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.
Watch James Ludwig, Vice President of Design and Engineering for Steelcase, as he answers five questions in five minutes on the future of the workplace in a post-COVID world and the unique opportunity it presents designers in the episode 1 of the series Designing What's Next.
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The "Connected" project currently links international designers as well as the American Hardwood Export Council, Benchmark Furniture, and the London Design Museum for an experiment: sustainably produced furniture for which every coordination is done digitally.
"Everybody talks about local manufacturing and local consumption, but now we're slightly being forced to confront that possibility a bit more.”
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The Snoop and Woopy chair design for Italian furniture brand B-Line is one of Rashid's best-known works
New York designer Karim Rashid has won this year's American Prize for Design, which is regarded as "the highest and most prestigious design award in the United States".
The New York designer was named the 2020 laureate of the accolade awarded annually by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
Rashid, whose best-known works include the Snoop and Woopy chair and the Bobble water flask, describes himself as a "design pervert, cultural shaper, poet of plastic, digipop rockstar".
"Design is my lifelong hobby," Rashid said. "Design is something that can be so emotional, so experiential, so romantic, so poetic, and so human and yet constantly moves us forward."
He intends to champions "democratic design", a term he uses to describe making good design available for all, through projects focused on unnoticed or overlooked items.
Pans with colourful handles, a faceted glass bottle for American vodka brand Anestasia, a "deconstructed" wine bottle and a smartphone charger are among his creations.
"We must evolve, we must innovate, and we must change," the designer added. "I want to change the physical world."
In addition to 3,000 objects, Rashid's portfolio also includes fashion, exhibitions, interiors and architecture projects, completing a sex shop in Munich, the University of Naples subway station and a restaurant in Dubai.
The Chicago Athenaeum's president Christian Narkiewicz-Laine commended Rashid for his "dizzying array of projects going all over the globe". "What stands out is that the man is driven. Scratch that. Hyper-driven," Narkiewicz-Laine added.
"Entering the mad design world of Rashid is like being trapped inside a gigantic, rotating kaleidoscope, where the turning and twisting of bits of coloured materials between two flat plates against two plane mirrors produce an endless variety of crazed patterns and dizzying possibilities," he said.
In this episode of Clever, recorded for the WantedDesign Online Conversation Series, Amy Devers talks to industrial designer Ayse Birsel, who grew up thinking she’d become a lawyer until a revelation with a teacup enlightened her to the principles and practice of design.
Fritz Hansen's head of design Christian Andresen discusses the legacy of Vico Magistretti in this talk filmed by Dezeen for the Danish furniture brand as part of Virtual Design Festival.
Alfredo Häberli is one of the internationally established designers: the works created in his studio in Zurich for pioneering companies such as Vitra, Kvadrat or Moroso are energetic and expressive.
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Once you’re in the door, there’s plenty of advice floating around about style, project management, budget and all the rest—but how do you actually get the job in the first place?
Looking back to the celebrated brands of the 1950s, like Herman Miller and Knoll, furniture was originally created for the office market, but as the products were so well thought out, they eventually evolved into household environments.
