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.
Hear from Steelcase Director of Design Bruce Smith about how to push limits, explore edges, and prototype quickly, and the benefits of applying design thinking to developing sustainable systems.
The design journey for this new collection started with a deep investigation and analysis of Teknion’s portfolio, during which PearsonLloyd identified areas that the brand could expand by offering a new range of contract furniture.
Every new advance in how we communicate and visualize design allows us to see our work from new perspectives and be better designers. It’s a tremendous time to be in the design world.
My first NeoCon was in 1974—that’s when Herman Miller introduced the modular seating. It was very exciting for me because this was the first major product I had done for Herman Miller. And they were very generous in the way they showed it in their showroom at the time.
We’re living through a kind of Cambrian explosion for office furniture: while a simple rolling chair, file cabinet, and flat surface used to keep workers content, a tour of modern-day workplaces finds workers crafting software code as they walk on treadmills or sit on chairs with an inflated yoga ball for a seat.
In this episode of Clever, strategic designer Todd Bracher regales us with tales of a serendipitous ten-year journey, living, loving and learning through Europe, on the way to launching his namesake studio in Brooklyn.
Who would have thought: the most legendary chair in the history of modern design, the LC4 chaise longue by Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand, is also one of the most-used fuck-props in adult films.
The thing is, nobody really knows what the perfect manifestation of an analog-digital environment is just yet.
“Call it a modern office space: an opportunity for people throughout our urban campus to come here and be able to have a completely different work setting,” says John Schoettler, Amazon’s vice president for global real estate and facilities and the driving force behind the company’s Seattle campus.
Our open workspace has made it easier to communicate and share ideas, have conversations on the go. The result is more innovation and idea sharing. People are not isolated behind their desks.
Murray never set out to design furniture. He got his start in 1969 when he stated running his father's office furniture business after his father suffered a heart attack. He was in his 20s and he wanted to experience more before committing his life to the industry.
Following the publication of design duo Barber and Osgerby’s monograph last year, we speak to the studio’s co-founder Jay Osgerby about 20 years’ of furniture-making, coming up with original ideas and why designers should always consider the environment.
There’s a good chance you’ll never have the opportunity to work at Apple, let alone attain the success of chief designer Jony Ive. But that doesn’t mean you can’t sit like Jony Ive.
Barber Osgerby’s idea for a calm office chair was, of course, catnip for Ive, who has strived to make Apple’s design so simple as to seem “inevitable.”
Materials are a designer’s paint and canvas–and for the most part, they’ve remained pretty static in recent decades.
