The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) recently launched the beta phase of their Apparel Index, a system that evaluates and rates the environmental and social impact of clothing items. Support for …
In the mid-1990s visionary Ray Anderson jolted the petroleum-intensive carpet industry by shifting the direction of Interface, Inc. into becoming one ...
On Friday, October 21st and Saturday, October 22nd, Architecture for Humanity will host their annual conference – Design Like You Give a Damn: L ...
I am the daughter of a structural engineer. Before my father retired, he specialized in designing high-rise structures in earthquake prone California. ...
By Douglas Mulhall, Rachel Platin, Sonja Rickert-Kruglov, Alain Riviere, Tanja Scheelhaase, Christoph Semisch, & Christian Sinn. Introduction This is a supplement to an earlier-published article in CATALYST magazine, February ...
For two intense and invigorating days, you’ll gain invaluable design thinking insights, tools, inspiration, and peer-to-peer connections. Leave with the frameworks and tools to Make it happen.
Long time CATALYST contributor and partner the SEE (Sharing Experiencing Europe) Project is back with a brand-new bulletin on Social Innovation Design in Europe.
But has anyone ever resolved to strategically re-design his or her life? Linda Tischler, a Senior Editor at Fast Company, has pledged exactly that.
In designing this desire to be number one, focus can become skewed, research used ineffectively, short cuts taken, resulting in, shall we say, less than desirable results.
The past 20 years has seen a dramatic shift in the global economy and the way in which consumers view themselves and the way in which business views the consumer. Companies and designers have reacted to this new hybrid consumer who is accus ...
Steve Masterson, COO of Kiska, discusses the need to balance the desires of designers with the desires of consumers and our environment. Masterson offers a brief history of product design and speaks to its ability to create desire in consum ...
Lateral thinking is a thought process that involves problem solving in a non-linear fashion, breaking paradigms for enhanced results.
