Congratulations All Around!

The entire RKS team would like to congratulate our very own Young Bang for her IDEA Gold win. 

Connecting the Dots

What do the KOR ONE hydration vessel and RKS guitar have in common? Plenty. Not only did a BusinessWeek cover story on the RKS guitar bring KOR Water and RKS Design together, the lessons RKS designers learned from the guitar were used to create the same level of passion and elegance in the KOR ONE bottle.

Ravi Sawhney Inducted into the IDSA Academy of Fellows

RKS is proud to announce that Ravi Sawhney, RKS founder and CEO, was inducted in the Industrial Designer’s Society of America’s Academy of Fellows at the opening ceremony of IDSA’s Project Infusion in Miami.

Celebrating at Project Infusion

Dr. Lorraine Justice, the Swire Chair Professor and Director of the School of Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, performs an interpretive dance at the traditional roast that follows induction into the IDSA Academy of Fellows:

2009 Catalyst Case Study Selections Announced!

The Industrial Designers Society of America and strategy, innovation, and design consultancy RKS are proud to announce the 2009 Catalyst case study selections – showcasing design’s power to effect positive change.

Teaching Moments: A New Era for Design Education

Taking the time to teach is one of the most rewarding ways of contributing to the growth of our profession. Through the years, I’ve been fortunate enough to teach and speak about design and design thinking at schools that include Harvard, SCAD, and Art Center College of Design.

Read more of Ravi’s blog post on Fast Company here.

Re-Designing Design

Savannah College of Art and Design faculty visits RKS to learn RKS’s proprietary design thinking methodology and stay ahead of the curve in this new era of design.

A Better Way to Health Care Reform: Is There a Designer in the House?

As I watch the debate over health care reform, I’ve begun to see clearly how designers can create a solution that wouldn’t be such a bitter pill for so many and would help quiet the level of disagreement currently being experienced by so many.

Here’s how my plan would work:

Broken Guitar Has United Playing the Blues to the Tune of $180 Million

Singer-songwriter Dave Carroll’s United flight had just landed when he heard a passenger behind him exclaim, “My god they’re throwing guitars out there.” Members of his band, Sons of Maxwell, looked out in time to see their guitars being tossed by baggage handlers. When Carroll later confirmed that his beloved guitar was a casualty in the melee, it wasn’t just his $3,500 Taylor guitar that was broken. His heart was broken, too. He was able to have the guitar repaired for $1,200, but it will never be quite the same. “It plays well but has lost much of what made it special,” says Carroll.

Hamilton Nimbus wins IDEA Silver

BusinessWeek has announced RKS won a 2009 IDEA Silver award for the Hamilton MicroLab® Nimbus, an advanced robotic pipetting system for the preparation of lab samples for molecular analysis.