Q+A: How Designers Do Inspiration
Designtex President Susan Lyons leads a team of innovators who others look to for inspiration. Find out what inspires them.
Design is Beauty. Beauty is Democracy.
Known as The Chairman, Italian designer Odo Fioravanti shares his design philosophy and explains how Cavatina brings a human touch to the workplace.
Amsterdam’s Heyligers Celebrates 30 Years: Design Q+A
HEYLIGERS d+p founder, Willem Heyligers, shared how his business and workplace design have evolved in the last 30 years.
SILQ Q+A: Why Do You Need This Chair?
What does SILQ mean? Tell us what’s not there? How fast can we get it? James Ludwig, vice president of Global Design & Engineering for Steelcase, sits down with Interior Design’s editor-in-chief, Cindy Allen, to answer these questions and more. Find out more about SILQ.
Innovating to Reimagine Seating: James Ludwig Q+A
“A true innovation is when you solve something and people say, ‘I didn’t know I wanted that…but, yes, I want that.’” – James Ludwig
Q + A with Tim Brown
He’s the CEO and president of IDEO, the global design consultancy that’s been ranked among the 10 most innovative companies in the world. Who better to talk about how organizations can encourage creativity or kill it?
Tim Brown on Leading Creative Organizations
IDEO’s Tim Brown talks about the three roles leaders have in creatively-competitive organizations and how to assess the creativity of a company.
Q + A with Karin Jironet
The Amsterdam-based expert on leadership discusses why love and power is the next big thing in leadership.
Design Q+A: Firm Reimagines Aging Building
LPA Architects shares stunning photos and the design inspiration behind their new workspace in San Jose, California. Steelcase global research
Q + A with Nic Marks
Happier employees, according to Marks, are more productive and more innovative—and he’s got the stats to back it up. He also developed the influential Happy Planet Index.
Q + A with Ray Oldenburg
The idea of a public, social place outside of home and work has been around for centuries, but it didn’t enter the lexicon as a “third place” until the phenomenon was thoroughly explored by sociologist Ray Oldenburg in his 1989 book, “The Great Good Place.” It hasn’t left the stage since.
Q + A with David Rock
How to think deeply at work, how leaders think, and how the unconscious mind tackles problems that are too big for the conscious mind to solve—these are the kinds of things that David Rock thinks and writes about.