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Decoding Design
Decoding Design focuses on product, process and industrial design and architecture and how that approach can be applied to systems and infrastructure.
Reena Jana
Reena Jana
Contributing Editor, Design
Reena Jana has written for the New York Times, Wired, Harvard Business Review online, Fast Company, Architectural Record, Artforum, Time Out New York, Harper's Bazaar, and GQ. Previously, she was the innovation department editor at BusinessWeek. She holds degrees from Columbia University and Barnard College.
Reena Jana
Reena occasionally consults with companies, and when her writing discusses a corporation or other organization with which she has worked, she will disclose this fact. Reena does not hold any investments in the companies she covers.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Sun Joo Kim
Sun Joo Kim
Contributing Editor, Architecture
Sun Joo Kim is an architect and creative consultant based in Boston. Her projects include design and master planning of museums, public institutions, hospitals, and university buildings across the U.S. She holds a degree from Carnegie Mellon University and is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council.
Sun Joo Kim
Sun Joo is an independent architectural designer who contracts with design firms. She does not hold any investments in the companies she covers.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Beth Carter
Beth Carter
Contributing Editor, Design
Beth Carter is a freelance journalist based in New York City. She has worked for Catalyst magazine, the New York Times Syndicate, BBC Travel and Wired. She holds degrees from the University of Oregon and New York University.
Beth Carter
Beth does not have financial holdings that would influence how or what she covers in her writing.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Mary Catherine O'Connor
Mary Catherine O'Connor
Contributing Editor, Design
Mary Catherine O'Connor has written for Fast Company, Wired, Outside, Entrepreneur, Earth2Tech, Earth Island Journal and The Bold Italic. She is based in San Francisco.
Mary Catherine O'Connor
Mary Catherine has written white papers and marketing material for technology companies and will not write about companies with which is actively engaged. She will disclose any instances in which her work mentions companies for which she has worked. Mary Catherine does not hold any investments in the companies that she covers.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
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Q&A: Piero Gandini, CEO of Flos lighting
What makes for a great collaboration between a company and outside designers? We ask Piero Gandini, CEO of lighting maker Flos, which has worked with legendary designers like Philippe Starck
May 22, 2012 9:54am |
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Maker Faire: Ponoko and the rise of the personal factory
The third industrial revolution can't be realized through small batch manufacturing. It needs scale. For this, makers are turning to web-based service brokers.
May 22, 2012 3:38am |
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Quieting the buzz around the office
How do offices balance the desire for collaboration with the need for privacy and discretion?
2 | May 20, 2012 9:15pm |
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How the 'creative class' is re-making the world
The tools and knowledge that startups need to begin small-scale manufacturing -- on a shoestring budget -- are proliferating. So, now what?
May 20, 2012 3:00pm |
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Keen Footwear's founder redesigns the office seat, inspired by tractors
Martin Keen, founder of Keen Footwear, is now branching into furniture. He's focusing on seats and desks--inspired by antique tractors--that aim to appeal to health-conscious, active office workers.
May 19, 2012 9:23am |
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Audi's new futuristic electric bike was designed for fun
Audi has created an e-bike that's built for speed, tricks and an overall good time.
1 | May 19, 2012 3:00am |
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Designs for Amazon's future headquarters are coming into focus
Amazon is planning to build a larger Seattle headquarters in the near future. Architects have been presenting designs in public meetings, revealing the online retailer's office--and community--goals.
2 | May 18, 2012 6:15am |
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TexTrace weaves smarts into clothing labels for better tracking
By embedding radio frequency identification tags into labels, manufacturers can improve product tracking and fight counterfeiting.
May 18, 2012 3:30am |
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How Rotterdam moves people into "hotspot" neighborhoods
In the Netherlands, hotspots are crime ridden, undesirable neighborhoods. How is the city's Urbannerdam program revitalizing those hotspots?
1 | May 17, 2012 9:23pm |
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'Super Concrete' to make buildings stronger, more flexible
Materials being developed at the University of Michigan could help buildings and infrastructure last longer and withstand more natural disasters.
1 | May 17, 2012 6:00pm |
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The Met creates mobile game to boost learning, interaction
Smartphone-toting museum goers are given clues to solve the mysterious (if fictitious) murder of Madame X.
May 16, 2012 3:20am |
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Next-level space saving: The Corner Ladder
The Corner Ladder takes space-saving design to the next level by tucking away neatly.
6 | May 16, 2012 3:00am |
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Does the myth of the lone design visionary limit women architects?
Women architects face many challenges. Even when they are top collaborators at recognized firms, they can be overlooked by prize committees. Can we blame the myth of the singular "genius"?
1 | May 15, 2012 8:31pm |
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Former Phish manager brings acoustics to the table
A restaurant in Berkeley, California uses a high tech sound system normally used in Cirque du Soleil productions and the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir's recording studio.
May 15, 2012 6:54pm |
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Magazines struggle to cross the digital divide
Even some publishers of technology-focused content are in a pickle over how best to design and serve up content electronically. Oftentimes, there's not an "app for that."
1 | May 15, 2012 3:07am |
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Does 'copying' trump innovation as a design strategy?
Innovation has been the hot business buzzword in recent years--but could the act of lawfully "copying" other companies' ideas be just as, or more successful than, creating original products?
6 | May 13, 2012 9:30am |
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The Telepod: A 360-degree, life-sized teleconferencing system
A research team at the Human Media Lab at Queen's University has created a 360-degree display using Microsoft Kinect sensors, an acrylic cylinder and a 3D projector.
May 11, 2012 3:00am |
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Modern workday designs cut the corner office
The designers of the offices and headquarters of Facebook, AOL, Yelp, and Microsoft share how to design for the modern work day.
May 10, 2012 8:48pm |
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Brydge Kickstarter project literally bridges gap between iPad and laptop
A runaway Kickstarter project transforms the iPad into a laptop, speakers and all.
2 | May 10, 2012 6:00am |
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Transit hubs emerging as advanced tech, clean energy centers
From a new net-zero-energy transit center in Massachusetts, to walkways that capture the energy produced by commuters, transit hubs are going high-tech and low-impact.
May 10, 2012 3:01am |