News Archive for 2010
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January 20, 2010So You Want to Innovate?
Ziba founder, Sohrab Vossoughi, considers resourceful innovations to revolutionize the health care industry.
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February 23, 2010SXSW Preview: “The History of the Button”
Ziba’s Bill deRouchey shares his expertise on the history and future of the all-important button.
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March 08, 2010Sustainable Design's Future is the Pacific Northwest's Present
Ziba’s Debbie Driscoll on how the Pacific Northwest is leading the way for design’s sustainable future.
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March 12, 2010The Perks of Portland
Ziba headquarters feautred in this article on Portland as a design-driven city, full of creatively designed bars, hotels, shops and buildings.
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March 19, 2010Four Ways to Keep the Museum Experience Relevant
The final part of Steve McCallion’s four-part series examines the success of the recently closed China Design Now exhibition at Portland Art Museum.
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April 02, 2010Imation Brings Dead Brands Back to Life
Ziba designs new consumer electronics for Memorex and TDK to help revive the Imation brands; identifies opportunities for growth.
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April 09, 2010Transportation in 2020
In 10 years, your commute will be short, cheap and, dare we say, fun. Ziba’s Steve McCallion considers how American’s attitudes about mobility will change by 2020.
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April 29, 2010No More Doors
Steve McCallion explains how Ziba’s new building is a physical manifestation of the company’s values. Wide passageways and a lack of private offices result in unexpected conversations and spontaneous collaborations.
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May 24, 2010AIGA 365/31 Winners Announced
Ziba has been awarded two AIGA awards, one for the Ziba Lobby installation and one for the recent Li-Ning Retail Design.
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May 26, 2010Reinventing Memorial Day: Beyond the Mattress Blowout Sale
In the first of a three part series exploring the meaning of Memorial Day, Steve McCallion asks, Can we make Memorial Day relevant again?
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May 27, 2010Reinventing Memorial Day: Creating Inconvenience and Relevance
In part two of this three part series, Steve McCallion explores ways of bringing meaning back to the national holiday.
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May 28, 2010Reinventing Memorial Day: Solutions for Silence and Sacrifice
In the final installation of his series on restoring meaning to Memorial Day, Steve McCallion presents solutions from quieting our social networks in observance to asking companies to celebrate country over commerce.
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June 16, 2010SLA Recognizes Five Early-Career Information Professionals as Rising Stars
Ziba’s information specialist, Reece Dano, was honored with a Rising Star Award at the Special Library Association 2010 Annual Conference, New Orleans, June 13-16.
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June 16, 2010Sustainable Brands '10 Closes With the Promise Realized for Game-Changing Innovations and Insights
Ziba’s Eric Park spoke at the SB’10 conference in Monterey, CA about the role brands play in shaping and supporting the American Dream.
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June 23, 20102010 IDEA Winners Announced
Ziba Design has won four IDEA awards this year: GOLD for Li-Ning Design Strategy, SILVER for China Design Now and Lexmark Desktop UI Strategy and BRONZE for Phillips Trillogy100 Ventilator. A big congratulations to all involved.
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July 02, 2010A Modest Proposal: The New "Declaration of Interdependence"
Nearly 240 years after the Declaration of Independence was drafted, Steve McCallion asks, “Are we really free?”. Public debt, a collapsing public education system, obesity and foreign oil dependency suggests we are not. In this article, Steve proposes a new declaration that will take the U.S. into the next 100 years.
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July 07, 2010Redesigning the Health-Care System
Sohrab Vossoughi illustrates why health-care executives need to take a leaf from Apple’s playbook and consider a patient’s experience with the whole health-care system.
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July 13, 2010Jobs Watch: A Fresh Idea for Portland
Sohrab Vossoughi has been working with the Portland Development Commission to create the first West Coast materials library. Find out how this new resource could help local design companies and attract new firms.
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July 14, 2010Portland Materials Library Announces its First Officers
The Portland Center for Design and Innovation has elected Ziba’s executive managing director, Sia Vossoughi, as president of the new materials library. The nonprofit is now searching for an executive director of their own.
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July 26, 2010ID-ing P-town
In the run up to the IDSA (Industrial Designers Society of America) Conference that will be hosted in Portland next week, the Portland Monthly speaks to Sohrab Vossoughi about the city’s future in industrial design.
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July 26, 2010Lust List
Portland’s industrial designers produce beautiful objects with everyday uses. See Portland Monthly’s selected top 15 here, including the PartyCube, designed by Ziba for client Memorex.
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August 03, 2010Sohrab Vossoughi on Portland, DIY, and the IDSA Conference
In this interview with the Oregonian, Sohrab explains why Portland is the perfect location for this week’s DIY focused conference.
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August 04, 2010Adams to speak at IDSA Conference in Portland
The IDSA’s annual international conference kicks off tonight at 7 p.m with an introduction from Mayor Sam Adams. Sohrab Vossoughi tells that this is the first time in 20 years of attending the conference that he has seen a mayor speak.
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August 06, 2010Women in Industrial Design: Where my Ladies at?
In light of the 2010 IDSA conference, Alissa Walker discusses the lack of female presence in Industrial Design. Ziba’s Karen Reuther shares her view of the industry and how its evolution could attract more female designers. Alissa also talks with Julia Carpenter about Ziba’s speaker selection for the conference.
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August 07, 2010DIY and the Death of Design
In an interview with Monocle, Sohrab Vossoughi speaks on Portland’s vibrant DIY culture and discusses how freedom and experimentation are influencing the design world.
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August 09, 2010IDSA + DIY
Following last week’s IDSA conference, Ann Hudner considers three speakers with very different points of view on DIY Design – Grace Bonney of Design*Sponge, John Jay of Wieden + Kennedy and Jay Rogers of Local Motors.
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September 03, 2010Reinventing Labor Day: Bringing Back Meaning
Ziba’s Steve McCallion explores the history of Labor Day and how this national holiday has become meaningless, what we can do to fix it, and what it means to be an American Worker in our current economy.
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September 13, 2010VMSD Retail Awards: Honorable Mention
Ziba’s work with Li-Ning has received an Honorable Mention from VMSD in their Rennovation – Speciality Store, Sales Area under 10,000 Square Feet category.
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September 23, 2010OEN Honors Startups and Entrepreneurs
Ziba founder and president, Sohrab Vossoughi, was honored with the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network’s Individual Achievement Award at the organization’s annual awards dinner last night.
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September 23, 2010On the Scene: The 2010 OEN Tom Holce Entrepreneurship Awards
The Oregon Entrepreneurs Network awards Sohrab Vossoughi with this year’s individual achievement award.
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September 24, 2010Ziba Design’s Vossoughi Welcomes the Challenge of ‘Do or Die’
Portland Business Journal speaks to Sohrab Vossoughi about what drives him in his work.
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October 08, 2010Procter & Gamble Recognizes Top Performing Global Partners
P&G recognizes Ziba for performance, collaboration and partnership. Ziba has worked with P&G for more than 15 years.
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October 22, 2010The Real Lessons of the Gap Debacle: Logos aren't Key Anymore
Steve McCallion explains why companies should be looking beyond superficial, static graphics and examining the social brand platform, instead.
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November 08, 2010Li-Ning Taps into Chinese Youth Culture to Regain the Lead in its Own Local Sporting Goods Market
Ziba Creative Director Jeremy Kaye and Li-Ning General Manager Jay Li speak with VMSD on recent Li-Ning branding and retail strategy.
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December 02, 2010Design Forum / PDX Brings Job Hopes
Ziba’s executive managing director, Sia Vossoughi, talks to Oregon Business about the Design Forum/PDX’s goals to help local small, local firms.
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December 06, 2010Yes We Can!
Ziba’s Sohrab Vossoughi talks to Viewpoint about the opportunities to be found in the DIY movement.
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December 17, 2010TDK Audio System by Ziba
mocoloco.com features the soon to be released 2011 Audio Lineup for TDK Life on Record, designed by Ziba. A two-speaker and three-speaker boombox, turntable, headphones and SoundCube bring the brand’s heritage into the digital age.
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December 20, 201030 Ideas for the Future
Sohrab Vossoughi joins local leaders and innovators in a discussion about the future of Oregon business.
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December 24, 2010Hong Kong Design Center Awards
Wallpaper features this year’s Design for Asia Award winners, including Ziba’s rebranding of Li-Ning.