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KI’s Deborah Breunig Discusses Evidenced-based Design and KI’s Role
1.23.12 | Much to our embarrassment, our review of healthcare products at NeoCon 2011 did not include KI, which has been a long-time prominent player in this area. We were therefore grateful to mitigate our deficiency through an opportunity to speak to Deborah Breunig, Vice President of Healthcare at KI. Ms. Breunig was happy to give us additional insight about KI’s perspective on the healthcare field, which appears to be leading the interior design profession into a new day in which designers will be required have a very good handle on the outcomes that can be expected from their efforts and their client’s investments.
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A Conversation with Peter Conant, President, IIDA
10.17.11 | Peter A. Conant, IIDA, AIA, LEED AP, is currently the International President of IIDA (International Interior Design Association), and is past president of IIDA New York Chapter. He shared his thoughts with officeinsight about chapter participation, interchanges with educators and students, knowledge sharing and IIDA and ASID relations.
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The Inscape Solution
9.26.11 | Standardization is giving way to extensibility, interoperability and scalability. Inscape, with its new Inscape System, is showing how this can be done with contract furniture. “The whole point of the Inscape System is to enable the furnishings to follow the design, not define it.”
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HOK Transitions: A Conversation with Juliette Lam & Tom Polucci
5.16.11 | HOK’s warrior princess is not ready to put down her spears. Juliette Lam will now lead a strategic initiative to expand the company’s global interiors practice. Tom Polucci, former design director of the HOK Chicago interiors practice, moved to New York as Director of Interiors. Christopher Liu joined HOK from Nelson, succeeding Mr. Polucci in that role.
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Luna Textiles
5.9.11 | Formed just 17 years ago, Luna Textiles has become a most agreeable fixture on the small firmament that we call contract design and furnishings. With its opening of a NYC showroom and with NeoCon 2011 just around the corner, we took a peak at what’s in store and set it in the context of this company’s design approach.
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Michael Alin: Some Thoughts
5.9.11 | Earlier this year Michael Alin, Hon. FASID, executive director of ASID, announced his decision to retire on Oct. 1, 2011. Before doing so, Mr. Alin is leaving some thoughts for us to consider.
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John Peterson, Public Architecture: A Conversation
4.25.11 | Many of us have causes. To some of them we give services according to our capabilities. At their best, these activities represent what we stand for, and they enable us to align our business goals with our personal values and those of our employees, an increasingly beneficial practice for business employee management.
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Interform: Complete Interior Services
4.25.11 | Interform Commercial Interiors, San Ramon, CA, is one of the success stories of the last recession. In fact, in July of 2010 the firm moved to larger offices in San Ramon California. Furthermore, this is a firm that unabashedly states that it provides both design services and product solutions. So officeinsight was interested in learning more about them and their business model.
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Challenging Design Education: An Interview with Neil Frankel
Challenging Design Education: An Interview with Neil Frankel 4.4.11 | ”Where is the moral compass?” asks Neil Frankel. “We need to train designers for moral and ethical questions.” Designers must think, in addition to function and beauty, into the realm of psychology and sociology. ”How can new knowledge be infused into design?” With that in mind, he created the Center for Workplace Performance at the University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee, sponsored by Haworth.
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DIRTT’s Geoff Gosling: Designing with Purpose
Speaking About Design In Terms Clients Can Understand
12.13.10 | Geoff Gosling is head designer of DIRTT Environmental’s wall and floor systems. He was named by Healthcare Design Magazine as one of the top 10 most innovative healthcare product designers for 2010. He joined DIRTT to apply biomimicry principles to creating the interior environment.
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