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Decoding Design
Decoding Design focuses on product, process and industrial design and architecture and how that approach can be applied to systems and infrastructure.
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.
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Q&A: Philip Hamilton, Director of Product, The North Face
Outdoor gear manufacturer The North Face is speeding up its innovation and design processes by assembling a new lab and deploying fresh strategies. Patrick Hamilton, the company's Director of...
November 16, 2011 8:18pm |
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Preventive design in UK emergency rooms
Can better design keep hospital staff safe and waiting patients calm?
November 16, 2011 6:22pm |
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Q&A: Dennis Urbaniak, Vice President, Diabetes at Sanofi U.S.
The head of the Diabetes team at Sanofi U.S. discusses lessons learned from hosting an open design competition to create easy-to-use disease-management apps.
November 16, 2011 8:56am |
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The Atlanta Beltline combines design, greenspace and transportation into one
The Beltline isn't Atlanta's answer to the High Line, despite having one of the same design firms at the helm.
1 | November 15, 2011 10:02pm |
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When biologists become designers of humans, then what?
As the tools and knowledge base for engineering genetic codes advance, the tools for designing the end product have limited usefulness.
2 | November 15, 2011 9:50pm |
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Reviewing safe construction in emerging countries
A symposium at Yale University debated how to build safely in countries that have no building codes.
November 15, 2011 4:42am |
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Designing a cheaper, simpler prosthetic arm
An Illinois non-profit has created the Open Socket prosthetic arm, a low-cost, easy-to-use device intended for developing-world amputees. Its design and price tag will likely attract...
1 | November 14, 2011 8:30am |
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Chicago funeral home design lets the light in
Funeral homes tend to be so...funereal. But clad in glass and Jerusalem stone, the new, airy home of Chicago Jewish Funerals breaks the funeral home mold.
November 14, 2011 6:30am |
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In Thailand, finding refuge in concrete viaduct
A makeshift community rises out of a flooded neighborhood of Bangkok.
1 | November 13, 2011 7:02pm |
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Architect Edward Mazria awarded for greener building efforts
Veteran architect Edward Mazria is pushing younger designers to integrate carbon-neutral building operation into their work through Architecture 2030.
November 11, 2011 10:53am |
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Report details economic impact of stalled architecture projects
A new report from the American Institute of Architects outlines how delaying building projects is affecting the economy, as well as progress in eco-friendly construction.
1 | November 11, 2011 7:48am |
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Glacier Walk wins the cultural category for future projects at WAF
The Glacier Discovery Walk juts from the natural landscape of the Columbia Icefields at Canada's Jasper National Park, acting as a gateway to the surrounding environment.
November 11, 2011 5:00am |
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Rammed earth: traditional eco-architecture
Rammed earth construction offers a history lesson in naturally sustainable building methods.
1 | November 10, 2011 7:27pm |
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World Usability Day celebrates and encourages simpler technology
On November 10, more than 200 events in dozens of nations will be held in honor of World Usability Day. More than a holiday, it's a movement to design products and services that are easier to use.
1 | November 9, 2011 8:27pm |
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How the economic times impact modern American home design
Less drama and less waste mark the blueprints for residential design in the US.
4 | November 9, 2011 7:52pm |
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GE's Renewable Energy Division now housed in renovated 1909 factory
An entry in this year's WAN Awards: the 100 year-old building transformed into green office space for GE's Renewable Energy Division.
1 | November 9, 2011 5:00pm |
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BLM testing camouflage to hide new energy structures
The agency has turned to experts who design camouflage for military applications to reduce the visual impact of new buildings on otherwise wild lands.
3 | November 9, 2011 12:19pm |
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Windscraper: Integrated wind harvesting for Greece's Piraeus Tower
The winning entry for the Piraeus Tower competition is an eco-friendly relative of skyscrapers and earthscrapers.
November 8, 2011 8:08pm |
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Smart roof earns skating track architecture prize
Thanks to a new, innovative roof, Germany's Speedskating Stadium Inzell has earned the title of best sports building in the 2011 World Architecture Awards.
November 8, 2011 6:34pm |
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A stylish new possibility for urban beekeepers
Philips has unveiled a sleek, in-home beekeeping system. Is this the future of urban beekeeping?
3 | November 8, 2011 3:00pm |