Contract furnishings provider, Hightower received multiple awards at NeoCon 2021, including IIDA's 'Best Small Showroom' (under 4,000 sf) and 'Best of Competition' for its newly designed Chicago showroom.
Humanscale welcomes Elizabeth Margles to its Marketing Division in the role of Chief Marketing Officer. Margles comes to Humanscale with twenty years of experience in design, fashion and retail and a background in public relations and advertising.
The exclusive relationship with Kontrol's BioCloud® Technology will provide real-time detection of airborne pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 to help make workplaces safer as organizations return to the office.
When Spencer Staley started Good Mod—now a multidisciplinary design and fabrication studio, furniture repair outfit, and retailer—in 2002, he was operating from an antique mall, selling midcentury furniture he handpicked from garage sales. Today Staley, an entirely self-taught designer, and his team of nearly a dozen makers have developed a novel concept for office furniture in tandem with Airbnb’s Environments division.
As part of its Pacific Standard Time exhibition initiative, the Getty Museum enlisted renowned performer Ice Cube to make a promotional video and poster.
Home furnishings site Dot & Bo is expanding into workplace design, with the launch of Dot & Bo for Business. The e-commerce startup will be offering a free styling service to other startups and businesses who are looking to find the right vibe for their offices.
In an industry where nap pods and slides are commonplace, a comfortable work atmosphere has been considered a critical component for hiring at tech startups and corporations, and San Francisco-based Dot & Bo is looking to capitalize on this market opportunity.
Your average furniture designer would like you to believe his products will change your life. Most don't, of course, but for millions of desk jockeys in offices around the globe, one task chair has done precisely that: the Aeron by Bill Stumpf (1936–2006) and Don Chadwick for Herman Miller.
If you’ve ever worked in an office, you know the feeling. Some days you just need to hunker down in a corner somewhere to get away. Maybe you’re having trouble concentrating, or you’re crashing on a deadline, or you took the company happy hour a little too seriously last night.
That’s the question Be Original Americas aimed to answer at Pratt Institute last month in a live discussion between industrial designer Leon Ransmeier and Ben Watson, Executive Creative Director of charter member Herman Miller. After an introduction by Karin Tehve, Chair of Interior Design at Pratt Institute, moderator Felix Burrichter, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of PIN-UP Magazine guided Ransmeier and Watson in their investigation of authenticity.
Recognizing that the single-person household is the fastest growing demographic of the past decade and set to become a dominant configuration of cities of the future, the ‘Carafe Table’ responds to these shifting conditions by providing an attractive, adaptable work and entertaining surface with subtle storage options.
Our carbon-fiber LessThanFive Chair is available for order in just a couple weeks. In anticipation of the launch, we asked one of the engineers who helped develop the chair, Mike Detloff, for his thoughts on bringing this groundbreaking product to market.
Over the past decade, workplace environments across a wide swath of industries have changed dramatically. Today’s most successful companies value non-hierarchical relationships and the flexibility to work in a variety of ways and locations. Step inside a modern office design and you see workstations blended with social spaces promoting spontaneous, free-flowing communication. Or, you see a gathering of mobile and teleworking staff hoteling in a flexible space. In these and other modern workplaces, a key to making such spaces relevant for staff is clear wayfinding.
Meditation, everyone knows, happens in the mind, and how we furnish that 'space' is entirely up to us. But how would that – the physical manifestation of that experience – translate into a physical environment? Architect duo Oyler Wu has taken on the challenge to create the Headspace Meditation Pods.
Throughout 2015, Metropolis’s publisher and editor in chief Susan S. Szenasy visited leading architecture and design firms across the country as part of the Metropolis Think Tank series of discussions on key issues surrounding human-centered design. On February 19, 2015, she talked to designers and principals of the San Francisco architecture, design, and consulting firm Gensler and their consultants about new approaches to education, technology, community building, and the role of irreverence and play in shaping a new educational landscape. What follows is an edited transcript of the conversation.
When I first joined IDEO as a business designer, I had no idea what the role would look like day-to-day. To start figuring it out, I turned to some of our veteran business designers. As I went from one conversation to the next, I was surprised to find that each person had a unique perspective around how business design can be applied to a given challenge.
Designing a carbon fiber chair was a dream opportunity as our studios are constantly curious about new materials, new processes and how we can push the limits of manufacturing our products.
Once you grasp business, you don’t just design better, you also have a stronger position from which to defend your design.
When the Eames lounge chair and ottoman were launched in 1956, they signalled a new direction in American consumerism. The luxurious leather recliner appealed directly to an American public ready to leave behind the austerities of the post-war years, and treat itself to a very comfortable symbol of affluence.
OFS Brands spoke with Pam Light of HOK about how products within the workplace influence our activities and behavior. Thoughtfully designed active spaces are never truly finished: they evolve with changing workplace needs and trends. To gain insight on how furniture and space planning can support activity based design, OFS Brands interviewed Pam Light, Senior Vice President of HOK.
There’s been a lot of talk over the past 20 years about evidence-based design. EBD is the idea that improvements to the design of buildings, particularly to their interior spaces—more daylight, improved air quality, better lighting—can have a positive effect on human health and performance. The problem with EBD is that it’s very hard to conduct truly rigorous scientific studies on humans. Was it the improved lighting that enabled students to boost their test scores, or was it better airflow in the classroom? Did that hospital patient heal more quickly because she had a window with a view to the outside, or was she just a fast healer? Too many variables, not enough controls, so it’s anybody’s guess how much, if anything, the design contributed to the outcome.
Lots of people fantasize about dropping everything and moving to the Big Apple to make their dreams come true, but Fauzia Khanani actually did it. After earning a Master of Architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley, she dropped everything and moved across the country to start her practice, Foz Design—based on a single commission. Four years later, the company she confidently named after the Arabic word for "success" is living up to its title, with public and private spaces cropping up around the country.
Dining rooms today seem louder than ever, boasting all the acoustics of a shipping container. We turned to local designers for an explanation and determined that the problem is multifaceted, rooted in design trends, dining preferences, and economic conditions.
