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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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How will Apple's patent win affect the future of design?
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On top of Boston's Big Dig
The first permanent structure on top of Boston's Big Dig showcases direct to fabrication digital modeling.
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Decoding the design of the iconic Tripp Trapp chair
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Sprout: a pencil that writes, then grows
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Condense your wallet and keys into a sleek money clip, so you can lose both at once
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MoMA explores 20th-century toy design in fun, smart exhibition
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Buildings, a.k.a. energy storage devices
Automating demand response systems can help grid operators give renewable energy more, well, utility.
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Post recession home design trends
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Wallbots: user responsive robotic walls
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Marine drone concept: Plucking plastic pollution for profit
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Zaha Hadid collaborates with Donna Karan
For her latest project, award winning architect Zaha Hadid goes small.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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.
1 | August 17, 2012 3:03am |
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In China, villa-offices are built on the roof of a shopping center
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Peter Marino, top architect of luxury stores, designs with materials in mind
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Learning from Venturi and Scott Brown
Architecture's postmodern heroes have left the building.
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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.
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