Ever see something that just transports you back in time? I did this week when I stumbled upon a large display of Teddy Ruxpins at Costco.
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Last week, the American Academy of Pediatrics called for the redesign of hot dogs. “If you were to take the best engineers in the world and asked them to design a perfect plug for a child’s airway, you couldn’t do better than a hot dog,” said Dr. Gary Smith, former chairman of the AAP’s Committee on Injury, Violence, and Poison Prevention. “When it’s wedged in tightly, that child is going to die.” Never ones to resist a challenge, or the chance to play with our food, we carved out a little time to explore the redesign of the hot dog.
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There are four basic areas in which design has an important role to play in value creation, say Ravi Sawhney and Deepa Prahalad.
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The Designers Accord and Fast Company have partnered to showcase the brightest and boldest game-changing Case Studies in Sustainability.
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Happiness is contagious, and that “contagious” quality is where design meets the market. Coca-Cola’s Happiness Machine video is a perfect example of how viral happiness can be.
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RKS team members Harnish Jani, Deepa Prahalad, and Ko Nakatsu will be conducting a workshop entitled “Predictable Magic: Designing Emotional Interactions and Business Results” on February 4th at Interaction10 in Savannah, GA.
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There aren’t enough superlatives to describe the experience the RKS Team and family shared, when legendary astronaut Story Musgrave visited us to give an inspirational presentation.
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Founded in 1950, the Chicago Athenaeum Museum’s historic GOOD DESIGN program is now in its 59th year. GOOD DESIGN bestows international recognition upon the world’s most prominent designers and manufacturers for advancing new, visionary, and innovative product concepts, invention and originality, and for stretching the envelope beyond what is considered ordinary product and consumer design.
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Getting a product out of development and to market is one thing. Getting it into a top-tier store is like that times 100.
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The impact of bottle water, as brilliantly illustrated by Online Education, is astounding. Besides the damage to environment from bottles that end up in landfills or the ocean, the oil used to produce bottled water could fuel a million cars for a year.
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