JANUARY/FEBRUARY
Design Trends, Economics Survey and Forecast
The annual Design Futures Council forecast and analysis of trends transforming the design professions. features insight from industry leaders, foresight strategists, and leading design management consultants. Panel discussions on business plan expectations and detailed insight from leading firm executives. Forecasts in each market segment. 35 Trends transforming the design professions are featured in this annual need-to-know report.
MARCH/APRIL
Compensation and Benefits Survey
The most comprehensive analysis on compensation and benefit trends in North America.Offers benchmarks and standards for compensation and benefits in the design professions, including executive compensation and bonuses. Features leading firm survey results and industry metrics. Includes in-depth analysis of emerging trends in recruitment, retention, and employment from leading AEC human resources professionals.
MAY/JUNE
Technology Survey, Trends, and Strategies Plus the Metrics of Productivity
Interviews with thought leaders and an analysis of select firms on the hardware and software they employ. Previews new research and the maximized utilization of current technologies. Highlights firms on the leading edge of technological growth and the application of technology and its impact on productivity and design parameters. Addresses the measures and culture of productivity in a changing design profession. Considers issues weighing on productivity analysis and pinpoints strategies for achieving high performance. Leadership discussions on productivity metrics and the tools employed in performance measurement. Building information modeling metrics projected. This report surveys and projects through 2010.
JULY/AUGUST
Sustainable Design Survey
Highlights innovation, opportunities, and new paradigms in growth, energy, infrastructure, sustainability, and the role of design in shaping our built environment. Features the work and commitments of delegates from the Design Futures Council Annual Leadership Summit on Sustainable Design and emerging green leadership design strategies. Reports on building types and highlights innovations as developed by firms of distinction. Pinpoints emerging trends, details technological changes, and development tools impacting specific building types and their life cycles. Discussions with select leaders on challenges and emerging opportunities. Details the impact of new trends in life cycle management, design-build, building life cycle, and building information management. This report highlights leadership initiatives.
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER
Global 30 Rankings and Brand Analysis
This is the definitive report on international practice growth strategies. Highlights the work of top-performing U.S.-based multinational design firms in the context of emerging world markets and growth trends. Ranks leading brands in architecture and design through an array of traditional and emerging market vehicles. Delves into the essence of brand survival, brand equity, and the successes of innovative and pervasive market differentiators. Reveals firm challenges and strategies for product differentiation and brand recognition. Includes foresight interviews with experts in AEC brand development. Reports on tools for foresight and futures analysis employed by today’s leading firms. Explores emerging trends and existing changes impacting the design professions and examines how these trends can mean a competitive market advantage for designers and their clients. Offers invaluable insight from industry leaders on the advantages and disadvantages of multinational design distinction.
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER
America’s Best Architecture and Design School Rankings
The industry’s definitive design school rankings as determined by practitioners employing recent grads. Articles, insights, and ratings by educators, department heads, students, and design leaders offer insight into the future of design academics and the state of new recruits. Features top design schools ranked by the profession, students, and academia. Offers detailed contextual analyses of demographic trends in the design professions, provides an insightful look into today’s leading firms with detailed demographic surveys, reviews of global trends in population centers, people, consumption, and emerging economies. Analysis of the impacts of cultural diversity on the nature of design and the needs of tomorrow’s leading firms. This is the most trusted rankings of design schools.
YEAR-END BONUS ISSUE
FREE WITH YOUR SUBSCRIPTION: The Almanac of Architecture & Design
More than 600 pages in this annual blockbuster. Features photos, statistics, and details of award-winning design projects for the past year, provides benchmark for top design, and honors significant contributions to the profession. An insightful and entertaining resource for anyone passionate about good design. This is the design professions’ factbook on benchmarks, lists, and rankings.
