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Innovation Insights: An Interview with David C. Aaronson, Digital Inbound

By Vicki Matranga, Design Programs + Services Learn how to develop and launch the best products for your business. Educational sessions during the four days of the 2014 International Home + Housewares Show offer FREE executive-level seminars. To help you plan your time at the Show, we give you a preview of the presentations at the Innovation Theater in the Lakeside…

Discovering Design: Tweet Tweet Home, LLC

By Vicki Matranga Design Programs +Services Get to know the people behind the stylish products that will appear at the 2014 International Home + Housewares Show in Discover Design. We’ll be posting conversations with exhibitors to give you a glimpse of the inspirations, influences and ideas that go into creating the exciting products that you’ll see in March at McCormick…

HYATT REGENCY CHICAGO – Everything you expect. More than you imagined.

The new Hyatt Regency Chicago. Located in the heart of downtown just steps from the Magnificent Mile, come experience the new Hyatt Regency Chicago. The hotel dedicated over $168 million to enhancing all aspects of their guest experience, including a welcoming lobby, engaging check-in pods and new restaurant concepts and menus. Come experience the dramatic transformation. If…

2014 International Home + Housewares Show Sold Out

ROSEMONT, Ill. (Jan. 7, 2014)—The 2014 International Home + Housewares Show is sold out less than 10 weeks before opening day, according to the International Housewares Association, the Show’s owner and operator. The show begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 15 and closes at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, March 18. “This is the earliest the Show has been sold out on exhibit space and is a…

Discovering Design: Big Dragon Studios LLC/Zeewok LLC

Discovering Design: Big Dragon Studios LLC/Zeewok LLC By Vicki Matranga Design Programs + Services Get to know the people behind the stylish products that will appear at the 2014 International Home + Housewares Show in Discover Design. We’ll be posting conversations with exhibitors to give you a glimpse of the inspirations, influences and ideas that go into creating the…

HECNA: The Two Latin Americas

Companies who sell to Latin America or those who wish to in the future will be interested in David Luhnow’s essay in this weekend’s Wall Street Journal entitled “The Two Latin Americas.” As Luhnow says, “There are two Latin Americas right now. The first is a bloc of countries—including Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela—that faces the Atlantic Ocean, mistrusts globalization and…

Going “GREEN” in Stores

There is hardly a single home or business publication that one picks up today that doesn’t have an article or two about “greening and sustainability”. Those two words are ubiquitous: seen, heard and talked about everywhere. More American U.S. consumers are looking for “green” products and green products sold in green environments. For store designers, the goal is to create and…

IHA Innovation Awards: Sensor Mirror Illuminates and Interacts

by Vicki Matranga Design Programs + Services The 2014 International Home + Housewares Show will feature the winners of the 3rd annual IHA Innovation Awards. From thousands of new products on view at the Show, 13 products are named the Best in their categories. Products selected as winners can be entered by large companies or startups. The innovation and design is what…