“The majority of the world’s designers focus all their efforts on developing products and services exclusively for the richest 10% of the world’s customers. Nothing less than a revolution in design is needed to reach the other 90%.â€
—Dr. Paul Polak, International Development Enterprises
A great exhibition on view in the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, through September 23, 2007. An initiative by Paul Polak and D-Rev.
Paul Polak – founder of Colorado-based non-profit International Development enterprises (IDE) — is dedicated to developing practical solutions that attack poverty at its roots.
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Don’t forget your shovel. :: OLPC in Ottawa and in Ethiopia says:
Mar 5, 2008
[...] In still other news, World Citizen Reminded me of the fact that this is really about Design for the other 90%. [...]