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This supermarket’s CSR report is a visual feast

Austria's MPREIS supermarket chain has publicly shared its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report as a design-led brochure.

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Travel & Hospitality

Insider dining

Milan – InGalera is a restaurant inside a prison, which, save for the chef and head waiter, is run entirely by inmates.

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Luxury

Scrubs up well

UK – The Soap Co is a luxury soap, hand wash and lotion brand creating jobs for disabled and disadvantaged people.

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Travel & Hospitality

Take refuge

Vienna – Social responsibility and hospitality make good bedfellows at magdas, a hotel where guests share the space with young refugees.

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Design

Beyond beauty: If LS:N Global made… a beauty brand

London – LS:N Global’s beauty brand would harness the latest technology to help consumers deal with 21st-century problems.

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Marketing & Branding

Just the ticket: A creative solution to drink-driving

Salzburg – In a bid to limit drink-driving, the Steigl brewery has created beer bottle labels that double up as tickets for public transport. The dual-purpose labels were designed specifically for Bock, with an alcohol content by volume of about 7%, and were used in the Austrian city of Salzburg over the Christmas period, when alcohol consumption…

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Design

Hey jute: Designers find new use for old material

Paris – Joran Briand of Trust in Design and Corentin de Chatelperron presented the Toul Stool, a product made from jute fibre, at Maison et Object 2013.