Inspiration: Swapping Ideas Across Borders

I got to chatting with fresh, young, hip Circle up and coming team member Jessica Tubman about her travels in South America. Jessica is currently enrolled in business school and was able to take advantage of a unique opportunity to travel to Brazil on a school project. She reports on what she saw and liked, the food the culture, and a great encounter with Circle Furniture's own product, Charleston Forge Chairs! Different cultures can offer up many sources of inspiration for the design world and beyond.



Jess: "As part of a global entrepreneurship project at MIT Sloan, I traveled with a team to Campinas Brazil, a city outside of Sao Paulo. We consulted for an IT outsourcing company, Daitan Labs, working for 3 months from MIT in Cambridge and then for 3 weeks on location in Brazil at the company's HQ. While in Brazil our analysis included interviews with company executives and local Brazilian Venture Capitalists. In addition to just work, we ate a lot of really good Brazilian bbq (steak!) and toured both Sao Paulo and Rio."