INNOVATION: Spring 2007

The Big-Box Effect

Guest Editor: Scott Dobias

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Here is the table of contents for Spring 2007 issue of INNOVATION. Articles highlighted in red are available to anyone as PDFs.

BIG-BOX RETAILING

  • Designing in the Big Box
    by Scott Dobias
  • Retailing. Where is the Design?
    by Michael Wurth, IDSA
  • Leveraging the Power of Design Private-Label Product Design
    by Chris Conley, IDSA
  • Retuling OfficeMax 
    by Michael Kitz
  • Live. Shop. Play. The Emerging Trend in Rural Box-Store Communities
    by Craig Vogel, FIDSA
  • Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
    by Curt Bailey, IDSA

FEATURES

  • Green, Clean and MEAN! The 2007 North American International Auto Show
    by Luciano Hernandez, IDSA, Barry Hutzel and Charles Marzette
  • Designing Innovation
    by Michael Megalli
  • For the Birds Assessing the Effect of Ethnographic Observation on Creativity
    by Tamara Christensen

IN EVERY ISSUE

  • From the Editor
    by Gregg Davis, IDSA
  • Patrons of Industrial Design Excellence
  • Open Call: Design Concepts