Category: 2020

More fun with the Condé Nast / Epicurious gang as host of the Well Equipped series. Episode 9, this time exploring salad gadgets: 5 Salad Kitchen Gadgets Improved By Design Expert | Well Equipped | Epicurious

Thanks Theresa Christine Johnson for the Dieline article Packaging the Pill: The History of Birth Control Packaging Design and the shout-out mentioning Martha Davis, Larry Lambelet at Ortho-McNeil and me in the development of the DialPak III birth control system, 20+ years ago. After spending time with many women identified as most-at-risk birth control users,...Continue reading

GovComms, a podcast for government communicators produced by contentgroup in Canberra, Australia, explores the future of government communications. Host David Pembroke holds conversations with innovators around the world. I was invited to be the guest on Episode 73: Embracing Complexity, posted August 17 2020. In it we discuss creative approaches to innovation and the importance of understanding the full width...Continue reading

As a follow-up to my Fast Company article on masks a few days earlier, I discussed masks and eyewear fogging with Elizabeth Segran for her April 7 2020 article. Surgical masks are intended to be worn in hospitals. Even in that environment eyewear will fog, caused by exhaled breath leaking around the bridge of the...

Another video shot for Epicurious’ Well Equipped series. This one on avocado gadgets. As before, and as obvious, no script or rehearsal. The Epicurious team finds the gadgets and springs them on me to evaluate. Epicurious: 5 Avocado Kitchen Gadgets Improved By Design This is Episode 8 of Season 1, and the most recent video...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, I led a research team investigating the design of N95 masks. Masks are essential for for protecting healthcare workers and all of us in general. But masks aren’t foolproof. That’s because many of them are poorly designed. More here: Fast Company: Why masks aren’t better at protecting us from virusesContinue reading

Life on Wheels, a documentary film by David Hodge and Hi-Jin Kang Hodge, expertly covers the transformation taking place in transportation. The film includes interviews with a number of experts in the field. I’m honored to be included among the interviewees. The film can be seen on Amazon Prime, or see the Life on Wheel...Continue reading

  Epicurious posted the fifth video in the Well Equipped YouTube series. It’s seafood gadgets for this one: 5 Seafood Gadgets Improved By Design Expert. Here’s the premise for the series: the Epicurious team selects an array of kitchen gadgets, usually odd kitchen gadgets. They then spring them on me to try out and comment,...Continue reading