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Giles Slade, author of Made to Break, talks to BW's Reena Jana about how industrial designers, corporations, and consumers alike can benefit from breaking the cycle of "planned obsolescence," or the deliberately short lifespans of gadgets, vehicles, and c
Andrew Blum talks about technology, materials, and how we live today with Yves Behar of fuseproject, Elizabeth Hertzfeld of Remake Design, Jocis Debo of Materialise.MGX, Ivan Luini of Kartell U.S., and Jerry Helling of Bernhardt Design.
Bob Sutton's 2002 book, "Weird Ideas That Work: 11 1-2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation" (The Free Press), gave readers techniques for inspiring innovation in an organization.
It all began with her grandfather's prescription drug bottle, which her grandmother mistook for her own. The confusion put her grandmother in the hospital, and inspired Deborah Adler, a student at the School of Visual Arts, to design a better drug label.
It all started on a road trip. Childhood friends Eric Ryan and Adam Lowry -- one a style and branding expert, the other a chemical engineer -- hatched an idea to create a new line of home-cleaning products.
