Surfaces

It's A Material World

It's A Material World

Happily, the workplace is no longer tied to prescriptive ideas of how it should look or function. Corporations and start-ups alike are creating multi-purpose spaces in which people do lots of different things. Given the mobility and diversity of the people at work, we see a need for universal design and materials that allow everyone to function, to do what they do, whoever they are. Today, materials are not applied as specifically as before, rather we look for textiles that can be used across the office and on both the horizontal and vertical plane.

WILSONART ENGINEERED SURFACES & HANWHA SURFACES JOIN FORCES TO GROW SOLID SURFACE PRODUCTION IN NORTH AMERICA

WILSONART ENGINEERED SURFACES & HANWHA SURFACES JOIN FORCES TO GROW SOLID SURFACE PRODUCTION IN NORTH AMERICA

Wilsonart Engineered Surfaces and Hanwha L&C Corporation announce a joint-venture agreement to build a manufacturing facility in Temple, Texas, supporting expansion and growth of the Wilsonart® Solid Surface and Hanex Solid Surfaces product lines. The more-than-125,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility provides both companies with added capacity and onsite product development capabilities to service their respective North American solid surface customers.

Suzanne Tick Ventures Into Glass for Skyline Collection

Suzanne Tick Ventures Into Glass for Skyline Collection

Architecture is an endless source of inspiration for textile designer Suzanne Tick, and she has brought that sensibility to a number of her projects, be they flooring for Tarkett or upholstery for Luum Textiles. “I go by every building skeleton and take a picture, and think, ‘That’s going to be the next weave structure,’” she says.

Google’s huge 4K touchscreen whiteboard is now on sale for $5K

Google’s huge 4K touchscreen whiteboard is now on sale for $5K

Google’s Jamboard is not a kitchen app for curating PB&J recipes – it’s a 55-inch digital whiteboard, with pen and touch input, companion iOS and Android apps, an Nvidia Jetson TX1 processor on board and 4K resolution. The behemoth is an enterprise-focused collaboration tool, that comes in three fun colors and has a stand that looks ripped from a Herman Miller catalog, and if you’re in the U.S. you can order one today for $4,999.

Are Conference Room Acoustics Sabotaging Your Meetings?

Are Conference Room Acoustics Sabotaging Your Meetings?

When evaluating the effectiveness of a meeting space, the most obvious factors to consider are the technology, the furniture and maybe the design style or "personality” of the room. What might be overlooked, unfortunately, is conference room acoustics.more “Many conference rooms are designed with glass walls, hard ceilings, whiteboards and big-screen televisions on the walls,” points out Steve Johnson, founder of ADI Workplace Acoustics.

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Arborite Acquires Lamin-Art

Arborite Acquires Lamin-Art

Lamin-Art, one of North America’s leading decorative surfaces brands, has been acquired by Arborite, a Montreal-based high pressure laminate manufacturer. The previously a privately-held business, based in Schaumburg, Illinois, will now operate as part of Wilsonart Engineered Surfaces with Kevin Geijer joining the company as general manager.

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Writing’s on the Wall: 8 Surfaces Perfect for Brainstorming

Writing’s on the Wall: 8 Surfaces Perfect for Brainstorming

Erasing is also a form of creating, strange as that may sound. British artist Charlotte Mann demonstrated this notion at a boutique in Brooklyn with her site-specific work, Erasing Is Leaving a Mark. Her canvas, a wall treated with Wolf-Gordon’s Wink dry-erase coating, enabled Mann to not only add, but also remove marks in the densely detailed, large-scale drawing.

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