Ernest Beck

Ernest Beck|Report

Catapult Design: How to Run a Design Firm for Social Change

Catapult Design’s nonprofit model offers a new way to think about how designers can engage social innovation projects.

Ernest Beck|Reviews

New Meaning at ICFF

A review of the 2010 International Contemporary Furniture Fair.

Ernest Beck|Event-Aspen

Aspen Design Summit: CDC and Healthy Aging: "5over50" Funding Proposal

At the Aspen Design Summit, the CDC Healthy Aging Project developed an aggressive goal: to double the current number of adults 50 and over who have received a set of recommended preventive health services. Post-Aspen, this concept paper …

Ernest Beck|Event-Aspen

Aspen Design Summit: Rural Alabama – Engine Project: March 2010 Workshop Report

Following up on the Aspen Design Summit, a workshop held in Birmingham in March 2010. Team members presented ideas from the Summit to 40 potential partners, focusing on how new resources and design services could spur local social …

Ernest Beck|Projects

Es Tiempo

Report on Es Tiempo, a campaign designed to encourage Hispanic women in Southern California to seek annual screenings for cervical cancer.

Ernest Beck|Report

The Cotton Club

Report on the complex, and sometimes muddled, standards for certifying organic cotton.

Ernest Beck|Projects

GlobalTap

Report on prototype for GlobalTap water refilling stations.

Ernest Beck|Report

State of Shelter

Relief organizations still rely on the same basic options for emergency housing, but new ideas are taking hold.

Ernest Beck|Projects

Medellín, Colombia

Report on the city officials who turned around a notorious drugs-and-murder capital, winning the 2009 Curry Stone Design Prize for Transformative Public Works.

Ernest Beck|Projects

Emergency Response Studio

Report on artist Paul Villinski's mobile studio, which he converted from a trailer of the type used by FEMA to house victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Ernest Beck|Projects

Peepoobag

Report on Peepoobag, a new self-sanitizing, single-use, biodegradable container for human waste.

Ernest Beck|Projects

Chulha Stove

Report on the Chulha stove designed by Philips to reduce indoor air pollution in developing countries.