Buyer and Detroit native Craig Sasser says the abandoned hotel will be redeveloped into a zero-energy building
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Environment enables Israel to produce new businesses, enthusiasm that offers Michigan a path to next stage of growth.
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The 10-year-old private company will be profitable starting in the first quarter of 2016. Here’s how CEO Kara Goldin did it.
When Kara Goldin founded Hint Water in 2005, it wasn’t because of a lifelong mission to start a sugarless beverage company.
This House Runs On Poop And Food Waste
Produce your own power, from the comfort of home.
An abandoned farm in rural Spain, a mile from the nearest tiny village, is the unlikely site of cutting-edge energy technology. The new farmhouse under construction on the property will eventually be powered partly by the owners’ poop.
We Had A Script, A Director, And $200,000 In The Bank. What Could Go Wrong?
In Act Three of our series on making a movie: the long road to “action.”
Now that we had our script, a director, and $200,000 in investors’ money in the bank, we were ready to start filming. What our team lacked, however, was someone who actually knew how to make a movie. In other words, the equivalent to a chief operating officer: The right person to help us cinematic newbies scout locations, apply for the necessary permits and insurance coverage, organize equipment rental, rustle up a crew, hire a payroll company, find a casting director who was local and inexpensive, and attend to the thousands of other details that accompany any production.
Viber’s Plan To Win Over America: Attract College Students
Viber has users around the world. Now, with a new advertising campaign, they want to establish themselves in America.
Subway commuters in New York and Boston might notice something unusual in the coming weeks: Entire stations decked out in advertising for an app. Messaging service Viber, which has 664 million users worldwide, but still trails behind competitors in the United States, wants to crack the American market.
Design Leadership: What’s Next?
Design heads at 3M, Intuit, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Philips, and REI highlight 7 areas for future design leaders to consider.
The importance of corporate design leadership is growing fast, which makes me curious: what does the future of design leadership look like? Will this upward momentum continue, and if so, what are the skills needed for future design leaders? To find out, I asked the heads of design at 3M, Intuit, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Philips, and REI individually and as a panel at the Industrial Designers Society of America national conference. Like a design project, I then looked for patterns and synthesized findings.
Copenhagen’s New Bike Bridge Will Be The Craziest Bike Lane Ever Built
Cruise over the water as you hang between two skyscrapers, 200 feet in the air.
Much of Copenhagen’s bike- and pedestrian-centric infrastructure seems wild to us folks on the outside, but the new Copenhagen Gate is wild no matter where you see it from. It’s a pedestrian bridge spanning the entrance to a berth in the city’s harbor, running between two skyscrapers and suspended 213 feet above the waters below.
Your Toolbox Is Hopelessly Inadequate Without Fiskars’s Reengineered Hammer and Machete
An early champion of user-friendly design, Fiskars tackles your toolshed.
“We have a saying here that even the simplest things can be made better or smarter,” says Steve Stokes, a design engineer at Fiskars. The Finnish company, which dates from 1649, was a pioneer of user-friendly design and is best known for its ergonomic scissors and small tools. Its latest products take that high-performance approach to two unexpected products: gardening blades and hammers.
Why Canon Went Skijoring For Its Epic New Winter Ad
Skiiing behind a horse? Sure, why not.
At first it seems like one of those made up XTREME!!! sports born out the mid-’90s, especially for the X-Games. Like skysurfing or street luge. But skijoring has quite a long tradition. The name comes from the Norwegian term for ski driving, and the sport itself was a demonstration sport in the 1928 Winter Olympics. Here, Canon and director Marcus Söderlund give it the epic journey treatment for the band’s ongoing “Come and See” series.
