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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: 04-2012
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MoMA ponders a spectrum of safety-focused designs
You would think that manhole covers had pretty much exceeded the design stage. Not so. The utility Con Edison is using an updated version, the work of American designers Gin L. Eng and Marco Meza,...
April 20, 2012, 2:58 AM PDT | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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Pricey pitfall of prefab homes
A profile of a couple who built a prefabricated home wonders if prefabricated really is more affordable.
April 19, 2012, 7:34 PM PDT | By Sun Joo Kim
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Why countertop soda makers dodn’t need the iPod treatment
Yves Behar is known for his innovative design, but the Source is an answer looking for a problem.
April 19, 2012, 3:17 AM PDT | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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A simple and beautiful wheelchair-friendly kitchen design
A new kitchen designed specifically with the wheelchair-bound in mind creates lots of function without loss of form.
April 19, 2012, 3:00 AM PDT | By Beth Carter
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Who won’t be at the Milan Furniture Fair and why
A survey of designers you won’t see at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile offers reflections on economic trends and the practice of design.
April 18, 2012, 7:18 PM PDT | By Sun Joo Kim
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Style meets function in Mick Peel’s bespoke bike saddles
Saddle craftsman Mick Peel says his work taps into consumers’ desires to possess unique, one-of-a-kind goods and move away from mass-produced gear.
April 18, 2012, 3:30 AM PDT | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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Frequent fliers rejoice: Tumi and Studio Dror re-invent the carry-on bag
Launching at this week’s Milan Furniture Fair, Tumi’s new suitcase–a collaboration with hip, poetic designer Dror Benshetrit–is a patent-pending (and pricey) improvement on...
April 17, 2012, 8:26 PM PDT | By Reena Jana
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The RFID market is growing, but not as planned
The vision of store shelves filled RFID-tagged consumer items has not come to pass. Nonetheless, the RFID industry could generate $70 billion over the next five years.
April 17, 2012, 6:04 AM PDT | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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Mercedes-Benz: now a luxury furniture brand, too?
Mercedes-Benz is a company known for its stylish, high-end cars. In Milan this week, it unveils its first furniture line–for homes, not the interiors of vehicles–inspired by automotive...
April 16, 2012, 8:04 PM PDT | By Reena Jana
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In Norway, a showstopping concert hall
Recently opened in January 2012, Kilden is the largest cultural building ever built in southern Norway.
April 16, 2012, 4:48 AM PDT | By Sun Joo Kim