Twofold SpacesFrom Gretchen’s Desk: Happy, Sad, Inspired, AngryOne of my mentors, industrial designer Mark Dziersk, died unexpectedly at the end of January. Mark was a graduate school instructor of…Jul 18, 2020Jul 18, 2020
Twofold SpacesFrom Gretchen’s Desk: My Design SparkMarch 5 was the annual National Industrial Design Day here in the US (June 29 was World Industrial Design Day, WIDD). This year on March 5…Jul 9, 2020Jul 9, 2020
Twofold SpacesFrom Gretchen’s Desk: GratitudeLast week I attended a delightful and inspiring all-day, Zoom-facilitated Design for Disruption design summit from Yeh Ideology. The…Jul 3, 2020Jul 3, 2020
Twofold SpacesFrom Gretchen’s Desk: Breaking Your Cycles While Flattening Society’s CurveIn very early April this year, Gallup put out the results of a recent poll of theirs tied to working from home. Of course…May 7, 2020May 7, 2020
Twofold SpacesFrom Gretchen’s Desk: Thinking Outside the BoxIt’s approaching six weeks that we in Illinois have been under shelter-in-place orders. I’ve been doing a good job of adhering to that…Apr 30, 2020Apr 30, 2020
Twofold SpacesFrom Gretchen’s Desk: The Trust FactorTrust in their teams — to get the work done — has long been written about as a key to making remote/ flexible work…plausible/ acceptable/…Apr 27, 2020Apr 27, 2020
Twofold SpacesFrom Gretchen’s Desk: A Matter of Personal StyleLast year at this time, I was playing with the outline of a convocation speech I’d been invited to give at the University of Illinois…Apr 20, 2020Apr 20, 2020
Twofold SpacesFrom Gretchen’s Desk: 2+2=5Design has been my North Star for decades and product design, specifically. It was my original path into Herman Miller where I began my…Mar 21, 2020Mar 21, 2020
