Tag Archives: Reach

Be a Fellow at UnBox 2012

  Our Indian Reach partner, Quicksand, had some exciting news this week: the launch of their 2012 UnBox Fellowships. UnBox is a festival celebrating interdisciplinary processes and experiences that shape contemporary thought and action. UnBox invites participants from all walks of life— practitioners, students, educators and institutions, who are redefining professional, social and cultural engagement in [...]

GOOD’11 Programme Released!

With a month to go before our first conference ‘The Great Outdoors of Design’ gets underway, the full list of topics we’ll be looking at has now been finalised. Our intention with this event has always been to aim for a more intimate and collaborative atmosphere than is found at many conferences; we really want [...]

The Great Outdoors of Design: An Interactive Conference Hosted by Reach

These are exciting times here at STBY, as today we can announce that come Friday September 23rd we’ll be hosting our first conference with Reach, the global network of design research companies of which STBY are a co-founder. Held in conjunction with the London Design Festival,”The Great Outdoors of Design” (or ‘GOOD’, as we increasingly like [...]

Investigating Written Communication: Working With Reach and Nokia to Find Global Common Ground

Do different people in different companies have the same conversations? Is the language people use influenced by context, culture, technology – or even a mixture of all three?

Global Design Research

Being known as a world-class specialist in Design Research, many of our clients have asked us to deliver this kind of research on an international scale. Rather than developing this as an in-house service, we have initiated a global network with other specialists in design research around the world.

Design research in Brazil

Geke and Bas have been in Brazil for a few weeks, traveling across the country visiting friends at our partner company Feel the Future and elsewhere. The vibe in Brazil is different from Europe we feel, in that there is a clear understanding here that the economy needs innovation to spur its growth, and that design has to play a vital role in that growth.

Presentation at N2010 in Brazil

STBY Co-founder and Strategy Director Bas Raijmakers will be in Brazil this July speaking at the N2010 design festival.

Reach partners meeting up

Our colleagues and friends from Apogee in Hong Kong, Jo Wong and Daniel Szuk, visited us in London this week. It was really lovely to have them around at the studio for a day and to engage in all sorts of interesting discussions over lunch. Wish this could happen more often… As partners in the [...]

Global Design Research Network

As many clients have asked us for research that covers local situations in many different countries, we thought that it would be good to formalize our network of design researchers around the world. Over the years we’ve built up an extensive network of people who work as as design researchers in different places around the [...]