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 ...

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.

The upside: Designers thrive on questioning convention–on unearthing solutions to seemingly intractable problems. If 2017 revealed anything, it’s that good design has never mattered more; it’s just ...

There’s no arguing -- planning in order to reach a business goal is essential. But what isn’t as clear are the elements that enable a company to reach their objective. Perhaps one of the most ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JDP : Minato-ku, Tokyo) announced that the Good Design Grand Award for 2023 has been awarded to the “Long house with an engawa”, a ...

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 ...

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.