LINcast host Gabe Duverge is joined by Nick Gillissie, Head of Nick Gillissie Industrial Design, and Jordan Scott, LINAK Canada Country Manager. The trio recorded live from NeoCon 2018, discussing the trends they've noticed office furniture industry so far this year.
How Hospitality Design Makes Spaces (Of All Types) Better for Users
Fueled by growing consumerism and shifting generational preferences, people expect better experiences at the hospital, in a college student union and/or in the workplace. They expect immersive experiences that make their lives more enjoyable.
How Charles Eames came to have mixed feelings for his most famous chair
Eames himself evidently tired of his association with the chair in spite of the fame and riches it brought him.
Watch: Cappellini’s Scouting Comes To Light
In the Haworth 2018 NeoCon showroom, Cappellini’s continuous hunt for new designers was visually represented by a variety of artistic pieces.
China’s next generation companies power its globalization
China is poised to become a major exporter of innovation, ideas and home-grown products as it enters a new phase in its globalization, fueled by a new breed of dynamic private companies.
How creating the new Workplace will help create the new Store!
In Conversation With Tom Lloyd & Luke Pearson
Knoll Returns to the Bauhaus
Demetrio Apollini, Knoll Europe President, and Karen Stone, Knoll Design Director, discuss the brand's deep roots with the Bauhaus.
MODERN FURNITURE WAS ONCE SOLD AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO HOURS OF TEDIOUS DUSTING
Judging from the slick catalogues and glossy magazine spreads today, it’s easy to forget that modern furniture was once marketed as a time-saving solution to relieve women from hours of housework.
Shimoda Design Group Experiments with Tactility, Color, and Pattern at Steelcase’s New Chicago Showroom
“In this space, and in all the spaces that we do together, we really challenge you to see something differently, even though you’ve seen it many times before,” says Joey Shimoda.
Industrial Designer Todd Bracher is Making User Experience a Priority in His Products
The designer discusses his approach to workplace design, and his new forays into branding strategy to give manufacturers a global edge.
Design Within Reach Enters the Nashville Market with a New Studio in The Gulch
Herman Miller owned Design Within Reach, a retailer of authentic modern furniture and accessories, today announces the opening of its newest retail Studio in The Gulch in Nashville, Tennessee.
To improve open-plan offices, look at the evolution of elementary school classrooms
In the search for answers to fix the tyranny of open-plan offices, researching the history of elementary classrooms yields a surprising catalog of ideas.
Is Walmart selling knockoffs of classic midcentury modern furniture?
“What Walmart is doing is ridiculous,” says John Edelman, CEO of both of Herman Miller Consumer and Design Within Reach. “They could be innovators in design, and this is just a cheap shortcut.”
MEET DESIGN’S NEW CATEGORY: RESIMERCIAL
If you haven’t done the math, take our word for it: Residential plus commercial equals resimercial, or interior design for commercial spaces that embraces the qualities of the home.
When offices die, how do you design an office chair?
When you look around at your office, what do you see? Maybe it seems like just a bunch of chairs and tables, a few conference rooms. But that entire set up is built on an assumption about what work means, inherited from the 19th century.
Pablo Pardo on the Role of NeoCon in the LED Revolution
The founder of the lighting company Pablo, designer Pablo Pardo has launched a series of award-winning LED solutions at NeoCon.
The Barcelona Chair Wins the Wall Street Journal Unimprovable Award
Mies van der Rohe’s 1929 design is recognized by editors as timeless and perfect in Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything magazine.
Tom Powers, CEO of Global Interior Architecture Firm IA, on the Changing Designer-Client Relationship
In his Q&A with Metropolis, Powers also discusses how technology drives workplace design and how NeoCon is evolving.
Design Thinking and the Innovative Workplace
Design Thinking involves a creative, agile mindset that incorporates the ability to ask questions from a variety of vantage points.