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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.
Hot Posts
Archive: 05-2012
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Nokia’s new typeface: designed to work in any language
Nokia and typography design group Dalton Maag have created a typeface that crosses borders and languages effortlessly.
May 25, 2012, 3:00 AM PDT | By Beth Carter
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The ‘maker’ community eyes the ‘Internet of Things’
As the company behind the Arduino open source platform, Atmel is primed to ride the “maker” market wave.
May 25, 2012, 3:00 AM PDT | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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Meet Sir Jonathan Ive: Apple’s designer gets royal nod
Apple’s design chief is now a knight, having been bestowed the honor by the iPad-toting Princess Anne.
May 23, 2012, 9:46 AM PDT | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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Big banks are redesigning branches as cafes, boats, ‘concept stores’
Now offering lattes, elegant couches, rows of Apple computers–or services on a boat: big banks are increasingly using design as a strategy to lure in customers, from the wealthy to the poor.
May 23, 2012, 8:29 AM PDT | By Reena Jana
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Modern design for the little ones: Elips Design’s kid-friendly home
The London-based designers find a way to balance the sleek minimalism of modern design with family-friendly functionality and some fun surprises for the kids!
May 23, 2012, 3:00 AM PDT | By Beth Carter
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Modern domestic designs for aging
Named “No country for old men”, a collection of domestic objects addresses the everyday difficulties of aging, and modern life.
May 22, 2012, 7:05 PM PDT | By Sun Joo Kim
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Q&A: Piero Gandini, CEO, Flos lighting
What makes for a great collaboration between a company and outside designers? We ask a man who has Philippe Starck on speed dial.
May 22, 2012, 9:54 AM PDT | By Reena Jana
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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, 3:38 AM PDT | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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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?
May 20, 2012, 9:15 PM PDT | By Sun Joo Kim
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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, 3:00 PM PDT | By Mary Catherine O'Connor