We're quite taken with this video called A Warm Place which was made by Jeff Morris in Yosemite Park in California USA. The power of nature is without compare and we're in awe of her beauty.

Everybody wants to be happy- and achieving this is not as difficult as many people think. The keywords are compassion, sharing and identifying what really makes you -and other people- happy.

How do we want to change the world? Together with you! Read more about our mission below.

Beauty without Irony (the art collective that gave birth to Designers against AIDS in 2001) wants to make the world more beautiful by using elements from pop culture to raise awareness about the fact  that life is worth living and that true beauty, love, friendship, health and nature bring lots more- and longer lasting-  joy than expensive handbags, villas or yachts.

For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality.

Interview with Ninette Murk, founder of both art collective Beauty without Irony and NGO Designers Against AIDS

Today we received the Fall issue of Zoo Magazine (nr 32) and imagine our surprise when we discovered that we got not one but two pages in there -one for Designers against AIDS and the other for Beauty without Irony- both designed by Tom Tosseyn. Featured in the BWI ad is Tom's new limitied edition scarve, which you can order now.

Our sister organization NGO Designers against AIDS (DAA) has the Twitter account _DAA and they're trying to organize #PersonalTweetsOnlyDay on September 1st. Here you can find out why.

This still is from a video installation by contemporary artist Marie Julia Bollanssée- I love the atmosphere and the colours!

Over 100 artists are featured in the book, but many more have sent us work....

On Friday October 29 auction house Campo & Campo in Antwerp auctioned many art works made by photographers and other contemporary artists who also contributed to our new book 'Designers against AIDS: The First Decade!'.

From the almost 50 works on offer, only 4 didn't sell because they didn't reach the minimum price, so we can say that the auction was a big success. All proceeds go to benefit DAA's new Education Center and a big thanks goes out to everybody who has made this auction and the book possible- you are all superstars! Enjoy the collage of the sold works, made for DAA by Michael James O'Brien and Zoltan Gerliczki.

Last Friday the DAA book launch and charity auction at Campo & Campo took place and fun was had by all...

Beauty without Irony wants to become a place where lovers of true beauty and haters of hypocrisy and hypes come together- although we don’t really ‘do’ hate, since we prefer to focus on the positive at all times.
Do you want to make the world a more beautiful place? Do you have something amazing to show, or do you know an artist who would fit perfectly in our online art collective? Please let us know and meanwhile, get inspired by what you see here.

The making of this book has been pretty intense for a lot of people, so when it arrived from the printers today, a collective sigh of relief could be heard from Antwerp to ...well, to everywhere. Well done, us!