Photo by Digital Vision./DigitalVision / Getty Images How does a business adapt in a constantly shifting economic, political, and social landscape? How does it maintain a competitive advantage? Surfing. Three basic skills are necessary to…
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Landscape Reading List
Interested in reading more about landscape, natural processes, and the impact of humans on the environment? Here’s a selection of books that I have read over the past few years that I found useful: Changes…
Architecture, Nature, and the CEO
Glenn Murcutt is an Australian architect whose body of work is the expression of the continuity that exists between nature and architecture. His work does not mimic natural forms, but rather makes use of its…
The Intersection of Business and Design
Sifting through various media and by maintaining awareness of one’s surroundings, one can see patterns and trends emerging in various areas such as brands, aesthetics, words, graphics, architecture, politics, speech habits, and fashion. Working in…
The Language of Landscape and Business
Anne Whiston Spirn speaks of the language of the landscape as parts of speech, each with separate functions and associations. “Flowing, like a verb, is expressed in both water and path. Water and path, like…
Emerging Market: Social Innovation Design Firms
With design firms being purchased by larger corporate entities more frequently, what kinds of firms are left to push the envelope of design? I believe that it is the social design innovation firm. This is where…