The architects and designers who create inspirational workspaces are participants in a dynamic process of customization. Their mission is to be responsive to each client’s unique community and character, and to express those attributes in an environment that is unlike any other. Yet as tailored as these settings can be, they are rarely made of one-of-a-kind components.
Designers need tools to enliven the impersonal office and overcome the commonality of its prevailing furnishings. But how do these building blocks become more bespoke?
This is the new culture of Customization — a rising phenomenon today that empowers greater personal expression and creative participation in the demand for individualized products. Coalesse studies how customization has evolved in the greater design ecosystem, pushed both by a steady appetite for the value and heritage of crafted goods, and the democracy of newer technologies that engage consumers —and design professionals — deeper in the product-making equation than ever before.