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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: 09-2012
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How Marriott is designing a smarter business hotel
With some help from Steelcase, the hotel and resort company is redefining hotels as workspaces.
September 30, 2012, 8:20 PM PDT | By Sun Joo Kim
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Sensory systems and innovative design
Designer Tom Dixon’s interesting twist on the topic of sound and the design of everyday objects.
September 30, 2012, 6:04 PM PDT | By Sun Joo Kim
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Autographer: another way to parse piles of visual data
The Autographer passively records the events of the day, building up a photographic crumb trail from your point of view.
September 28, 2012, 3:00 AM PDT | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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In Brooklyn, exporting U.S.-made goods to China
How did Watermark Designs flip the manufacturing and exporting script?
September 27, 2012, 4:49 AM PDT | By Sun Joo Kim
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The vanishing briefcase
Books and newspapers aren’t the only things disappearing because of electronic media.
September 24, 2012, 6:22 PM PDT | By Sun Joo Kim
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Kickstarter kicks renderings to the curb
The fundraising platform redesigns its guidelines for hardware and product design projects.
September 23, 2012, 7:42 PM PDT | By Sun Joo Kim
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Did Apple steal the Swiss Federal Railways clock design?
The rail company says it will happily accept a license agreement and compensation from Apple for using its clock design in the iOS 6 software.
September 22, 2012, 5:02 PM PDT | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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Design drivers for safe mobile applications
Can platform developers design a safe way to live (as in, not die) with cars and smartphones?
September 20, 2012, 3:00 AM PDT | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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In Amsterdam, world’s first mobile 3D printing pavilion
Architects DUS design a pavilion that can print pavilions.
September 19, 2012, 9:03 PM PDT | By Sun Joo Kim
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Clinton Global Initiative’s Annual Meeting to focus on design
A major event that world leaders, CEOs, movie stars, and both U.S. Presidential candidates will attend next week promises to use design thinking to solve large-scale humanitarian problems.
September 19, 2012, 7:24 PM PDT | By Reena Jana