the dark days that live Mexico, emerges a discussion about how designers get involved with social conflicts.

Fernando Del Vecchio And Where are the Opportunities? Somebody has a problem and somebody has the answer to that problem, but... ¿How can we do to meet this couple?

Luis Llabrés Typeface is Now Considered as Intelectual Property For the very first time, after 10 years of a long legal process, an originally created alphabet is considered «protectable artistic work» by the Intelectual Property Law in Spain

Alfredo Gutiérrez Borrero Realities and Conventions Even though we refuse to accept it, there is indeed life in other brains: the culture of scorn harms us designers.

Fernando Del Vecchio The Challenge of Communicating Value A question to which creative entrepreneurs have no answer to: the value of their proposal.

Fernando Del Vecchio A Passion for Design Who doesn't want to feel passion for what he or she likes, and loves?

Julio Broca The Image as Idea, Graphic, and Message What is an image? How is it conceived? How is it part of a message?

Marco Rinaldi Are We Destined to Fail as Entrepreneurs? The growing number of creative professionals that venture into entrepreneurship raises doubts and concern.

María de Mater O’Neill Views and Reflections on Design Education: Local Voices from Puerto Rico Limited inquiry that explored ways of knowing, experiences, and procedures in teaching design in Puerto Rico using a critical reflective practice approach.

Jorge Luis Muñoz Social Design Cases Social design as a part of graphic design is not only a matter of concepts; it is fundamentally awareness on what is designed and what is done.

Greta Sánchez Instagram: Rage for Ubiquitous Image The most succesful image social network, beyond predjudices about it triviality, is also a tool that can be used in marketing, visual education and ethnograpic research.

Alfredo Gutiérrez Borrero When Conviction Gets in the Way Not all pathways lead us to the same design, nor we all have to design through the same pathway.

Martha Gutiérrez Miranda Design and Intelligence Development Human beings are born with several potentialities marked by genetics; nevertheless, today we know that we can develop some others through certain stimulus, like design.

Victor Garcia Kusi Kusi: Identity as a (regrettable) ‘State affair’ A recognized puppet theater from Lima, multi-award winning internationally, active for half a century, is claiming against Channel 7 TV Perust for usurping their brand.

Marco Rinaldi Management vs. Leadership We don't need to manage the present but we should lead the future.

Alfredo Gutiérrez Borrero Forum, “Fuero” and “Foras”! On the shared construction of a design without geographical, academic or professional boundaries.

Sebastian Guerrini I Am a Designer Anthropologist My job, to design brands for clients who have an international projection, led me to do a different activity from the one of the traditional designer.

Camilo A. Angulo The Roots of Industrial Design Colleges in Colombia Looking back from two theories about its origin.

Camilo A. Angulo Green Models in Classroom Design teachers must spread pedagogical processes for a green world to reduce the impact of our academic exercises on the local environment.

Hector Bruguera Being a New Rockstar of Design Can future designers create a sustainable personal image on any scenario that the market might present?

David Gallo Planned Obsolescence Design should no longer respond to market interests anymore, but to the human needs that as a global community we have created as time goes by.

Manuel Guerrero Brief Introduction to Typography Study in the Antique Book A review about Marina Garone's book, that allows to understand a great part of the vocabulary currently used in editorial and typographic design.

Cecilia Salinas Paul Ricoeur and creative search The origin of the creative act from a philosopher's perspective.

Mario Aleman A Digital Ecosystem for the New Generations Our current ecosystem is Web 2.0, interactive publicity and online marketing.

Antonio Recamier Malacca Beach: Social and Environmental Implications of Design A call to designers and engineers to take up social and environmental impact in their designs - especially when it comes to off-shore resource extraction.

Fernando Navia Meyer Graphic Design's Carbon Footprint Carbon footprint is defined as the total amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse effect gases, bound to a product or service.