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 […]
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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 […]
Read More ›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 […]
Read More ›Following the WWD Retail 20/20 conference in New York, CallisonRTKL’s Joan Insel and Cindi Kato explain the trends on the ground and how they are going to change the shopping experience for years to come. Every year, retailers, brands, technology companies and designers come together for the WWD Retail 20/20 conference. The event attracts the […]
Read More ›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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