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Here’s The DIRTT

5.13.12 | In nature, chaos has two elements, randomness and order. In human endeavors, chaos is what provides the freedom, even the need, to explore and innovate. Without order, however, this freedom ...

KI Introduces Lightline Walls

5.13.12 | KI is launching what it considers to be a major advance: Lightline, a pre-engineered, unified, pre-fabricated, modular glass wall solution. Basically, the company has achieved the desired aesthetic ...

Herman Miller Explosion in NYC - Part 2

5.13.12 | Last week, officeinsight featured a short piece on Herman Miller activities in New York City. This is not so much a follow up as an emendation and extension. We omitted to mention Tobron as ...

Steelcase’s Jeannie Bochette Retires

5.13.12 | The great Jeannie Bochette retired last week and there was quite a humbling turnout at the retirement party for this Queen of Steelcase Good Will, who spread her magical “I’ll get it done” ...

Research Design Connection: Social Jetlag and Daylight

Till Roenneberg and his colleagues tie discrepancies between circadian rhythms and daily responsibilities to obesity, and these circadian rhythm/daily responsibility disconnects (termed “social jetlag”) ...

Here’s The DIRTT

KI Introduces Lightline Walls

Herman Miller Explosion in NYC - Part 2

Steelcase’s Jeannie Bochette Retires

Research Design Connection: Social Jetlag and Daylight

5.13.12 | Till Roenneberg and his colleagues tie discrepancies between circadian rhythms and daily responsibilities to obesity, and these circadian rhythm/daily responsibility disconnects (termed ...

Can Kimball Office Xsite With Priority? (Hum.)

5.7.12 | Kimball Office established its big-league bona fides through the Hum! Minds At Work benching line – introduced in 2008-09. Now it has taken its 2 1/2 years of learning in benching concepts ...

Herman Miller Explosion in NYC

5.7.12 | Herman Miller is making a couple of noteworthy moves in the premium New York City market, each with its own distinct flavor. First, Creative Office Pavilion, the largest Herman Miller dealer ...

dTank Interactive Free iPad App

5.7.12 | To create further access to the dTank vision – and to kick-start the creative design process – dTank recently launched a free interactive iPad app. This app goes well beyond images of dTank ...

NYSID and MCNY: Interior Design on the Cutting Edge

5.7.12 | The New York School of Interior Design (NYSID) with the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) hosted a panel of new interior designers and teams at the newly redesigned South Street Seaport Museum. ...

Research Design Connection: Multitasking: Feeling Good While Doing Badly

5.7.12 | New research, conducted by Prof. Zheng Wang and John Tchernev (both from The Ohio State University), sheds new light on why people multi-task: it feels good. The researchers learned “that multitasking ...

Luna Textiles NY Showroom Opening

4.29.12 | An opening party and the sampling of Napa Valley’s Ziata wine at the Luna Textiles’s showroom in the New York Design Center officially launched Luna’s East Coast operations hub. Anna Hernandez, ...

IIDA NY Pioneering Design: Color Awareness

4.29.12 | The moderator for the IIDA-NY Chapter Pioneering Design lecture series on color awareness, Linda O’Keefe, recently published a book entitled, Brilliant: White in Design. Did not this perfect ...

3form Takes HA+D Awards

4.29.12 | Few new companies have had as much impact on the interiors scene in the past decade as 3form, a manufacturer of sustainable building materials and architectural hardware solutions. Recently, ...

Project Focus: TM Advertising/Gensler, Dallas

4.29.12 | Rows of low profile, workbench-style furniture – Antenna Workspaces and Generation work chairs by Knoll – radiate from the central core and foster collaboration and provide welcome external ...

Research Design Connection: Open Offices for Academics Don’t Get Good Grades

4.29.12 | Chris Baldry and Alison Barnes investigated the implications of providing academics with open offices or with single person offices with floor to ceiling walls and a full height door.

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Felderman + Keatinge

4.22.12 | Felderman Keatinge, Los Angeles, is a small firm, but its ideas and designs are far from small or parochial, although a few currents of the Southern California fresh air are unmistakable. The ...

Momentum For the Environment

4.22.12 | Momentum Textiles is launching a Memo Take Back program called 2 Clicks, so called because that's all it will take to return samples to Momentum's warehouse for recycling. That is why Momentum ...

Project Focus | Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP

4.22.12 | Architecture firm Francis Cauffman did the redesign of the former federal courthouse, the Daniel L. Herrmann Courthouse, in downtown Wilmington for Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP. ...

Gensler Diversity Scholarship Winners 2012

4.22.12 | Gensler announced the winners of its fourth annual Gensler Diversity Scholarship, which recognizes emerging talent in African-American college students enrolled in accredited architecture programs. ...

Research Design Connection: Hydration and Cognitive Performance

4.22.12 | Research presented by Chris Pawson, Sarah Doherty, Laura Martin, Ruth Soares, Caroline Edmonds, and Mark Gardner on April 18 at the British Psychological Society’s annual conference indicates ...

Stylex’s Sava Chair Wins Red Dot

4.16.12 | We were particularly pleased that Stylex Seating from the U.S. received one of the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2012 awards for its SAVA chair, introduced at NeoCon 2010. The SAVA is an excellent ...

HBF: Pratt Career Night 2012

4.16.12 | HBF and HBF Textiles added its annual contribution to the ushering in of some of the interior design industry’s uninitiated by hosting the ninth annual Pratt Institute Career Night at its ...

A Random Walk: Distribution & Innovation

4.16.12 | Does the contract furniture distribution model inhibit innovation in the industry because some contract furniture manufacturers restrict their aligned dealerships from selling certain “competitor” ...

New York Eleven Annual Student Exhibition

4.16.12 | The New York Eleven 2012 Student Exhibition, titled Interior Design: Raising the Bar will run in Albany’s Legislative Office Building from April 17th until April 19th. After that, it will ...

Seeyond Introduces “Thought Starters”

4.16.12 | Following its award-winning launch at NeoCon 2011 – Best of NeoCon Gold in Architectural Products and an Innovation Award – Seeyond Architectural Solutions will bring a new library of fully ...