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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: 02-2012
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Philippe Starck designs a chic, user-friendly ‘bike of the future’
Enduringly hip designer Philippe Starck collaborates with the city of Bordeaux, France and Peugeot to create a concept for a safe, and intuitive vehicle for urban bike-sharing. Oh, and it’s...
February 20, 2012, 12:11 PM PST | By Reena Jana
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Designer turns tubes into trains, trucks, but not trash
Tubes Toys introduces kids to the concept of creative reuse at an early age.
February 20, 2012, 6:00 AM PST | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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Q&A: Seung Chan Lim on improving human centered design
What does empathy have to do with innovation and technology? According to Rhode Island based designer Seung Chan Lim, plenty and not enough.
February 19, 2012, 5:04 PM PST | By Sun Joo Kim
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Celebrity ‘design experts’: good for the innovation business?
In the last few months, the trend of movie stars and rock stars promoting their own architecture and design projects has grown. Can celebrities boost the design industry’s...
February 19, 2012, 12:15 PM PST | By Reena Jana
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Sweden building major urban greenhouse for vertical gardens
Swedish firm Plantagon has broken ground on a large urban greenhouse, its first major foray into vertical agriculture.
February 18, 2012, 8:53 AM PST | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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A simple, space-saving redesign of the bulky British power plug
The sleek, collapsible, award-winning reconceptualized British power plug is now available to the public.
February 17, 2012, 7:35 PM PST | By Beth Carter
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In Bangkok, a house as a sign of the times
Would you be willing to live behind a giant billboard if your house could pay for itself?
February 17, 2012, 12:30 AM PST | By Sun Joo Kim
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A preview of TED 2012’s hot-ticket design session
Design will be a focus at this year’s high-profile TED conference in Long Beach, California. Here’s a look at the five thought leaders who will present during a session devoted to the...
February 16, 2012, 11:05 AM PST | By Reena Jana
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Jeanne Gang’s genius take on suburban housing
According to the MacArthur fellow and architect, design is a cause of and a solution to the problem of single family housing in suburbia.
February 16, 2012, 9:48 AM PST | By Sun Joo Kim
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A thermometer that shows temperature through touch
An industrial design student at RIT developed a concept for a thermostat that communicates temperature through touch.
February 16, 2012, 7:00 AM PST | By Beth Carter