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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: 03-2012
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City turns five tons of toilets into pedestrian path
A major renovation project left Bellingham, Washington, with lots of old, inefficient toilets on its hands. Now, those johns are back in service.
March 15, 2012, 5:42 AM PDT | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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In London, Nike designs the retail store of the future
Nike’s newest showcase store features digital technology designed to inspire and motivate the athlete in each person.
March 14, 2012, 8:03 PM PDT | By Sun Joo Kim
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Dragon Skin pavilion: a new bent on plywood
An experimental structure at the 2012 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture explores the use of post-formable plywood.
March 13, 2012, 9:11 PM PDT | By Sun Joo Kim
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Apple’s Jonathan Ive: great design is about focus, simplicity, emotion
To Apple’s design guru, Sir Jonathan Ive, innovation is a focused pursuit of creating simpler products that may not be so simple to design–and which spark emotional connections with users.
March 13, 2012, 7:20 PM PDT | By Reena Jana
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New speed record set for 3-D nanoprinting
The faster printing process could improve the feasibility of printing nanoscale components for biomedical applications.
March 13, 2012, 1:03 PM PDT | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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Fiat’s 500L gets lukewarm reception at Geneva Auto Show
Fiat hopes North American drivers looking for a family-friendly version of its compact 500 will turn to the roomier 500L. Critics aren’t so sure.
March 13, 2012, 5:51 AM PDT | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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How to spark creativity
Is creativity innate? Researchers are exploring the science of creativity and Jonah Lehrer argues that anyone can use their findings to learn to be creative.
March 12, 2012, 10:06 PM PDT | By Sun Joo Kim
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New data-visualization tools promise to democratize infographic design
Visually, a start-up that began as a social-media platform for infographic designers, is now offering do-it-yourself data visualization tools for anyone to create eye-catching, stat-based charts.
March 12, 2012, 10:38 AM PDT | By Reena Jana
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The plastic legacy of Great East Japan tsunami debris
Research project 5 Gyres will explore the Northern Pacific Gyre this summer to study the toll that last year’s earthquake and tsunami is taking on the ocean.
March 10, 2012, 7:31 AM PST | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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Q&A: Hitoshi Abe on design lessons from the Great East Japan earthquake
Award-winning architect and UCLA professor Hitoshi Abe discusses the innovation and design insights he’s gleaned a year after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated his native Japan.
March 9, 2012, 12:14 PM PST | By Reena Jana