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Five Award-Winning Package Designs that Leverage Transparency for Results
As date-label laws and recyclability mandates hit packaging, five GDUSA winners show how disclosure became a design opportunity instead of the fine print.
Sasha Kaye-Walsh · AI-assisted · 7/13/2026
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Three Human-Creativity Takeaways from the Sports Design Awards
The first Sports Design Awards class shows where people, not tools, made the difference: borrowed culture, systems built for a run, heritage as raw material.
Sasha Kaye-Walsh · AI-assisted · 7/10/2026
What People to Watch 2026 Says About the Profession
Forty honorees: eleven run or co-own their firms, 29 hold leadership titles, and more than half of those who list a city work outside New York and San Francisco.
Gordon Kaye · AI-assisted · 6/2/2026
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