The Double-Diamond Design Process: Inside the Genius and Madness of a Designer’s Mind By: Stacey R Stormo For centuries, the model for conducting business was essentially boiled down to the following: Step 1: Come up with an idea. Step 2: Bring your idea to market. Step 3: Put your idea…

So let’s start with our typical recycling ritual. Every week you take your cans, bottles, cardboard and plastics and put them in the blue bin. You take them to the curb and the next morning they disappear to a wonderful, mysterious place where they are magically turned into new products…

This year, perhaps more than ever, the holidays feel pretty confined. As many of us are on lockdown, we likely won’t be sharing the holidays with anyone outside our own homes (except for the occasional virtual celebration, of course). …

Millennials sure love their nostalgia, don’t they? From TV show reboots to vinyl records, people in their twenties, thirties and forties want nothing more than to escape adulthood and sink back into the comfort of their childhoods. However, how far is too far? When it comes to fashion, there are…

The other day I was listening to a podcast I really like called How to Citizen. Baratunde Thurston’s goal in creating this podcast is to reimagine the word citizen as a verb, in an effort to “reclaim our collective power”. After I finished the episode, I started wondering what would…

According to this RTS article, the United States is the global leader in food waste, with Americans discarding nearly 40 million tons of food every year. That’s 80 billion pounds of food and equates to more than $161 billion! …

By: Stacey R. Stormo Everyone is intrigued by the Joshua Tree. About 3 million people per year visit Joshua Tree National Park near Palm Springs, CA to get a glimpse of this unusual looking flora. There’s just something about the Joshua Tree that people find fascinating enough to inspire works…

A Look Into the Benefits of Biophilic Design By: Stacey R. Stormo Imagine you walk into a building (maybe a hospital or an office building). The first thing you notice are the white walls and stark LED lighting. You sit down, maybe grab a magazine to flip through while you…

A Look Into Nature’s New Panacea By: Stacey Stormo Over the past few years, seaweed has become very trendy. What was once a yucky, slimy thing we peeled off our toes at the beach is now so much more. We enjoy it wrapped around our favorite sushi, sprinkle it on…