Designed In USA

The ‘Designed in USA’ brand certification mark is a new identifier and brand enhancer for goods, services and environments designed in the United States. It is now available for free use by members of the design community, business community and by leaders championing the design profession.

‘Designed in USA’ was created by RKS to raise awareness of American design in all its forms, capitalize on perceived value, provide competitive differentiation and encourage optimism. Design’s various disciplines (product, service, architecture, interior, interaction, communication, etc.) are a vital humanistic tool increasingly shaping the world. And the U.S. design profession is a global leader that helps create more successful products and services by boosting consumer attraction and experience, driving innovation and innovation processes, stimulating job creation inside and outside manufacturing, and much more.

StageSource L3t Rocks Artists’ Expectations

It is a challenge for the performing musician to choose the perfect high-performance loudspeaker system because over the course of a career they play different styles, instruments and venues.  StageSource L3t is a simple, powerful and compact integrated live sound solution uniquely built on Line 6’s innovative technology platform and design. Innovative technology inside and an intelligent design outside enable a single speaker enclosure to provide best-of-class performance in multiple live sound functions, and the result is the most versatile and scalable loudspeaker ever imagined for musicians that stands-out within the crowded category. To learn more about StageSourceL3t visit Line 6’s website here or see what the media are saying here.

Unity Home Theater Wins Innovations Award, Impresses at CES Debut

Unity is a revolutionary new home theater solution and winner of CEA’s prestigious Innovations 2012 Design and Engineering Award. It provides a simple, elegant, high-performance answer to the difficult questions consumers face in building Home Theaters that fit their lifestyles.

With design a core part of In2Technologies’ market-entry approach, the Unity Home Theater was developed in close partnership with the RKS design team, including both the industrial design and strategic brand development. The collaboration helped In2Technologies’ to realize their vision of a simple, elegant Home Theater product that would meet the aesthetic requirements…

American Design and the Innovation Nation

CEO Ravi Sawhney recently completed a blog series addressing the changing nature of ‘Made in America,’ which highlights good news in manufacturing, the need to better protect IP, ideas for better national leadership around innovation, and a pathway to better brand the American design community.

Part 1: America, the “Innovation Nation”

Part 2: Here’s Some Good Economic News: U.S. Manufacturing Is Rising Once Again

Part 3: Protecting Design IP for the US to Remain On Top

Part 4: U.S. Innovation Can’t Stay On Top Without Smart Government

Part 5: Designers: Help Me Rebrand American Innovation

RKS Honored with Seven GOOD Design Awards

(Chicago) RKS was honored this month to receive Seven Good Design Awards across the medical, electronics, and personal categories of the prestigious awards competition. Honored designs ranged from laboratory automation solutions to reusable water bottles, a new smart phone for the blind, to a mobile-optimized ventilator and an improved dental extrusion syringe.

Founded by Ray and Charles Eames, for more than 60 years GOOD DESIGN has bestowed international recognition upon the world’s most prominent designers and manufacturers for advancing new, visionary, and innovative product concepts, invention and originality, and for stretching the envelope beyond what is considered ordinary product and consumer design.  The awards have been conferred annually by the Chicago Athenaeum since 1950.