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Smart Design's European Office to Celebrate Expansion
Fun and Tapas to be had for those attending the 'Studio Warming' party at Smart Design's Barcelona office.
Smart Design Showcases User-Centered Consumer Product Innovations at 2008 MD&M EAST (Booth # 2264)
Addressing a growing trend in well designed and easy-to-use healthcare products and medical devices, Smart Design will showcase best-in-class examples of Universal Design, ergonomics, and user centered design for consumer healthcare at the Medical Device & Manufacturing (MD&M) Show taking place in NYC’s Jacob Javits Center, June 3-7, 2008.
Head Over Heels for Flip!

Smart Design's collaboration with Pure Digital on their new Flip Video Ultra Series has helped launch the camera to great success and critical acclaim.

Smart Design on Judging Panel for Australian Int'l Design Awards

Nasahn Sheppard, Director of Industrial Design at Smart Design, has accepted an invitation to be on the judging panel for the 2008 Australian International Design Awards.

Designers Accord Finds Strong Support From Smart Design
Smart Design enthusiastically supports the development of the Designers Accord, a global initiative surrounding fostering sustainable design.
Design Now! (Taschen Books) Features Smart Design
An "exploration of contemporary design practice" Taschen Books' new publication, Design Now!, includes Smart Design and an in-depth look at user-centric design.

Good News from Good Design Awards

Once again, Smart Design has been honored with four 2007 GOOD DESIGN Awards from The Chicago Athenaeum's Museum of Architecture and Design.

Smart Garners Three IDEA Awards from IDSA/BusinessWeek

With its wide-ranging success in consumer product design, Smart Design has once again been commended by the IDSA and BusinessWeek as recipients of three IDEA Awards. The 2007 awardees were announced today in BusinessWeek.

2007 National Design Awards -- Smart Design
The 2007 Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards have honored Smart Design for its extensive and innovative body of work in product design
Smart Design Reinvents an Icon: The New York City Taxi Cab
As an integral part of the Taxi 07 project, Smart Design will reveal an innovative makeover of the beloved New York taxi at New York International Auto Show, April 6-15, 2007.
red dot Design Awards 2007
Smart Design receives two red dot Product Design Awards, including a "best of the best" for the OXO Good Grips Utility Knife
iF Awards 2007
Smart Design is proud to announce that it is the recipient of three 2007 iF Product Design Awards, and has participated in iF’s special exhibit on Universal Design at this year's CeBIT Conference.
Design and Gender: Thinking About Sex
How to please a woman? The Femme Den explores the underdeveloped opportunity for good design that speaks to the emotions, desires, and lifestyles of today's female consumers.
Good Design 2006
2006 Good Design Product Awards bestows honors on six Smart Design projects
In-depth Interview with Smart Design co-founder, Tom Dair
The Design Directory on Core77.com recently posted an exclusive interview with Smart Design's co-founder, Tom Dair.
Smart Design Meets Art/Design at ZeroOne Festival
Smart Design creates South Hall exhibit space for ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge & the Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA 2006)
Smart Design Featured on CNBC
Top Design Consultancy Profiled on Network’s Primetime Show "On the Money"...
Smart Design Strikes Gold with Design of HP Scanner and Vicks Thermometer
Winning a total of five 2004 IDEA awards, Smart consistently recognized by BusinessWeek among most honored design consultancies in the world...
Smart Design, You’re Hired!
Award-winning design consultancy tapped for NBC's top-rated reality show "The Apprentice" brings design thinking to mainstream America...
Smart Honored with Industry Awards
Work recognized by MDEA, HOW International and Good Design™ competitions...
Smart Wins Seven Awards in the 2002 Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA)
Each year Business Week magazine co-sponsors, with the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), the IDEA competition-the most coveted awards in the ID industry...
Smart Design SF Celebrates its One-Year Anniversary on July 18, 2002
This July, Smart Design is celebrating the one-year anniversary of its San Francisco studio...
Smart is Honored with Four Design Awards from I.D. Magazine's Annual Competition
"This is the best we've ever done in I.D.'s annual design competition," says Scott Henderson, Smart Director of Industrial Design...
Smart Design Wins HOW Magazine's "Best of Show" Award for Brand Identity Program
Smart Design's Brand Identity Program for the upscale luggage company Briggs & Riley was awarded the Best of Show award in HOW Magazine's 10th Annual International Design Competition...
"...but it doesn't taste like marketing." Design-Mediated Consumer Research Techniques
On September 18, 2002, Melody Roberts, Director of Design Research, and Juliana Chen, Senior Business Factors Specialist, will be speaking in NYC at the "Research & Testing for Brand Initiatives" conference hosted by the Institute for International Research (IIR)...
Smart Design Donates $1,000 to Winning Pratt Students
Smart Design, a great supporter of design education, recently volunteered their expertise to conduct a class called Directed Research for the Pratt Institute’s Graduate Industrial Design course...
Democracy By Design: Internal Project Leads to Federal Assignment
Soon after the 2000 Election debacle in November, several designers, researchers and engineers from Smart Design gathered to discuss how the voting process had failed the American public...
Smart Products Part of Permanent Museum Collection
Smart Design currently has two products featured in the Chicago Athenaeum’s Good Design Show...
Smart Design Takes Top Honors for Industrial Design Excellence
Out of 1,078 entries, the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) announced today that the IDEA jury honored 40 designs with the Gold Award—two of which were awarded to Smart Design...
Smart Design Introduces Thumbscript: Universal Language for Mobile Communications Products
Dr. Jeffery Smith came to Smart Design, a product design and development lab in Manhattan, with a template for a new alphabet that could be used on a standard telephone keypad...