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Decoding Design
Reena Jana
Reena Jana
Contributing Editor
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
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
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
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.
Archive: 09-2011
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Two new diabetes-management concepts worth watching
The two finalists in the Sanofi-Aventis Data Design Diabetes Innovation Challenge offer examples of how creative thinking and an entrepreneurial spirit can fuel new products and services to help...
September 30, 2011, 11:41 AM PDT | By Reena Jana
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Make Eyewear puts you in the designer’s seat
Make Eyewear is Maker Faire meets Etsy: An online shop for consumers who want unique — or even bespoke — glasses with a DIY, techy edge.
September 30, 2011, 8:18 AM PDT | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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WaterShed wins Architecture Contest of Solar Decathlon
The University of Maryland’s WaterShed won the Architecture Contest of the 2011 US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon.
September 29, 2011, 12:50 PM PDT | By Sun Joo Kim
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Dutch architecture firm rethinks the urban farm
An architecture firm in Holland has plans to make eating locally possible in big cities. Is this the future of the urban farm?
September 28, 2011, 5:14 PM PDT | By Beth Carter
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Solar Decathlon encourages designs within financial reach
Nineteen university teams, vying for the 2011 Solar Decathlon title, have worked affordability into their designs.
September 28, 2011, 12:36 PM PDT | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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Film trilogy examines design’s broad power, from fonts to cities
“Urbanized,” a new documentary by Gary Hustwit, completes a series that looks at how designers influence our lives from micro to macro levels–from typefaces to gadgets to...
September 27, 2011, 8:16 PM PDT | By Reena Jana
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How to recycle a 747 jet
In Malibu California, an architect and his client take aluminum recycling to extremes.
September 27, 2011, 5:35 PM PDT | By Sun Joo Kim
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Peepoo turns plastic bags into tools for healthcare, economic development
Peepoople has redesigned the ubiquitous plastic bag into a sanitation solution that can improve the health of slum dwellers — and give some a way to rise out of poverty.
September 27, 2011, 8:00 AM PDT | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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Portland invests in green building
The city of Portland approves plans for the Oregon Sustainability Center and recognizes the value of sustainable building.
September 26, 2011, 7:25 PM PDT | By Sun Joo Kim
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The Low Line: can New York’s underground be revitalized?
A park with natural sunlight and plant life has been proposed to fill an empty subterranean trolley station in New York- is the future of sustainable urban design underground?
September 26, 2011, 3:21 PM PDT | By Beth Carter