1.   Spaulding said the design firms who lost in the contest will be encouraged to submit plans for individual buildings on the campus.

2.   For example, in a major project several design firms are normally involved.

3.   At Sense, the San Francisco design firm they just opened, the Internet playbook has been turned on its head.

4.   At Palo Alto, Calif.-based design firm IDEO Product Development, designers seem obsessed with learning about materials and products they have no immediate use for.

5.   Atlanta-based CFN is majority-owned by IXL Enterprises, the parent company of IXL, the Atlanta-based Web design firm.

6.   Beyond the geographical union, their boats are both designed by Fluid Thinking, a new design firm in Melbourne.

7.   Black, previously art director of Rolling Stone, the New York Times and Newsweek, now runs his own consulting design firm.

8.   A computer-aided design firm.

9.   A handful of design firms spent millions of dollars in pursuit of the franchise, part of it trying to create the prototypical New York toilet.

10.   A design engineering firm creates plans and does the financial analysis for a project.