When RECORD first launched the Good Design is Good Business Awards in 1997, attitudes toward the impact of design on profit were changing. According to the editors at the time, corporations and ...

For a designer, “ugliness” hasn’t historically been something to strive for. Beauty has largely been a no-brainer when it comes to what’s desirable, or what constitutes “good” design. Yet, culturally, ...

When a design doesn’t work, it often draws more attention to itself than when it works perfectly. A wobbly shopping cart, a flimsy potato peeler, a puzzling highway sign: These are common nuisances.

Born to two architects, Gadi Amit was already playing with design before he could form full sentences. But at 23, he decided to make it his vocation, so he went to design school. Today, Amit is the ...

Investing in design makes a fundamental difference in the performance of a company, a new study by consulting firm McKinsey has found. The study looked at the design capabilities of 300 publicly ...

Avatar Robot Cafe and Avatar Robot OriHime won the Good Design Grand Award as the symbolic design of the year TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Japan Institute of Design Promotion, the organizer of the Good ...

The recipients of the Good Design Award 2011 were recently announced. Both yotsuya tenera and ReNOA Motosumiyoshi won the award for their design of an apartment house and the renovation of complex ...

In 1958, the American radical sociologist C. Wright Mills was invited to address the International Design Conference, in Aspen. The lecture he gave, “Man in the Middle: The Designer,” criticized a ...

Good Design Is Good Business An annual awards program recognizing architectural solutions that were instrumental to the client’s growth and success.