This week we suggest ways to celebrate National Design Week, investigate nextism, look at India’s rich design history, offer you advice on marketing and explore the question: do open plans work in higher ed research facilities?
In honor of National Design Week, October 15-23, take a virtual tour of the Cooper-Hewitt. No ticket to the October 20 gala dinner for the recipients of the National Design Awards? As a consolation, catch a live webcast by the award winners on October 18th when they will discuss the state of design in the U.S.
The Knowledge Center receives a large amount of traffic from India, so it’s good to see a book on the history of interior design in India. Volume 1 covers 600 years of design in Ahmedabad city from the medieval period up through the early Republic. We eagerly await volume 2.
Have you noticed lately a proliferation of buy-back plans, product exchanges, and trade-ins for everything from electronics to jeans? Welcome to the world of Re-commerce, a phenomenon driven by nextism, statusphere and excusumption.
A marketing plan designed to get your firm through the recession and out the other side bigger and stronger from ArchNewsNow, entitled You Survived, Part 2.
Research that refutes the value of the open floor plan in higher education. Designing For Interaction In Research Environments: A Case Study, concludes that an open plan alone is insufficient to encourage collaboration in a research environment.
[...] IIDA’s Design Matters released an article today titled “Five Things you Need to Know This Week”. One of the “things” on their list is the idea of “recommerce” and “nextism”. After a little research, it appears that big-name companies are adopting this idea of trading in and trading-up. [...]