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.
A.J. Paron-Wildes, National Architectural and Design Manager for Allsteel, is a presenter at SXSW EDU, the education component of the South by Southwest® (SXSW®) family of conferences and festivals, to be held March 5–8 in Austin.
For the first time ever, Calligaris, the Manzano, Italy-based maker of seating will showcase their highly popular contract collection during the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2018 (February 6-10).
Registration is now open for the 50th edition of NeoCon, the world’s leading platform and most important event of the year for the commercial design industry. NeoCon 50 will take place from June 11-13, 2018 at The Mart in Chicago.
In the last nine years imm cologne has changed appreciably under its Creative Director Dick Spierenburg. Fabian Peters spoke to the designer about innovative concepts, talented young designers and his "side job" at the Museum of Applied Art Cologne (MAKK).
NeoCon East is dead. At least for now. And depending on who you ask, the show has been dying a slow death and deserves to be killed, or it is one of the best ways to connect with East Coast customers and will be sorely missed.
Configura, maker of CET Designer software, has announced the winners of the 10th annual CET Designer Awards, a competition honoring best uses of the space-planning software used throughout the world by interior designers, salespeople and facility planners.
The manageable size and scale of the exhibition allowed us to see things in a more focused and intimate way than the more robust NeoCon in June.
Delegate numbers at the conference were clearly down on previous years, largely because of uncertainty about whether it could go ahead during a key booking period. And, while Houston seems a perfectly nice city, it isn’t as attractive a venue as last year’s, San Diego, while the physical evidence of the floods can be seen in huge piles of sandy sludge, dredged from the local bayous after the flooding, which cover the parks and river banks of the city.
The interview with Tamar Shafrir is the first of a series of insights on the Dutch Design Week, one of the most influential event in the contemporary design world.
A.J. Paron-Wildes, National Architectural and Design Manager for Allsteel, is a key presenter at this year’s Greenbuild International Conference & Expo, the world’s largest and most influential green building conference, to be held November 8–10 in Boston.
Those working within the built environment are already in the change business, was the view of Neil Usher in his presentation at the Workplace Trends Conference which was held in London this week. This was apt, as the changing business of work’ was the theme of the conference. It’s a pretty common topic these days of course but a strong line up of speakers ensured some interesting discussions; which included the rise of the gig economy, the variety of ways people from different cultures perceive workplace design and predictions on the workplaces of the future. On the current design and fit out of the office, Usher was clear; that creating a fantastic workplace is independent of culture, location, the work style you want to create and the sector in which you’re working. His other mantra was that you can still work in an awful workplace with great technology, but not the other way around, which is why there is no excuse for not getting your technology right.
On this point came a pertinent question posed by Paul Miller, CEO and Founder of the Digital Workplace Group (DWG) and co-author of The Digital Renaissance of Work: Delivering digital workplaces fit for the future: “Would CEO’s and business leaders who admit they are digitally illiterate sustain a business career if they were similarly unable to read?’ How effective can they be, he asked, if they don’t understand the fundamental impact new technology is making on the workplace?
It is impossible to review the London Design Festival without mentioning its scale. With more than 400 events stretching across the capital from Decorex in Syon Park in the west to the edgier Shoreditch Design Triangle in the city's east end, it is only possible for a person to scratch this nine-day event's surface.
Starting October 1, you can shop pink versions of products designed by Harry Bertoia and Florence Knoll.
Conference returns to Las Vegas and features keynote presenter Suzette Subance Ferrier, Contract magazine’s Designer of the Year
Because a vast show like Clerkenwell Design Week is about as easy to digest as a whale omelette, visitors often find themselves discussing with other people what is worth seeing and, perhaps more importantly, what they think its themes are. At this year’s show, the fine weather meant it was possible for people to occupy the pavements with a drink and share a general feeling that in terms of workplace design, there were few, if any, standout products and that most of the themes were now pretty well understood.
We’ve just returned from another NYCxDESIGN which always wraps up with several days spent walking the aisles of the Javits Center for ICFF (International Contemporary Furniture Fair). This year’s ICFF was 30% bigger than years past, which meant way more things to see and check out. To kick things off, here is the first part of our favorites:
NYCxDesign, New York City’s annual celebration of design in all its forms, kicks off again this week and will run through May 24. Now in its fifth year, the extravaganza triples down on design events, with over 500 things to do across all five boroughs.
The biggest trade fair, ICFF at the Javits Center, is complemented by independent upstarts like Collective Design (combining 20th-century antiques with gallery-level contemporary pieces), Wanted (a platform for emerging design and material innovation), Sight Unseen OFFSITE (young designers with a cutting-edge bent), and BKLYN Designs (more design!.. but in Brooklyn). For 2017, design-centric programming spills into the city’s museums, shopping districts, and public spaces.
From the inner workings of the mind to the outer limits of the galaxy, Friday’s keynote at the 2017 AIA conference expanded the conversation well beyond the traditional boundaries of design.
Michael Bierut of Pentagram moderated a panel called “Design that Overcomes,” which included Dan Goods and David Delgado from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Dr. Eve Edelstein, the director of Perkins+Will’s Human Experience Lab.
To say the air was electric before Michelle Obama took the stage at the American Institute of Architects 2017 conference would be an understatement. Thousands lined up more than an hour early at the doors of the auditorium in Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center. Some sported “When they go low, we go high,” t-shirts. Even AIA president, Thomas Vonier, was giddy. “This is really happening,” he told a packed house of more than 10,000 architects.
The former first lady of the United States, in her first public appearance since leaving the White House in January, was more pragmatic. She told Vonier, “It’s good to get out of the house.”
