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Steelcase, Technology & Workplace Design
1.16.12 | The contributions of the design professions are being made through the development and understanding of subjects of a much greater scope than that addressed by traditional fine arts programs. One of the leaders in our industry providing technical solutions is Steelcase, with its Integrated Technologies. One of the products in Steelcase’s Integrated Technologies vocabulary is media:scape, which was introduced at NeoCon WTF 2008. James Hackett, CEO of Steelcase, saw media:scape as another transformational product. Now, Steelcase is introducing media:scape mini and media:scape mobile to enhance the classroom collaboration experience at HigherEd TECH, a technology summit for higher education held as part of the international Consumer Electronics Show.
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Empire Office & CET Designer
12.12.11 | A couple of months ago, Tom Jushchuk of Empire Office wrote an email: Now I can say there are (5) happy moments in my life: >Getting married >Birth of my son >First day of work with Janina, Dawna and Su >Completing the United Nations project >CET Designer link to Hedberg
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To LED or Not to LED
11.14.11 | LED lighting is in the first part of the early adopter phase and could quickly move to the next phase since it offers energy savings and long lamp life. Yet, with any evolving technology, change can happen quickly and this can increase risk. No topic has created more interest than LEDs in the educational programs given by SquareFootage.net and its partners in 2011. Here are some insights to help sort out the playing field, or answer that famous Abbott & Costello question: Who’s on first?
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Using Parametric Contract Furniture Tools
9.26.11 | Parametric sales and specification tools for contract furniture spell “sustainability,” through time savings, elimination of waste and errors, and more efficient decision-making, to say nothing of reducing the wear and tear on very busy professionals. For these same reasons, they spell “productivity.”
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Before The Mast
5.30.11 | Accessorize, accessorize! Let no detail get past your eyes. And so the master, Carl Gustav Magnusson, has, in his most recent iteration as industrial designer at CGM Design, been pursuing those elements that, on a more micro scale, add convenience to our daily work lives.
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Kimball Office & National Office & A Holistic Approach to Sustainability
5.22.11 | Investigating ecoScorecard, a pattern was emerging: Kimball Office and National – the same pair that pursued BIFMA level 2 and 3 for all of their products – were the latest to implement this new tool. “Do businesses dealing with wood products have an historical practice of thinking holistically about the environment?”
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Momentum Goes For Simplicity
4.4.11 | In these days of excess, the simplicity of Momentum Group’s new website brings an unexpected joy and utility. The site presents products from the Momentum Textiles, LoomSource, and Textus brands. Designed specifically for ease of use among designers and specifiers, the website features a faster, more intuitive interface.
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Research Design Connections: Mobile Work: Implications for Workplace Design
3.7.11 | The GSA Public Buildings Service has comprehensively reviewed the “benefits and challenges of adopting a range of mobility strategies” and outlined mobility-related workplace design principles. Mobility is defined here as “The ability of individuals, enabled by the ubiquity and robustness of information technology and progressive workplace policies, to work freely within and outside the office.”
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Research and Practice: How InformeDesign Helps Bridge the Gap
11.29.10 | InformeDesign is used in a variety of contexts by people in many professions throughout the design industry. Many designers use it as part of the programming phase, But, sales representatives, city planners, educators, nurses, and professionals in many other fields use InformeDesign.
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InformeDesign/EBD: A Portal to Information And Differentiation
11.22.10 | InformeDesign (www.InformeDesign.org) needs your support. Never more than today has the design industry recognized the value of EBD. This website, launched in 2003, remains one of the best evidence-based design (EBD) tools for accessing design research.
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