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Housewares Marketing: Keeping Up with the Changing Trends

The home and housewares industry knows all about trends, changing styles and evolving technology. As much as those concepts apply to products and brands, they hold just as true for marketing practices. For brands to remain competitive and compelling, they not only need to keep their products and technology imaginative and functional, they also have to market those products…

Discovering Design: Meet blomus

By Vicki Matranga, Design Programs Coordinator Get to know the people behind the stylish products that will appear at the 2014 International Home + Housewares Show in Discover Design. Our conversations with exhibitors 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 Place. blomus is…

Innovation Insights: An Interview with Joanne Domeniconi, The Grommet

By Vicki Matranga, Design Programs + Services Learn how to develop and launch the right products for the right customer—with the right methods! The four days of the 2014 International Home + Housewares Show will be packed with events as well as educational sessions. In these final weeks before the Show, we preview programs that will take place in the Innovation Theater in the…

Discover Design: Meet the Judges – Mary Liz Curtin, Leon & Lulu

Vicki Matranga, Design Programs + Services Retailers and media looking for trend-setting, high design products at the 2014 International Home + Housewares Show head for Discover Design in SouthBuilding. The inspiring Discover Design Gallery, accessible to buyers and media, features products submitted for the Global Innovation Award (gia) for Design. Specialty retailers,…

Discovering Design: Waechtersbach USA Inc. / Konitz Porzellan

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. Our conversations with exhibitors 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 Place. Established…

Discover Design: Meet the Judges – Dan Kraemer, IA Collaborative

Vicki Matranga, Design Programs + Services Retailers and media looking for trend-setting, high-design products at the 2014 International Home + Housewares Show head for Discover Design in SouthBuilding. The inspiring Discover Design Gallery, accessible to buyers and media, features products submitted for the Global Innovation Award (gia) for Design. Specialty retailers,…

Innovation Insights: An Interview with Tim Woods, POCO Labs

By Vicki Matranga, Design Programs + Services Learn how to develop and launch the right products for the right customer—with the right methods! The four days of the 2014 International Home + Housewares Show will be packed with events as well as educational sessions. In these final weeksbefore the Show, we preview presentations that will take place in the Innovation Theater…