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Women at work: Insights from Women on the Front Lines of Polish Design →  October 20, 2009

Women in Polish Design - Out of the ashes of a more austere and oppressive time comes a design landscape unfettered by a design past, one that is swiftly moving toward a vibrant future.

Women Stand Behind Their Work: 100% Design London & Designers Block →  September 29, 2009

What Women Make’s London Design Week Wrap-Up →  September 28, 2009

*F means feature to follow in the coming weeks The week transcended all expectations.  With a day’s distance from my time at the fair, I see the trends as follows: Reality skewing shapes, new world order inventions for sustainability rocketing us into better mousetraps, intellectual pursuit, bold against black, color and self-assuredness. Here I recount my [...]

Vision of the future →  July 18, 2009

I was asked the question.  I started to write an off the cuff list.  Here it is: * Crowdsourcing the solution to function and design questions. * The intelligent craftsperson is the visual world’s thought leader. * A challenge to the primacy of traditional currency – a resurgence and innovation in barter. * The most useful and most simple [...]