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Smart Design Exhibits at MD&M East
Smart Design will exhibit for the first time at the largest medical device show in the US.
Designers Share Insights at Next Generation Product Design Forum in Barcelona
On June 3-4, twenty speakers, including Smart Design's Dan Formosa, will be sharing their experiences in successful product design at the Next Generation Product Design Forum organized by GBG.
Dan Formosa Featured Speaker at ASU Design Research Symposium

From Here to There: Design Research Symposium, hosted by Arizona State University's College of Design, will take place April 11-13th and will feature Smart Design's Dan Formosa as a plenary speaker.

Smart Design Hits Portland in Design Green Now West Coast Tour

Richard Whitehall, Director of Industrial Design, and one of Smart Design's leaders in sustainable design, will be a featured panelist at the Design Green Now event in Portland, OR on April 4th.

"Spotlight on Design: Innovation in New York’s Streets" with Davin Stowell

Davin Stowell, Founder and CEO of Smart Design, will take part in a panel discussion on how urban design impacts New Yorker's lives on Thursday, Feb 28th at 6:30pm.

Clay Burns Speaks at Pratt 's FOCUS THE NATION Teach-In on Sustainable Design

In an effort to lead a discussion on environmentally friendly design and sustainable practices, Pratt Institute is holding a Teach-In on in NYC. VP Clay Burns will represent Smart Design on a panel held Jan 31st.

Smart Design Hosts Studio Party for Connecting '07 World Design Congress
Smart Design's office in San Francisco will open its studio to the attendees of the IDSA/ICSID World Design Congress -- Connecting '07 -- on Thursday, October 18th.
Smart's Designs Exhibited at San Francisco Airport Museum
Three of Smart's successful product designs are included in the new "Prototype to Product" exhibit now on at the San Francisco Airport Museum
On “Diversity, Sustainability, and the Future of Integrated Design”
Smart Design's VP to present on “Diversity, Sustainability, and the Future of Integrated Design” at Product Design Forum in Barcelona, May 31st.
Beyond a Beautiful Strategy
Smart Design to speak at the Design Management Institute's 19th International Brand Design Conference (June 6 - 8, 2007), with a talk entitled, "Beyond a Beautiful Strategy," which focuses on tools, methods and team structures for bringing a strategy to life.
Peeking Into the Thriving Design Relationship between Smart Design and OXO at 11th Annual FUSE: Brand Identity and Package Design Conference
Smart Design CEO Davin Stowell and OXO President Alex Lee are featured speakers at the 11th Annual FUSE Brand Identity and Package Design Conference on April 16-18, 2007 in New York.
Smart Design to Present at London’s “Include 2007: Designing With People”
Spreading the word on some ground-breaking Smart Design projects at the “Include 2007: International Conference on Inclusive Design” sponsored by the Royal College of Art in the UK. The Femme Den will present their 5-points strategy paper, "Design & Gender: Thinking About Sex”, and a Smart Design Team from our Barcelona Office will present a graphic poster exploring a comprehensive new product platform for large format printers developed with Hewlett Packard.
“Featured Studio” Smart Design to Present Insights at 4th Annual Thinking Creatively Conference
Smart Design is excited to be the Featured Studio at this year’s 4th Annual Thinking Creatively conference.
Close Encounters: A Case Study in Design Collaboration
In a joint session at the upcoming FutureDesignDays Conference in Sweden, Blake McEldowney (Smart Design) and Jordi Morillo (Hewlett Packard) will talk about their experience of working side-by-side to create alignment between design, engineering and customer research
Social Responsibility Through Design: Smart Design Calls for a Wide Angle View of Universal Design
At the upcoming 2nd International Conference for Universal Design in Kyoto, Smart Design will be encouraging designers and manufacturers to rethink the scope of Universal Design – widening it to a broader topic of Social Responsibility.
Designing For the “Whole Person”
Tim Wallack and Tucker Fort from Smart Design to present insight on designing for the “Whole Person” at the Sarasota International Design Summit 2006 in Sarasota, FL, October 9-11.
G-G-Generation of Boomers
Smart Design’s Design Research & Planning team offer insight into designing for the Baby Boomer Generation at the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC) in Portland, OR, Sept 24-26.