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Lukas Yonis Abubeker
Lukas Yonis Abubeker

Lukas Yonis Abubeker

Barcelona

A designer and creative director with more than a decade of experience. Since 2019, the climate crisis has pushed him to develop a critical perspective on technology, social progress, and economics.

Previous Posts
A woman read a text message from her Friend AI wearable.

What makes a friend?

๐Ÿ„ Growth Imperatives, No. 11

A woman at a desk using her laptop while the room fills with water

Do we really need to learn about the climate crisis? Weโ€™re just designers, after all.

In the design industry, the climate crisis seems like a spectator sport. How can reimagining our arms-length relationship with it help push us toward action?

A series of meteors hit a cloud-covered earth at sunset. Vantage point is in-between the cloud layers

๐Ÿ„ Growth Imperatives No. 10: Origins

This week, we look at how the stories we tell ourselves affect the narratives we act out.

A macro of a bee's wings.

How can design be "inspired by nature" without greenwashing?

While biomimicry is a step in the right direction, do we misunderstand what parts of nature weโ€™re supposed to mimic?

A man sitting at a desk. Many people surround him and do his tasks: holding his phone, holding his cigarette, etc.

๐Ÿ„ Growth Imperatives No. 9: Convenience

This week, we have insights on convenience and its effect on fulfillment, mental health, and communal bonds.

Two people walking. A heavy motion blur is applied to the photo.

Whatโ€™s driving design culture?

Even if design drives culture, we have to ask, "Who's at the wheel? And where are they driving to?"

A sphere with a dot-matrix pattern resembling a golf ball.

๐Ÿ„ Growth Imperatives No. 8: Atomization

We're dying for community, but individualize everything. Why is that?

A "Make America Great Again" hat, modified to read "Make Orwell Fiction Again".

The 400-year-old mentality that still influences design

The worldview that made design is dying a slow death, but change tends to happen not-at-all, and then all-at-once.

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