Thought Leadership
Clean Living: Way Beyond Food
When we think of healthy living, often our minds think of healthy eating. But the concept extends far beyond the food we eat — it also includes the air we breathe, the chemicals in our water, the processes by which we cook our food and our overall sense of mental...
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High Point Market: Challenging the Status Quo
A “Why Can’t I?” moment was among the takeaways at the NKBA Certified Designer Business Summit. By Elle H-Millard, CKD, NKBA Insider The NKBA brought more than 70 of its certified designers to a two-day business summit in collaboration with the High Point Market...
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Upcycled Materials
ESTHETIC ACTIVISM Recycling her company’s own goods Eileen Fischer buys back old clothes from clients and reinvents them into a collage of scraps. This act twice gifts the world with beauty, first as a garment and then as an artwork. This is aesthetic activism...
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Bob Borson’s Discoveries at CEDIA Expo
I am a seasoned veteran of attending conferences and expos ... I know how to walk the floor and break through the seemingly overwhelming amount of information that is on display. I know that if you make eye contact you are fair game - we all know this. As a result...
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London: Materials Mecca
London is the epicenter of design that is exploring materiality. I wanted to learn more about emerging trends and approaches to research so I flew to London to check out the scene. I met up with Instagrammer Karin Skogund, a materials librarian at Materialities and...
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Finding Design Inspiration Off the Trade Show Floor
The best thing at NeoCon wasn’t actually at NeoCon; it was at the Art Institute of Chicago. The chair is one of the holy grails of design. British Designer Max Lamb has created more than 400 of them using a variety of materials, both precious and inexpensive, natural...
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