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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: 08-2012
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DARPA to crowdsource amphibious vehicle design
DARPA is known for its role in developing innovations such as the Internet; now, the U.S. Department of Defense agency is creating an open design competition to improve tanks used by Marines.
August 20, 2012, 3:45 AM PDT | By Reena Jana
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Old meets new, meets hipster, in iTypewriter
Who needs a flashy wireless iPad keyboard when you could be using a typewriter?
August 20, 2012, 3:00 AM PDT | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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Holographic system lets designers escape the screen
Is the day that designers and engineers can view their projects outside the limits of their monitors finally here?
August 19, 2012, 6:37 PM PDT | By Sun Joo Kim
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Apple has its eyes on your fingertips, for security apps
Biometric authentication is highly secure and easy, since users don’t need to remember and key in an identification number.
August 17, 2012, 3:03 AM PDT | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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In China, villa-offices are built on the roof of a shopping center
A community of rooftop villas has been constructed on top of a bustling shopping center in the city of Zhuzhou in Hunan Province.
August 17, 2012, 3:00 AM PDT | By Beth Carter
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Peter Marino, top architect of luxury stores, designs with materials in mind
The perpetually leather-clad designer Peter Marino is the go-to retail architect for iconic high-end brands such as Chanel and Vuitton. His strategies are subtle and sometimes counter-intuitive.
August 16, 2012, 7:51 PM PDT | By Reena Jana
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Learning from Venturi and Scott Brown
Architecture’s postmodern heroes have left the building.
August 15, 2012, 9:36 PM PDT | By Sun Joo Kim
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Ikea to develop ‘budget design hotels’
Inter Ikea, the company that owns the intellectual property rights of the Swedish furniture retailer, will create a chain of sleek, inexpensive hotels across Europe.
August 15, 2012, 7:58 PM PDT | By Reena Jana
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BMW introduces a folding e-bike to complement the i3 concept car
Going even further to make personal mobility in dense urban areas more convenient and energy efficient, BMW has introduced an e-bike that fits (and charges) in the trunk of its i3 Concept car
August 15, 2012, 3:00 AM PDT | By Beth Carter
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Will building-integrated solar take off?
A new report says the technology shows great promise, but the solar industry needs to start thinking like builders and architects.
August 15, 2012, 3:00 AM PDT | By Mary Catherine O'Connor