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August 9, 2018 by Mark Lauterbach

The Convergence of Product Design and Architecture

Some of my favorite designers—Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, Alvar Aalto and Mies van der Rohe, among others—all subscribed to the idea that design is everything. These masters set standards of simplicity, honesty and functionality through their ideas and prototypes for furniture, products and architecture that still inspire great design to this day. As Little Design […]

August 7, 2018 by Michelle Decker

Retail’s Digital Flip

Tom Pulk and Michelle Decker discuss how digital platforms and social media are turning retail and branding inside out. The traditional ‘product first’ model of retail has been transformed by an increasingly digital world. Think about a standard retail brand: they start with products that they merchandise in brick-and-mortar stores with an accompanying website, hoping […]

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August 2, 2018 by

Design News You Can Use—Workplace Makeover

Looking for a major dose of news you can use? In this edition of Design News You Can Use, Workplace Strategist Joelle Jach explores emotions in the workplace, the decline of the Ping-Pong table and how to support your employees. Try again: Companies are often likely to try anything from beanbag chairs to nap pods […]

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July 10, 2018 by

Design News You Can Use—Health 2.0 Edition

Looking for a major dose of news you can use? In this edition of Design News You Can Use, Workplace Strategist Joelle Jach explores brain health, productivity and practicing what you preach. Guess who’s back: While the workplace as we know it has changed a lot in recent years, there’s still something to be said […]

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June 26, 2018 by Michael Trenary

The Power of Wallflowers: How appealing to introverts can make the retail experience better for everyone

CallisonRTKL’s Michael Trenary discusses why retailers should focus on this untapped market. Introverts compose up to 50 percent of the population. But retailers and other service providers rarely cater to them. With brick-and-mortar retailers so focused on creating big, ostentatious, social experiences to draw customers back into the store, introverts like myself are often left […]