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July 10, 2018 by

Design News You Can Use—Health 2.0 Edition

Looking for a major dose of news you can use? In this edition of Design News You Can Use, Workplace Strategist Joelle Jach explores brain health, productivity and practicing what you preach. Guess who’s back: While the workplace as we know it has changed a lot in recent years, there’s still something to be said […]

June 27, 2018 by CallisonRTKL

On Resilience: Chicago Client Open House 2018

One of the best pieces of advice I ever heard was something along the lines of: “If you want to appear smart, surround yourself with smarter people.” That’s what we did last Thursday evening, June 21, when we invited clients, consultants, and contractors to the CRTKL Chicago office to talk candidly about “resilience”— the topic […]

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June 26, 2018 by Michael Trenary

The Power of Wallflowers: How appealing to introverts can make the retail experience better for everyone

CallisonRTKL’s Michael Trenary discusses why retailers should focus on this untapped market. Introverts compose up to 50 percent of the population. But retailers and other service providers rarely cater to them. With brick-and-mortar retailers so focused on creating big, ostentatious, social experiences to draw customers back into the store, introverts like myself are often left […]

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June 22, 2018 by CallisonRTKL

The Art of Sustainable Density: Light Gauge Framing

The din of screw guns fills the air as craftsmen bustle in coordination. Upon entering the factory floor, I was amazed by the orderliness of it all: rows upon rows of panels stacked and prepared for shipping and brightly colored tags adorning the gleaming panels, each one directing the shipment to its final destination at […]

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June 21, 2018 by CallisonRTKL

It Starts with a Spark: Fostering an Inclusive Culture

This is the second blog post in our second series of exploratory posts by some of CallisonRTKL’s resident design experts on how design impacts the guest experience—from hotels to workplaces, retail stores, hospitals and everywhere in between—and the common elements and strategies we leverage to create spaces that are people-centric, experiential and memorable. There’s a […]

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