Design
Short Takes: Stephen Lane
Lane co-founded Item Group and over two decades has built up a dynamic and entrepreneurial design and development firm. Steve focuses on defining and executing new initiatives, both corporate and long-range planning, capitalization and strategic partnerships. Lane thrives as an active leader in the design, entrepreneurial and venture communities, and is an adjunct faculty member at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the department of industrial design.
Paola Antonelli at BIF-5
The MOMA senior curator gives her take on the design process and it's ability to understand the increasingly complex nuances of consumer preference.
Chris Benedict at BIF-3
Benedict doesn't just do "green" architecture. She recently completed a 38-unit new construction project that uses 85% less energy than standard designs...and she did it without subsidy or special grants.
Bill Buxton at BIF-5
Leading designer and Microsoft principal researcher questions why the design of most technology doesn't incorporate important social, cultural and historical perspectives.
Charlie Cannon at BIF-1
Charlie Cannon is an architect by training who uses design thinking as "urban acupuncture" to catalyze community improvement. For the past six years he has developed and refined tools of collaboration in the Rhode Island School of Design's Innovation Studio Program. The Program aims to develop ecologically sound infrastructures such as eco-industrial parks, power plants and municipal waste systems through interdisciplinary teamwork.
Matt Cottam at BIF-3
Cottam is a co-founder of Tellart and serves as the company's CEO and creative director as well as being a part-time faculty at RISD. Cottam's current research and course topics at RISD involve design for Search and Rescue and Disaster Medicine.
Joseph Coughlin at BIF-4
Director of the MIT AgeLab weaves a powerful story about the truth of aging and the social and economic opportunities our country has to make more of, and more for, our elders.
Peter Durand at BIF-2
Graphic Facilitator Peter Durand aptly manages to listen, draw and capture the essence of stories. Although it was the frustration of presenting his work that drove him to create "The Missing Link" a software package and web archive of conference visualizations.
Jason Fried at BIF-3
Fried is the founder and CEO of 37signals. He spearheaded the concept, design, and development of Basecamp, 37signal's web-based project management tool for designers, freelancers, and creative services firms.