Language barriers? Not between countries..
This week STBY is in Hong Kong to visit UXHK and the global get-together of our Reach Network for Global Design Research. We had a panel discussion with Reach partners…
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Interview in Dude
The latest edition of Dude (the Dutch designers magazine published by BNO) is curated by Ellen Schindler from Kossman.dejong and includes an interview with STBY.…
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…
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…
Finding global common ground in telecoms
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?
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…
Defining ‘Smart’: Using Video to Explore Smartphone Usage
Do people in different countries have different ideas as to what a smartphone can do for them? In the latest of a series of projects conducted for a major telecoms company,…
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.
DIY Toolkit
Initiated by Nesta and made possible by The Rockefeller Foundation, STBY and Quicksand have edited and designed the DIY Toolkit. DIY stands for ’Development Impact and You’. The toolkit is primarily meant for practitioners in international development.....
Quicksand Celebrates 10 Years
Our REACH partners Quicksand are celebrating their 10 year anniversary, and we wanted to congratulate them on these years of remarkable design research work and…
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…
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.