Patrick Whitney's first regular column for the Innovation & Design section of BusinessWeek.com, "Mind-Reading Skills for Businesses", introduces four ways companies can reliably innovate using design principles: Discovering users' needs, finding patterns in seemingly chaotic research, visualizing innovations early in the development process, and creating interrelated systems of solutions.

Chris Conley comments on the iPod accessories business for "We Got the iBeat" by Clint Swett, a story about Sacramento design firm Design Annex and its flashy new iPod headphones.

The Institute of Design is included, along with Stanford's new design program, in "Tomorrow's B-School? It Might Be A D-School", about the emergence of a new, business-focused group of design programs and their alliances with business schools. The story is part of the magazine's launch of their new "Innovation & Design" on-line channel: www.businessweek.com/innovate/. Patrick Whitney is quoted in the lead-off story, "Get Creative! How to build innovative companies", about the new "Creativity Economy". Larry Keeley is profiled as one of seven leading "innovation gurus": "Mr. Metrics".

The June issue of I.D. Magazine contains a special eight-page supplement on Design & Business, which was co-developed and co-authored with Institute of Design students, alumni and faculty, including Patrick Whitney, Chris Conley, Chris Bernard, Chris Cunningham, Cobie Everdell, Denis Weil, Matt Hamlin and Seonghee Park. Download article (PDF , 1.35MB)

The June issue of Fast Company is their annual Masters of Design issue, and features profiles of ID board members Larry Keeley and Jim Hackett, and director Patrick Whitney (among dozens of other interesting bits.) Kudos to editor-in-chief John Byrne (who spoke at the 2005 Institute of Design Strategy Conference) for leading the way in business writing about design. [NOTE: the access code for this issue is "fcjunedesign"].

The Institute of Design's nine-month executive program is included in an article on "The Business of Design" by Bill Breen, about how the North American economy is increasingly turning towards a "design economy" where creativity and innovation are key. [NOTE: the access code for this article is "fcaprilextreme"].

Patrick Whitney is interviewed about the power of design for Rotman, the magazine of the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management. Download article (PDF , 298.46KB)

ID and its new MDM program for non-designers is the main focus of Bruce Nussbaum's Global Economy editorial, "Getting Schooled in Innovation", about smart executives turning to design to help them innovate and compete against low cost competitors in emerging economies. Download article (PDF , 76.89KB)

Patrick Whitney is one of six technology trendsetters profiled in Forbes' annual E-Gang issue. Download article (PDF , 642.78KB)

Blood Valve and its inventor, Adriano Galvao, were profiled in the business section of the Sun-Times in "New device to draw blood makes it easier on everyone." Download article (PDF , 817.74KB)

Metropolis covers ID's transfer of design methods to the corporate world through sponsored research and placing graduates in "Design's Secret Weapon". Download article (PDF , 1.51MB)

Two ID projects are featured in "Product Design 101", a survey of top design programs worldwide. Download article (JPG , 648.28KB)

ID is listed, along with Stanford and Northwestern programs, as one design program adding business courses to its curriculum, in "From Drab to Fab" by Jason Tanz, about the increasing importance of design for large companies. (See second to last paragraph).

ID's Design for the Base of the Pyramid project to improve economic viability and daily life in urban slums is covered in this article about Indian techno-entrepreneur and ID Board member Sam Pitroda. Download article (JPG , 64.35KB)

Patrick Whitney is quoted in the cover story of the international edition of BusinessWeek, "Designed in Italy? No, in China", by Frederick Balfour, about China's emerging importance in industrial design.

"Imagining a Better Kitchen", a survey of high-tech kitchen gadgetry, leads off with the Cukit project from ID's fall 2002 product design workshop. Download article (PDF , 1.36MB)

Feature article, "An On/Off Relationship" by Sean O'Leary, about the research project's culminating ideation workshop in December 2002. Download article (PDF , 2.18MB)

Patrick Whitney's article, "Global Companies in Local Markets", about global design research and the Global Companies in Local Markets research initiative at ID, translated to Chinese. Download article (PDF , 3.59MB)

Interview with Victoria Lautman about "On/Off". (Click the audio link next to "mobile technology"; requires RealAudio player. Jay's segment starts at the 4:18 mark.)

On-line article that compares the research project to "reality TV".

Chris Conley was interviewed for a story about workspace design, "Perking productivity."