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D.C.-born vocalistcomposer Lulu Fall, actress in the Broadway musical Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, and Kris Johnson, director of Jazz Studies at the University of Utah trumpeter, soloist, and arranger with the Count Basie Orchestra, have just released themusic video and single for 'Pretty For A Dark Girl'from their upcoming album 'The Unpaved Road,'which will be out viaArtist Centric Music, LLC on August 22, 2017. Fellow 'Great Comet' star Denee Benton is also featured in the video - check it out below...

Industrial designer Carl Gustav Magnusson has been inspired by automobile design since he was 12, working such motifs into lamps and other office furniture. Why cars? "Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content." Here, Magnusson examines his definition of design in greater detail.

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The Design Does Matter video series is produced by Teknion, creator of award-winning office systems furniture. Teknion also is the publisher of the Design Does Matter book, now in its third edition, featuring essays from top designers and design thinkers. The Design Does Matter concept was developed for Teknion by San Francisco designer Michael Vanderbyl of Vanderbyl Design, who has articulated what Teknion stands for in every media from print collateral to showrooms to digital presence. This year's Design Does Matter films were produced by Kris Johnson, an independent producer based in San Francisco.

Design veteran Art Gensler explains how design work is different than it was decades ago, how office design is about answering, "How do we get people to collaborate and interact?" And he tells us how "the everyday is evolving to be better."

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The Design Does Matter video series is produced by Teknion, creator of award-winning office systems furniture. Teknion also is the publisher of the Design Does Matter book, now in its third edition, featuring essays from top designers and design thinkers. The Design Does Matter concept was developed for Teknion by San Francisco designer Michael Vanderbyl of Vanderbyl Design, who has articulated what Teknion stands for in every media from print collateral to showrooms to digital presence. This year's Design Does Matter films were produced by Kris Johnson, an independent producer based in San Francisco.

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Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, tells us how businesspeople need to become designers--designing user experiences and business models--to create something new and fantastic, and not just analyze the past.

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The Design Does Matter video series is produced by Teknion, creator of award-winning office systems furniture. Teknion also is the publisher of the Design Does Matter book, now in its third edition, featuring essays from top designers and design thinkers. The Design Does Matter concept was developed for Teknion by San Francisco designer Michael Vanderbyl of Vanderbyl Design, who has articulated what Teknion stands for in every media from print collateral to showrooms to digital presence. This year's Design Does Matter films were produced by Kris Johnson, an independent producer based in San Francisco.

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Michael Vanderbyl is a multidisciplinary designer that has a message for companies, "A brand should be about truth." Here, he tells us how designers must be part of business from the beginning, to create an authentic brand and fit a company into a world where design is all around us.

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The Design Does Matter video series is produced by Teknion, creator of award-winning office systems furniture. Teknion also is the publisher of the Design Does Matter book, now in its third edition, featuring essays from top designers and design thinkers. The Design Does Matter concept was developed for Teknion by San Francisco designer Michael Vanderbyl of Vanderbyl Design, who has articulated what Teknion stands for in every media from print collateral to showrooms to digital presence. This year's Design Does Matter films were produced by Kris Johnson, an independent producer based in San Francisco.

Read more about Innovation Agents...

For decades, Peter Lawrence has been telling large corporations that they should, "put design in the DNA of the company." In this video, he discusses the business world's views of design, how business schools are incorporating design thinking, and the fact that, "we have a market that is anti-design."

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The Design Does Matter video series is produced by Teknion, creator of award-winning office systems furniture. Teknion also is the publisher of the Design Does Matter book, now in its third edition, featuring essays from top designers and design thinkers. The Design Does Matter concept was developed for Teknion by San Francisco designer Michael Vanderbyl of Vanderbyl Design, who has articulated what Teknion stands for in every media from print collateral to showrooms to digital presence. This year's Design Does Matter films were produced by Kris Johnson, an independent producer based in San Francisco.

Read more about Innovation Agents...

Norma Kamali may be best known as a clothing designer who has made garmets from parachute material and brought back baggy-crotch harem pants, but she's technologically savvy as well. In this segment from the series Design Does Matter, Kamali discusses how her augmented-reality iPad app is democratizing design, and how "design is critical to the quality of life."

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The Design Does Matter video series is produced by Teknion, creator of award-winning office systems furniture. Teknion also is the publisher of the Design Does Matter book, now in its third edition, featuring essays from top designers and design thinkers. The Design Does Matter concept was developed for Teknion by San Francisco designer Michael Vanderbyl of Vanderbyl Design, who has articulated what Teknion stands for in every media from print collateral to showrooms to digital presence. This year's Design Does Matter films were produced by Kris Johnson, an independent producer based in San Francisco.