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.
Apple's latest mobile operating system, iOS 11, just released today. One of the biggest updates that should get the attention of architects is ARKit, Apple's new augmented reality framework. ARKit provides the opportunity to for Apple and 3rd party developers to create AR experiences anew, or to enhance existing applications for iPhone and iPad.
Want Americans to care about the environment? Skip the lectures and simply make products desirable, writes branding consultant Kimberly Cross.
The celebrated British designer discusses the process of developing the Emeco 1 Inch collection, his new book, and his challenging foray into interior design.
The rules of business seem to be changing constantly, and no one model of success is dominant, so it’s particularly fascinating when a company breaks through the noise. But what are those qualities that allow for one startup to fly while so many others like it fail? That’s what the global brand consultancy Interbrand set out to determine with its Breakthrough Brands report–now in its second year–which names 40 companies that it says represent the next generation of brands across a variety of new, emerging, and evolving categories of business.
When Studio-Tag opened in the Plant Building near New York City’s Times Square in April, it introduced a concept for commercial interiors as revolutionary as the tunes that John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix once recorded there. Studio-Tag is a one-stop shop for contract and hospitality interiors — with glass, lighting, flooring, textiles and furniture all in one place. Before it debuted, those products were scattered across Manhattan, and they were hardly curated. Studio-Tag changed all that inside its new 6,200-square-foot studio and gallery.
The shelter magazine is refocusing its website as a community-driven collaboration tool for modern design fiends. Move over, Pinterest?
Julie Maggos, director of environmental graphics for IA, oversees the discipline, also known as experiential graphic design, that integrates a story narrative with the built environment to create a memorable experience. Clients increasingly leverage EGD features to support, and in some case develop, an organization’s brand and IA uses a range of materials–from coffee beans to crayons–to help tell their story. Sometimes, we even get to carve it in stone.
On the Chicago Theatre stage, in front of more than 700 people from DIRTT's worldwide team of distribution partners and employees, DIRTT unveiled the first-ever demonstration of ICEreality™ -- mixed reality technology for design and construction.
The sound of a word like "knife" or "truck" seems totally arbitrary—it’s just a random sound we’ve assigned to a thing, right? But for several decades, scientists have found good evidence that the sound of words have meaning in a very real way. Sound can convey subtle information about traits such as size, shape, smoothness, and also, according to a new study in Cognition, distance. This suggests that while the sound of company and product names—Lyft, Smuckers, Nike—may seem meaningless, it may actually quietly shape consumers' perceptions.
Kontor recently hosted our second Tech by Design event, which brought a crowd of West Coast influencers in tech, business, and design to Instacart’s office in San Francisco. At the event, Kontor officially unveiled a suite of new workflow tools that enable designers and their clients to easily collaborate.
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.
In this edition of Firestarters, we focus on a topic near and dear to planners' hearts: the creative brief. Industry leaders share how they've adapted creative briefs at their agencies to help drive projects in an always-on world.
People in other industries don't provide their would-be clients with "spec work" for free. That would be asinine. So, why do office furniture dealers, interior designers and manufacturers continue to do it?
