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DIRTT Comes Clean on Its Latest Innovations

Officeinsight publisher Bob Beck traveled to Calgary, Alberta to visit DIRTT and see what they’ve been up to this past year. Along with plenty of DIRTT humor and goodwill, he found innovations in 3d visualization for interior planning, improvements in ICE VR and several new ,manufacturing processes to bring innovation to market.

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Prism Perfect: Electronic Ink Tech at E Ink

Last year at NeoCon, a company called E Ink garnered significant attention as it made its NeoCon debut on the 8th floor. Since then, the E Ink team has been very busy, showing its product, E Ink Prism, at shows like the 2015 Society of Experiential Graphic Design Conference in Chicago, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, and most recently at Salone del Mobile in Milan. As you’ll see the product is very promising for all sorts of interior applications, but try saying the company name three times quickly!

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Designing Around a View: An NYC Hedge Fund’s New Offices

When NYC hedge fund firm Magnitude Capital came to New York-based A&D firm Spector Group with plans for a new corporate office, they requested that the new space focus on one inspiration: they wanted it to be effortless. However, effortless, like the word simple, is much more easily talked about than accomplished, as designers of any discipline will acknowledge.

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Last week I went to Calgary, Alberta to visit DIRTT and see for myself what DIRTTy tricks they’d been up to since I visited last year at about this time. As it usually happens when you visit DIRTT, one of the first people I encountered was co-founder and CEO, Mogens Smed. Since it was the first time I’d seen him this year, I started the conversation by congratulating him on the company’s 2015 results, clear-ing the $200million (Canadian $) hurdle for the first time with a remarkable 26.3% revenue growth rate over 2014. His response was, “Yes, but it should be so much more…if people just understood how much better our solutions are than building with traditional building techniques, like drywall, we’d be 3 or 4 times that size by now.” I thought the answer spoke volumes about the attitude of an entre-preneur capable of that level of success.

Personally, I haven’t met that many people who have built more than one company from start-up to over $100million in sales. I know they exist; I just haven’t met them. So talk-ing with Mr. Smed is a real treat for me. It gives me some insight into the way of thinking that can do it. When he founded DIRTT (for ‘Doing It Right This Time’, for you indus-

DIRTT Comes Clean on Its Latest InnovationsBy Bob Beck

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companiestry novices) along with his partners, Geoff Gosling and Barrie Loberg, they were all veterans of highly successful companies. So doing it right this time had more to do with founding prin-ciples than clever slogans. To name a few of those founding principles, I’ll start with using technology to innovate, being as environmentally conscious as possible and building a fun, engag-ing corporate culture, and more. The proof of the pudding is in the eating,

so I was keen to see how the company was doing given such lofty founding principles.

The software system ICE® is an im-portant underpinning of the principle of using technology to innovate. The brainchild of co-founder, Mr. Loberg, ICE® has been internally developed as an extraordinarily user friendly front-end software tool for interior design layout, client communication through project visualization, order planning,

pricing and then production planning. Apparently, one of the breakthrough innovative ideas embodied in ICE® is that it is based on computer-gaming technology rather than the more com-mon starting point of CAD drawing programs. This difference has given it certain advantages in speed and visu-alization capabilities from the get-go.

For the most part, 3D visualization in the world of commercial interior design is currently 3D projection as viewed on a 2D flat screen. DIRTT has now taken its ICE 3D visualization program and added realistic outdoor elements - this is called ICEscape and Mark Rudolph and Dave Drebit of the ICE team showed me the latest release. The resolution is nearing photoreal-istic and a new twist is the ability to pick from among several background options for what a person would see out the window of the demoed space. Also new and very interesting given the trend to greater attention being paid to get natural daylight into the workplace is the ability to input longitude and latitude coordinates and directional ori-entation. Then the program simulates the sun’s travel across the sky and the resulting daylight pattern in the space throughout the day and for various seasons. Mr. Drebit cautioned that the program only produces a simulation, and is not a substitute for a thorough sun study. But it is very cool to be able to quickly see approximately how daylight will penetrate various design alternatives.

The next big thing is 3D projection in virtual reality (VR) through a goggle ap-paratus that in the case of the Micro-soft solution allows the viewer to see a holographic projection in 3D, or in other cases, such as using Oculus Rift, to perceive the view inside the goggles as the viewer’s actual surroundings. As the Oculus Rift website explains, “Rift uses state of the art displays and optics designed specifically for VR. Its high refresh rate and low-persistence Bob in VR

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On my visit last year I was outfitted with an early Oculus Rift goggle set and I walked through a VR simulation of a small office space I had helped layout and detail only moments before. While far from perfect, the experience was an order of magnitude more real-istic than a typical 3D flythrough. So one of my objectives for this year’s visit was to see what progress had been made. Messrs. Rudolph and Drebit were my VR guides and after outfitting me with the Oculus Rift they welcomed me to the virtual tour of a space they’d just completed for demonstrations at Connext in Chicago, concurrent with NeoCon.

Here I must digress. DIRTT doesn’t have showrooms, as we normally do in the furniture industry, they have Green Learning Centres. And it doesn’t have showrooms because it’s in the construction industry not the furniture industry. Mr. Smed consistently makes this point to everyone and the fact that many people think of DIRTT as a furniture company is partially what drives his “…if people just under-stood…” comments. Anyway, the Chi-cago Green Learning Centre (GLC) is located at 325 N. Wells, just across the street from the Merchandise Mart. The name NeoCon® is the property of the Merchandise Mart Properties/Vornado and may not be used by anyone who isn’t a tenant of the Merchandise Mart to describe an event that is concurrent with NeoCon, so DIRTT has Connext during that period. To me, this is all part of the entrepreneurial spirit that suffuses the company – smart, witty and just a little in-your-face.

Meanwhile back at the design visualization area, I experienced some improvement in the queasiness factor (last year my brain had a hard

time adjusting to the virtual environ-ment and the net affect was a slightly unstable, queasy feeling). The render-ing of the space seemed to be at a better resolution this year, but when I consider this as a tool for communicat-ing design intent to a client the real wow factors were already in place last year. When I asked my guides about progress in rolling the technology out to the market they explained that they had been unable to actively offer the capability to anyone because Oculus and others had delayed the broad scale introduction of the hardware re-quired for a true launch. Now that the hardware logjam has broken, I expect we will start to see DIRTT’s Distribution Partners (analogous to dealers in the furniture industry) implementing ICE VR. I believe VR will eventually save the construction and furnishings in-

dustries huge sums of time and money now spent on mock-ups and other techniques of communication to show clients what it is they’re buying – to say nothing of showing contractors the design intent and getting their input before it’s built.

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through for manufacturing back painted glass panels. The use of back painted glass in commercial interiors is not new, but recently the medium has experienced a growth spurt. Panels manufactured using Willow Glass have all the advantages of regular glass for back painted applications, such as non-ghosting dry-erase “whiteboards,” and for embedded technology such as monitors and TVs. But additionally, glass panels constructed by laminat-ing Willow Glass to a substrate such as MDF are lighter and more durable than glass, can be shipped flat – saving shipping costs and are much easier to install. From a decorative standpoint new digital printing techniques allow the “back-printing” at an extraordinary resolution giving designers an amazing canvas for creating designs and motifs or simulating designs and motifs of na-ture. In the case of marble and other stone types it allows us to, “…leave the marble undisturbed in the mountain;” the highest form of sustainability.

Outside the venture capital world of Silicon Valley it is rare to find a compa-ny willing and able to invest huge sums of money in a product or process that has no immediate return prospects. Three-year paybacks are the rule and 5 years are a stretch. But at DIRTT, on the strength of Mr. Smed’s belief that timber construction is inherently more

sustainable than other methods, it has made a huge investment in designing and developing a whole new business around processing timber in a fac-tory in order to facilitate prefab timber construction of buildings.

As of today there is minimal demand for such a thing, but consistent with its “build it and they will come” philosophy,

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companiesDIRTT is working diligently to perfect and automate woodworking at a very innovative level – both innovative and retrograde at the same time. State of the art milling machines allow the company to process very large glue-lam “logs” to a consistent level of precision that is not possible by hand, but which uses tradi-tional fastening and joining techniques that minimize the need for mechanical fasteners. Yep! Precision mortise and tenon joinery on giant beams!

To prove the concept Mr. Smed commissioned the design of a mezza-nine needed to accommodate DIRTT’s growing staff. But rather than building it using steel and concrete, the design used traditional timber frame construc-tion. The result is sustainable, fully functional and if you happen to see it from below, beautiful.

As I toured the timber frame facility I came across a large case on cast-ers that had accumulated some dust.

Someone had written a message in the dust (see photo) and I thought it was a perfect reflection of the attitudes I found throughout the organization.

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Last year at NeoCon, a company called E Ink garnered significant attention as it made its NeoCon debut on the 8th floor. Since then, the E Ink team has been very busy, show-ing its product, E Ink Prism, at shows like the 2015 Society of Experiential Graphic Design Conference in Chicago, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, and most recently at Salone del Mobile in Milan.

For the less tech-minded, journeying into the technology sections at NeoCon can be a slightly intimidating experi-ence… “What will I find there?” “How will these things apply to me?” “Will these products require me to learn a bunch of new software programs?” “These products are all probably super expensive.” “Ugh.”

The reality is that the tech sections of NeoCon have some of the coolest stuff available – and thankfully, that includes E Ink.

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tronic ink technology. Until recently, the company has enjoyed a successful life in the hi-tech consumer electron-ics market, applying its technology to ePaper and eReader applications. Now, with the introduction of its Prism product, it’s taking a deep dive into the architectural products market.

E Ink Prism combines color chang-ing electronic ink tech with architec-tural products and applications to instantly change the color of a wall, ceiling panel, furniture piece, or entire room. The product is a manifestation of an “experience” heavy marketing strat-egy that many companies are using to engage talent, clients and customers.

Put simply, it exists somewhere be-tween static paint elements and power-hungry digital displays. Prism can be applied as a film to many existing architectural products – think glass, acrylics, MDF, and other materials – to transform the way people experience a space.

So what exactly is electronic ink, and how does it work? For the nitty-gritty tech details behind the E Ink, check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqu1--AzM7U&feature=youtu.be. Electronic ink is tricky to explain, so we’ll defer to Joe Fillion, senior business develop-ment manager at E Ink, to spell out the basics:

>“The material is made up of many microscopic capsules slightly larger than the size of your hair. 

>Each capsule contains colored pig-ment. The video tutorial contains black and white, Prism would also include colored pigments.

>The pigments used are the same as those used in traditional printing but they have been modified to be re-sponsive to electrical current. It takes a static material and makes it dynamic.

>The capsules are placed between two conductive layers of film. When voltage is applied to one side of the film, the pigments switch from top to bottom or bottom to top. The top side of the film is the visible color.”

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Prism can be used to accomplish a broad range of design goals – interiors professionals can use it to elevate a client’s corporate visual branding, boost visitor engagement, build an interac-tive setting, or develop a one-of-a-kind “wow” experience for users. Designers can play with color, shapes, and patterns when designing a Prism application.

“Doors can indicate if a conference room is occupied, wall designs can re-spond to noise, temperature, or motion in the room,” details E Ink’s website.

Space applications include everything from commercial, hospitality and health-care lobbies and receptions, to airport terminals, public auditoriums, customer reception areas and displays in retail spaces, and more. Corporate, institu-tional, hospitality, healthcare, exhibit and retail market segments are all fair game.

What are Prism’s differentiators?>Prism-activated materials are

full programmable, and can change automatically, with various speeds, or remain static as a locked experience.

>Low power consumption: Once Prism is initially activated with a very small amount of power, it requires no further power to maintain its charge; “While it requires electrical current to make the pigments move within the capsule, it is not required to hold the pigments in place,” explains Mr. Fillion. “For example, an eReader only uses power to change the page, not keep the image on the page. This means a significant reduction in power consumption vs. other technologies, whether it be a display or architectural colors (e.g. LEDs).” And, no electrical outlets are required.

>Sustainably friendly: In addition to helping cut costs, Prism’s low power consumption makes it a sustainable alternative to fully digital solutions.

>Prism is fully reflective, not emis-sive: “Because E Ink is made of pigments, it behaves similarly to paint where its appearance improves as the ambient light increases,” notes Mr. Fil-lion. “In comparison, LCD displays and LED lighting emit light and therefore compete with brighter ambient envi-ronments.”

Prism is scalable in nature, which enables designer’s use it on various budget levels; interior architects and designers can create a captivating focal point by changing one panel or reception desk, or transform an entire space with a large-scale custom instal-lation.

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price of paint – it’s an application that designers will use when they want to make a concerted effort to go to a dif-ferent level,” noted Mr. Fillion.

Where static materials such as paint exist at the lower end of the cost spec-trum, and fully digital solutions at the higher end, Prism exists somewhere in between as a moderate cost option.

This year at NeoCon, E Ink will find a home in the “Finishes, Materials + Interior Building Products” section of the newly minted 7th floor Exhibit Hall, at the west end of the floor near Corn-ing and Dyson. At the booth, visitors will find samples and design demos, and will be able to experience Prism through various design sequences.

The booth will also show a replica of eFLOW, an interactive sculpture de-

signed with E Ink Prism technology by experiential design firm Ueberall that was displayed at Superstudio during Salone; the sculpture includes sensors

enabling it to be responsive to human movement (E Ink would have brought the original sculpture, but installation requires a 22-foot ceiling).

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E Ink Prism is an embodiment of a company scaling its technology to new markets, and of a successful colliding of the tech and A&D communities. E Ink founders Joseph Jacobson, Barrett Comiskey and JD Albert were recently inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame for their invention of electronic ink – inclusion in this group is elite; just over 500 inventions are part of the Hall of Fame from the more than 9 million patents registered with the U.S. Patent office.

“This is one of many applications where E Ink technology can disrupt a market, the same way it revolution-ized the reading market,” said E Ink Chairman Frank Ko, in Prism’s press release. The release continues, “In developing Prism, E Ink scientists built on the wealth of E Ink’s existing intel-lectual property and further expanded the technology in a number of areas. Prism is a great example of E Ink’s commitment to long term research and investment to develop new products geared toward new markets.”

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When NYC hedge fund firm Magnitude Capital came to New York-based A&D firm Spector Group with plans for a new corporate office, they requested that the new space focus on one inspiration: they wanted it to be effortless.

Effortless, like the word simple, is much easier talked about than accomplished, as designers of any discipline will acknowledge.

And, effortlessness can take many forms. The way Roger Federer plays tennis is effortless, and the way Michael Jackson recorded albums and performed on stage was effortless too – with obvious differences but both with the same remarkable grace. So too, with space. A nautical hospitality-inspired space can be effortless, though not quite the same effortless as a smooth, minimal Japanese-inspired space would be, and vice versa.

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wanted its new offices to be open, inviting, elegant and unique – all underscored by this effortlessness, noted Marc Spector, principal, Spector Group.

“Effortlessness has a lot of verticals – layout, lighting, materials,” said Mr. Spector. “We needed to translate that concept to simplicity of materials, simplicity of lighting. Every piece has to flow together seamlessly.”

When the Spector Group design team first entered the new space, set atop 200 Park Avenue, spectacular views to the North, South and East immediately caught their attention; the Chrysler Building, in particular, commands attention.

“It almost feels like you could reach out the window and touch it – you can even see the detail of the metal,” said Mr. Spector. “It really became a piece of art within the Magnitude space.”

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From that point forward, the Chrys-ler Building views informed the design thinking on all levels, from layout to materials and finishes, through to furniture.

“We thought, ‘Wow – how can we picture frame this view to work per-fectly within this space?”

The 20,000 square foot office is anchored by a curvilinear core wall, which the design time used to create a fluid movement of circulation from entryway to wayfinding around the core and into the full office. Lining this core at the heart of the space are vertical walnut fins – millwork that guides users through to the office’s collaborative spaces, open worksta-tion neighborhoods, meeting rooms, and communal kitchen area.

Spector Group designed the new offices to maximize collaboration, with just five private offices and several workstation “neighborhoods.” Floor Plan

Spector built glass-enclosed conference rooms and individual phone booth rooms into a curvilinear core designed to create a fluid movement of circulation.

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“We lessened the footprint per per-son, and at the same time activated the floor plate for more people.”

The neighborhoods are reinforced by suspended ceiling “clouds” cus-tom cut into shapes, referencing a city block atmosphere. In addition to anchoring each area within the large open plan space, the suspended ceilings also help ground the office in other ways.

“We didn’t want to compromise the height of the ceilings so that users could still enjoy them,” said Mr. Spec-tor. “The suspended clouds allowed us to hide things we couldn’t other-wise, and also gave us the acoustical quality we needed.”

Spector designed all of the new workstations, which existed in an ‘L’ shape design in the previous office,

The Spector design team incorporated Magnitude Capital Owner Benjamin Appen’s love of plants and plant sculptures by designing several topiaries into the new office’s floor plan.

Floor-to-ceiling glass-fronted conference rooms allow sightlines to extend across main thoroughfares and through to windows.

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The design also builds extensive space for living plants into the office. Tapping into Magnitude CEO Benja-min Appen’s love of plants and plant sculptures, the Spector design team developed a series of custom glass enclosed topiaries filled with low-water plants; the topiaries mark each neigh-borhood and provide a transition from the straight lines of the work areas to the core’s curved walkway.

“We wanted them to define the circulation path,” noted Mr. Spector.

Spector expanded it use of glass to

The food zone and adjacent lounge area are key to Magnitude’s “foodie culture” and its habit of eating together often.

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a&dinclude floor-to-ceiling glass-fronted conference rooms and phone booth spaces, allowing sightlines to ex-tend across main thoroughfares and through to windows.

Dining together is an essential part of Magnitude Capital’s culture, and the company provides lunch two times each week for its team members. To support that tradition, Spector group designed a food zone with two parallel serveries and space for 100 people to dine, lounge, and circulate through comfortably.

“We designed the food zone to al-low four to five people to feel comfort-able hanging out there, or 100 people to fit there comfortably as well, without losing the architecture of the space,” said Mr. Spector. “It allows people to linger and socialize, and that’s very critical to their culture.”

Just as the layout of the new offices underscores the views of the Chrysler Building, so too do the aesthetics and furniture. The space refrains from loud excess, because it doesn’t need it. Simple materials of stone and wood

and a palette of neutrals and muted metals offer a softer, welcoming re-finement. As requested by Magnitude, Spector fitted the space with classic furniture pieces, opting out of trendy, super contemporary choices.

Magnitude Capital is a superb ex-ample of letting a space breathe. The Spector Group design team listened to broad-scale requests from the client that could have resulted in a ream of missteps. Instead, the new offices are just what Magnitude asked for: invit-ing, refined, open and effortless. n

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r-d connectionRESEARCH-DESIGN CONNECTIONBuild in a Coffee Cornerby Sally Augustin, Ph.D.

Work by Welsh and team indicates the value of designing coffee corners into many types of spaces. The group reports that “Employees are getting less sleep, which has been shown to deplete self-regulatory resources and increase unethical behavior…caffeine moderates the relationship between

sleep deprivation and depletion by replenishing self-regulatory resources.” Study participants who were sleep de-prived but chewed gum that dispensed as much caffeine as in a 12 ounce cup of coffee were significantly more likely to behave honestly than people who had not chewed the caffeinated gum, even when they were encouraged by someone on the research team to behave dishonestly. n

D. Welsh, A. Ellis, M. Christian, and K. Mai. 2014. “Building a Self-Regula-tory Model of Sleep Deprivation and De-ception: The Role of Caffeine and Social Influence.” Journal of Applied Psychol-ogy, vol. 99, no. 6, pp. 1268-1277.

Sally Augustin, PhD, a cognitive sci-entist, is the editor of Research Design Connections (www.researchdesigncon-

nections.com), a monthly subscription newsletter and free daily blog, where recent and classic research in the social, design, and physical sciences that can inform designers’ work are presented in straightforward language. Readers learn about the latest re-search findings immediately, before they’re available elsewhere. Sally, who is a Fellow of the American Psycho-logical Association, is also the author of Place Advantage: Applied Psychol-ogy for Interior Architecture (Wiley, 2009) and, with Cindy Coleman, The Designer’s Guide to Doing Research: Applying Knowledge to Inform Design (Wiley, 2012). She is a principal at Design With Science (www.designwith-science.com) and can be reached at sallyaugustin@designwithscience.com.

MATERIAL OF THE WEEK

MC# 7331-01Patent: This patent leather by Tiger Imports Group, LLC., is from European cow hides and offers a decorative high traffic surface. Polyurethane is used to coat these supple leathers in a range of textured patterns and smoother surfaces that mimic exotic animal skins. The hides are first aniline dyed in a drum. Then, textured effects are added, followed by a patent solution to create the glossy surface. The hides pass NFPA 260 class 1, Boston-BFD IX-1 and Cal 117 for fire retardance. Applica-tions include interior upholstery applications in high traffic areas such as couches, banquettes, ottomans and vertical wall surfaces.

This column is published in collaboration with Material ConneXion. For more information regarding the material previewed, please contact Michael LaGreca at mlagreca@materialconnexion.com. T: 212.842.2050.

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officenewswirePRODUCT INTROS>AGATI launched Pod Duo, an evolution of its popular Pod side-entrance study car-rel design. After only being on the market for one year, interest in the single-user Pod among universities and librar-ies has been strong, and the feedback received from users at these institutions is part of the impetus for designing a Pod that accommodates two people. Like the single-user Pod, Pod Duo covers the backs of both users, prevent-ing wandering eyes from seeing laptop screens and tablets. While this may appear to play into unnecessary para-noia, it really comes down to basic biology: when a human is aware their back is not exposed to any threats, they are inherently at ease and able to more clearly focus on other activities (in this case, studying). Both Pod and Pod

Duo create a space within a space with its fabric-covered walls that dampen ambient sound and prevent the library patrons’ eyes from observing minor visual distractions. At the same time, these walls are at a height where enjoy-ment of the greater space al-lows one to not feel confined and isolated from the overall environment. The Pod Duo facilitates a very common approach to learning: buddy studying. Increasingly and especially true of millennials, pairs of friends/classmates can be found peppered throughout libraries work-ing on their individual tasks. These “duos” are not neces-sarily involved in a group proj-ect; rather, it is nothing more than a comfort mechanism of having a familiar face along while learning. Beyond buddy studying, Pod Duo easily facilitates the requirement for two people to collaborate

on a single task. Each user is situated such that direct eye contact is effortless, and the integrated table easily accom-modates two standard laptops and space for reference materials. Pod Duo offers a choice of fabrics and work surfaces in different colors and patterns. All of these options are harmonized with the single-user Pod, so librar-ies can have an assortment of Pods and Pod Duos that feature an identical aesthetic. The Pod Duo is currently on display at the Agati Show-room in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood. It will make its first trade show appearance at ALA Orlando (June 23-28, 2016) at the Agati Booth #833. Read More

>Arcadia introduced Livia Benches, an indoor and out-door seating solution. De-signed by Southern California-based designer Christopher Panichella, who also part-nered with Arcadia on its successful Radiant, Achella, and Ovate Collections, Livia is offered with straight wood

beams, or a scallop design that creates a wave-like vi-sual effect in varying degrees based on the viewing angle. Both styles feature an alluring side profile, achieved through the use of varying beam depths, giving the series its signature tapered look. Livia is available in a variety of sizes (26”, 48”, 60” and 72”) and in an assortment of wood species and metal finishes. Indoor benches are offered in Maple and Walnut, as well as White Oak, and are con-structed with metal frames and spacers that come in a wide array of standard and premium finish selections. Outdoor models are manufac-tured in Ipe wood species that is sealed with a natural oil fin-ish, paired with a hot-dipped galvanized metal frame, and finished with a special primer to protect against the elements. Optional seat pads are also available on indoor, straight bench models, for added comfort and appeal—anywhere a touch of color or splash of pattern is desired. Read More

For complete releases, visit www.officeinsight.com/officenewswire.

Arcadia: Livia scalloped outdoor benchesAGATI: Pod Duo

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>Innovant increased its selection of standard Luna Textiles for use on privacy panels, tackable wall boards, and cushioned pedestals. For panel applications, Innov-ant now offers Luna’s Stitch collection. Woven from 100% Eco-Intelligent polyester, this line is available in six standard colorways. Innovant has also graded in two dual purpose patterns, Acolyte and Hush, which provide the flex-ibility of both panel and cush-ion applications. Acolyte is a versatile, high-performance, bleach-cleanable fabric. Its rich and lively surface of variegated color evokes the unique charm of natural, handwoven fibers. Hush takes its cues from the bouclé texture of couture fabric, interpreted as high-perfor-mance polyester to address the demands of contract envi-ronments, and features 90% recycled content available in 13 colors. Read More

>LightArt, the award-winning lighting division of 3form, debuted its new FIVE X collection at Wanted Design as well as a new Connected line extension featuring a short profile at ICFF. FIVE X, a collaboration with French design studio iwoodlove,

harnesses the potential of digital technology and design know-how to bridge the gap between organic and rectilinear shapes. LightArt’s LA2 Connected system is now available in a shorter profile, ideal for low ceilings and a sleeker look. The system of light fixtures comes in a standardized kit of parts that

can be connected in various shapes and configurations. With the ability to turn cor-ners, extend down hallways and move throughout rooms and open spaces, Connected offers an unconventional wayfinding solution. It unifies spaces while also offering an opportunity to integrate color into the environmental design to subtly draw atten-tion to company branding. The LA2 designs come in six standard colors, but are also specifiable in a wide range of colors including 3form’s 250 new color offerings. Its fully integrated LED components are UL compliant and feature dimming capability. Read More

NOTEWORTHY>Steven Lang, President and CEO of Dancker, Sellew & Douglas, was named a final-ist for the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2016 Award in the state of New Jersey. DS&D, an interiors solu-tions building company, was founded in 1829 and is the only company in the interiors segment for the state of New Jersey that is a finalist. Since taking over as President & CEO for DS&D namesake Scott Douglas in 2012, Mr. Lang has instilled a customer-centric philosophy. His clear, strategic blueprint is aimed at building and sustaining market leadership position for the century-plus-old organiza-tion. Exemplary successes under Lang’s tenure include the recent announcement of a distinctive third consecutive year Platinum Partnership with leading furniture manu-facturer Steelcase, which places DS&D in the top 5% of Steelcase dealers nation-ally. Now in its 30th year, the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year program has expanded to

Innovant NIGEL Desking finished with Luna Textiles fabric

Light Art: FIVE X

Light Art: Connected Steven Lang

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officenewswirerecognize business leaders in more than 145 cities in more than 60 countries throughout the world. New Jersey award winners will be announced at a special gala Jun. 23 at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick, NJ. Regional award winners are eligible for consideration for the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year National program, with win-ners announced in November at a gala in Palm Springs, CA, the culminating event of the EY Strategic Growth Forum®. Read More

>Greg Meunier was promoted to Vice President of Global Operations for National Of-fice Furniture. In this role, he will have responsibility for the organization’s manufactur-ing facilities, supply chain, engineering, finish operations, continuous improvement, and safety. Mr. Meunier has more than 27 years of experience in operations within Kimball International, with proven leadership abilities in manu-facturing and continuous improvement. Most recently, he served as Director of Casegoods Operations, with responsibility for the Santa Claus, IN, and Fordsville, KY, facilities. Read More

>Shelley Siegel, FASID, CAPS, was appointed to the U.S. Access Board by Presi-dent Obama. The Board, created in 1973 to ensure access to federally funded fa-cilities, expanded its mission to the regulation and imple-mentation of the Americans with Disabilities Act when the law passed in 1990. As such, it provides design criteria, technical assistance, and training, as well as issuing accessibility standards for the built environment. Overall it is a leading source of informa-tion on accessible design and a strong advocate for people with disabilities. Ms. Siegel’s 44 years as a principal of the Siegel Design Group and 35 years as founder and CEO of the Universal Design & Education Network have been dedicated to bringing aesthetically pleasing univer-sal design concepts to the home, workplace, hospitality, and healthcare environments. She holds a degree in Interior Design, a Master’s Degree in Gerontology, is a licensed interior designer in the State of Florida, is NCIDQ certi-fied, and is a member of the College of Fellows of ASID. She has served on numerous boards and committees to share her expertise on ADA and universal design matters, and has authored countless articles on barrier-free and universal design. In 2010, she was inducted into the ASID Florida Chapter Hall of Fame. “We applaud President Obama’s decision to appoint a Licensed Interior Designer to the U.S. Access Board,” said ASID CEO Randy Fiser. “Shel-

ley is a pioneer and testament to the fact that interior design-ers are experts on designing for and meeting accessibility standards in the built environ-ment.” Read More

>Suzanne Tick spoke at this year’s TEDxNavesink #Mak-ers conference at Monmouth University. The annual conference featured talks by 30 makers from New Jersey, New York and around the globe. Ms. Tick’s talk, “Weav-ing Trash Into Treasure” explores the narrative of using the power of weaving and the craft of alchemy to trans-form discarded objects into beauty and art, along with the

therapeutic effect of trans-forming a negative psyche to a positive one. Through its process of meditative repeti-tion, the weaving of each art piece is a contemplation of personal growth and sig-nificance. “Transformation has been a big theme in my life…dualities unfold in my understanding of what bro-ken/disharmony and humor looks like thru the creation of my woven art pieces,” she said. “Three major woven art projects allowed me to delve more clearly onto the path to love and forgiveness. Gratitude in understanding…the differences of strength and weakness. Transforming my life thru found treasures.” Read More

>Lisa Tucker, Ph.D., IIDA, FIDEC, AIA, ASID, LEED AP BD+C, is the 2016 IIDA Educator of the Year. This award recognizes and celebrates the outstanding accomplishments and com-mitment to interior design education by a full-time

Greg Meunier

Shelley Siegel

Suzanne Tick’s TEDx Navesink #Makers Talk

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officenewswireeducator. Dr. Tucker is cur-rently an Associate Professor and the Interior Design Pro-gram Chair at Virginia Tech. She has been recognized nationally as one of the Most Admired Design Educators of 2010 by Design Intelligence; she was nominated for the Robert Cherry Award for Great Teaching by the Center for In-structional Design Education and Research in 2014; and in 2015, she was awarded the prestigious Nancy Vincent McClelland award for contributions to interior design education. At Virginia Tech, she has been honored with the School of Architec-ture and Design’s 2008 New Faculty Teaching Award, the College of Architecture and Urban Studies Teaching Award in 2008 and 2009, the College Certificate of Teach-ing Excellence in 2011, and the Alumni Teaching Award in 2013, which included induction into the university’s Academy of Teaching Excel-lence. The IIDA Educator of the Year Award, to be

presented during the IIDA Annual Meeting Jun. 12 in Chicago, includes a $10,000 prize sponsored by Milliken and a complimentary 2017 IIDA membership. “Professor Tucker is at the forefront of incorporating sustainability, historic preservation, and biophilic design into interior design education, providing valuable expertise to students on these extremely timely and critical topics,” said IIDA Executive Vice President and CEO Cheryl S. Durst, Hon. FIIDA, LEED AP. “In addition, her desire to positively impact her students through practical and theoretical experiences illustrates her deep commit-ment to interior design educa-tion.” Read More

>Arborite, Montreal-based manufacturer of high pres-sure laminate, is acquiring Lamin-Art, Inc., a leading brand of decorative surfaces in North America. The Scha-umburg, IL-based Lamin-Art was a privately-held business and will now operate as a part of the Wilsonart Engineered Surfaces organization. Kevin

Geijer, a 16 year Wilsonart veteran, was appointed General Manager of Lamin-Art. “The Lamin-Art business model nests beautifully into our brand strategy,” said Salvatore Rivera, president of Arborite. “Lamin-Art has earned a distinctive brand cachet in the commercial interior design markets. Their unique offering allows us to provide even more design and product choice to cus-tomers.”

“Lamin-Art is proud of our exceptional employees and the loyal customers we’ve earned over more than 50 years,” said Donald Krog, former owner and president of Lamin-Art. “Together with Arborite’s resources and expertise, the business will continue to evolve and grow.” Read More

>The Center for Active Design launched Fitwel, a new certification to support healthier building environ-ments and improve employee health and productivity. Fit-wel is a low-cost, high-impact building certification stan-dard created with the vision for a healthier future where every building is enhanced to support occupant wellbeing. Development of the new stan-dard was led by the General Services Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, looking to incentivize wellness support-ing building amenities and polices. Fitwel enables build-ings, often workplaces, to be assessed against a baseline of evidence-based criteria that define a health-promoting environment. It provides a set of more than 60 strategies that address the broad range of health risks within the building environment such as exposure to indoor pollutants and lack of access to healthy foods or places to get physical activity. Each criterion of the Fitwel scorecard is linked by scientific evidence to at least one of seven health impact categories. The system is designed to encourage facility managers to work continually to increase building scores. The self-assessment tool is web and mobile phone based with immediate calculation of

Lisa Tucker

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officenewswirerating. In office environments, Fitwel’s initial target market, the expected improvements in employee wellness may result in lower health care costs, lower rates of absentee-ism, and increased revenue from enhanced employee performance. Fitwel certifica-tion is expected to serve as a market differentiator to retain and attract tenants and future employees. The Center for Active Design will introduce Fitwel to targeted private sec-tor firms throughout this year, and it will be available for broader public use in 2017. Read More

>Flavor Paper swept the best wallcovering categories in the first-ever NYCxDESIGN Awards and ICFF Edi-tors’ Awards with two new attention-grabbing designs. ShweShwe, an exaggerated-print wallpaper created in collaboration with interior designer Ghislaine Viñas, was recognized with the NYCxDESIGN Award, while Flavor Paper’s latest collabo-ration, the fantasy landscape

mural Waynetopia by artist Wayne White, received the ICFF Editors’ Award for Best Wallcovering. ShweShwe takes its name from a printed, dyed cotton fabric that is often used in traditional South

African and Lesotho clothing and dates back to Europe in the 1800’s. The wallpaper’s colorways are based on South African wildlife and include Flamingo, Elephant, Kingfish-er and Impala. The digitally-printed wallpaper is available

on a number of materials, ranging from eco-friendly residential and commercial to vinyl and adhesive-backed fabric. Waynetopia is an expansive digital mural that brings new life to a dated dreamland inspired by 19th century scenic paintings. Artist Wayne White worked in TV for 25 years as a produc-tion designer creating sets, puppets, and animations for shows and videos including Pee-wee’s Playhouse, Shining Time Station, Beakman’s World, and The Smashing Pumpkin’s “Tonight, Tonight.” In 2000 he began his second career as a fine artist, with ex-hibitions of his paintings and sculptures in museums and galleries all over the world. Read More

>KI last week welcomed Atlanta designers to its showroom for an interactive charrette focusing on Active Design and the latest trends and best practices. The day began with a thought-provoking presentation with CEU credit presented by KI. Participants were then

Flavor Paper: Shwe Shwe by Ghislaine Viñas

Flavor Paper: Waynetopia by Wayne White KI Active Design Charrette

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officenewswiredivided into teams and given a real-world design challenge. Designers worked through the challenge incorporating Active Design best practices and then presented their final creative design solutions to the group. Designers from Gensler, Studio M Interiors, tvsdesign, Heery Interna-tional, Insight Design, Cooper Carry, Hillsman, Veenendaal-Cave, HLG Studio, HOK, SCAD and Idea Space were in attendance. Read More

>Kimball International, Inc., for the second consecutive year, was certified as a great workplace by the indepen-dent analysts at Great Place to Work®. This credential is based on ratings provided by its employees in anonymous surveys. Kimball International employees completed 1,092 surveys, resulting in a 90% confidence level and a margin of error of ± 1.98. “According to our study, 78% of Kimball International employees say it is a great workplace,” said Sarah Lewis-Kulin, Great Place to Work’s Senior Editor.

“Our company’s Guiding Principles are the founda-tion of our organization and have stood the test of time, said Bob Schneider, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Kimball International. “As stated in those principles, Our People are the Company. We are proud, once again, to be recognized with this certifica-tion. The employee feedback we receive from this process helps us identify continuous improvement opportunities with our focus on being the employer of choice in each

community in which we have operations.” Read More

>Kimball Office welcomed its newest Select Dealer partner, Office Furniture Warehouse, based in Pitts-burgh, PA. Office Furniture Warehouse started in 1998 as a mid-market used furniture dealer. In 2009 it expanded and started selling Kimball Office to provide quality prod-ucts, world-class service in a timely fashion, and optimal solutions for workspace needs in commercial, higher educa-tion, and healthcare markets. Read More

>Maharam and Rhode Island School of Design celebrated five years of the Maharam STEAM Fellowship in Ap-plied Art and Design with an event at the Maharam De-sign Studio during New York Design Week. This fellowship provides stipends for select internships with a government

agency or nonprofit organiza-tion in the U.S. and abroad. Proposals are designed by students to focus on high-lighting and strengthening the role of visually acute critical thinkers and problem solvers in helping to improve public policy and tackle large social issues. The RISD/Ma-haram partnership supports the college’s broader STEM to STEAM initiative, which emphasizes the importance of bringing together art and design—not only as a form of practice but also as a style of thinking—with the STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math).

At the event, guests had the opportunity to talk with RISD alumni and current students who have completed Maha-ram STEAM Fellowships and to explore their work. Past fellows have contributed to a remarkable array of organi-zations including the Mayo

Clinic, the Collaboratory (part of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs), NPR Sci-ence, GlobeMed, the National Defense University, World Economic Forum, Plan Inter-national, the SaveLIFE Foun-dation, the Marine Biological Laboratory, the U.S. Geologi-cal Survey, Three Mile Island Alert, and the Massachusetts Port Authority, among others. Maharam and RISD also an-nounced the 2016 fellowship recipients, whose areas of focus include robotics, water rights, prisoners’ rights, ge-netics, immigration services, international relations, the military, children’s mental health issues, and housing in impoverished countries. In keeping with the spirit of the program, these fellows will enter arenas rarely seen by art and design students, where they will have the op-portunity to effect real change in policy and practice in local and global organizations and communities. With the addi-tion of this incoming group, 42 RISD students will have participated in the fellowship, working in 15 states and 9 countries. Read More

>NCARB announced planned changes to two programs, streamlining licensure processes and altering fee structures in ways that will benefit architects and licensure candidates. In addition, NCARB released early numbers from its 2015 survey of registered architects, revealing that the number of U.S. architects has grown to over 110,000, and

Maharam and RISD Celebrate the Maharam STEAM Fellowship in Applied Art and Design

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officenewswirethe number of working toward licensure reached an all-time high of 41,500. The results mark the fourth straight year of growth. NCARB made both announcements at the 2016 AIA Convention last week in Philadelphia. Effective next month, NCARB’s Intern Development Program will be significantly updated and renamed the Architectural Ex-perience Program (AXP). The update will align the program with the latest version of the Architect Registration Exam (ARE 5.0), reflecting the new exam’s six practice areas. Ap-plication and annual renewal

fees for AXP participants will be restructured, reflecting a decrease in average cost over the typical five year period. The application fee for an NCARB Certificate will be reduced as well, from $1,500 to $1,100. Plus, NCARB certified architects now have access to free continuing edu-cation opportunities, offered through the NCARB Mono-graph Series. “By streamlining the requirements and fees for our programs, we’re able to provide customers with great-er flexibility and, over time, reduce the cost to licensure,” said NCARB President Dennis

Ward, FAIA, NCARB. “The simplified fee structure is the result of improved processes at NCARB and the Board of Directors’ desire to make the path to licensure more acces-sible.” Read More

>OFM was selected as a fi-nalist for Best Product Video of the Year in this year’s Internet Retailer Excellence Awards. One of five finalists in the category, OFM was nomi-nated for a two-minute video in which CEO Blake Zalcberg shows the Marque Reception Station, including set-up op-tions for disabled workers, dif-ferent colors, and assembly. Finalists in other categories include such well-known re-tailers as Amazon, Nike, and Nordstrom. Winners will be announced next month at the 12th annual Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition in Chicago. Read More

>SURTEX® welcomed more than 200 exhibitors to launch new designs and meet with retailers and manufacturers last week at NYC’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. The three-day event attracted thousands of manufacturers and brands that license or buy art for finished products in in-dustries such as home goods, stationery, furniture, giftware, toys, housewares, home textiles, electronic accessories, and more. Prominent buyers and manufacturers included American Greetings, Anthro-pologie, Apache Mills, Inc., Atlas Wallcoverings, Baum

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officenewswireTextiles, Berwick Offray, Crate and Barrel, Evergreen Enter-prises, Hallmark Cards, Joann Fabric & Craft Stores, Mo-hawk, Pier 1 Imports, Random House Inc., Richloom Fabrics Group, Scholastic, Sur La Table, Tervis, TJX/Homegoods, Walmart, Wincraft, and York Wallcoverings.

The designext Competition celebrated the accomplish-ments of four young artists that were selected as finalists out of the nearly 80 submissions received from schools across the globe. Design students were asked to create six origi-nal surface designs inspired by “Tribal in Art Deco”. Their designs were to be applied to the surface of products and presented as a collection from one of the following four cat-egories: Wear, Work, Live and Play. A panel of distinguished judges selected Kera Allen, a second year design student studying Textile and Surface Pattern design at the Univer-sity of Bolton, in the UK, as the 2016 designext winner.

The show also featured the SURTEX Conference which presented programming in three distinct educational tracks: Essentials, Advanced Strategies, and Business En-hancements. Read More

RE-SITED>Courtney Brooks joined Luna Textiles as New York Sales Rep. Mr. Brooks has more than 20 years of industry-related experience, with extensive background in design and sales. In his new role, his focus will be to act as Luna’s liaison to designers, end users and manufactur-ers. Read More

>Kelly Wood joined Wall-Goldfinger as its Control-ler. A Vermont native and experienced Certified Public Accountant, Ms. Wood initially pursued a career in health care, studying physical thera-py before switching to a radia-tion therapy degree, which she earned from the Univer-sity of Vermont in 1980. She went on to work in the field at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington until her own father became a patient and

passed away from lung can-cer. Looking for a change, she moved west and took a job as a switchboard operator at Snowbird ski resort in Utah. Next door to the switchboard was the central cash office and soon she found herself working in – and liking – ac-counting. She and husband returned to Vermont in 1989 and, after years of doing accounting, Ms. Wood went back to school and earned her bachelor’s degree in accounting from Champlain College in Burlington in 1994. She went on to work in ac-counting positions at a host of Vermont businesses and organizations, most recently as a senior accountant at Washington County Mental Health in Barre. She joined WallGoldfinger in part for her love of the company’s products. “First of all,” she said, “I love wood, and not even just because my last name is Wood.” Her husband was a woodworker by trade and now by hobby, build-ing handcrafted canoes and kayaks. Interesting pieces of wood also decorate the walls of the couple’s home. And she likes manufacturing. “I’ve always been my happiest at places that create a product,” she said. Read More

>Krownlab appointed Xavier Cuadrado as product opera-tions manager and Abigail Morgan as production spe-cialist.

Mr. Cuadrado, an accom-plished engineer, is respon-sible for managing product operations from late develop-ment through supply chain, QA, inventory, and produc-tion. He comes to Krownlab from Everlast Worldwide, where he was director of product development for the sporting goods company. Prior to that he was a lighting designer for West Elm Inc. He holds a Master’s Degree in industrial design from Pratt Institute and a Bach-elor of Science in chemical engineering from Princeton University.

Ms. Morgan works with three existing production team members to support Krown-lab’s production manager and the product operations

SURTEX

Courtney Brooks

Kelly Wood

Abigail Morgan

Xavier Cuadrado

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officenewswiremanager. She is responsible for quality assessment on incoming material, assem-bling hardware products, and bagging component kits. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the University of Oregon.

Using locally sourced steel, Krownlab fabricates its hard-ware in Portland, OR, and sells direct in the commercial architectural interiors market throughout North America. Stefan Andrén, a former product design director for Nike and Motorola, founded Krownlab in 2009. Read More

>Landscape Forms, expand-ing its markets and global presence, announced a new Executive Team with five new Vice Presidents:

-Daniel Waugh, Vice President, Group Operations, joins Land-scape Forms following a 25-year career at Steelcase, most recently as Global Program Manager where he managed product portfolios for two busi-ness categories with combined $190M annual sales.

-Kirt Martin, Vice President of Design and Marketing, formerly directed industrial design activities at Turnstone, a division of Steelcase.

-Jamie May, Vice President, Global Sales, has over 20 years of sales, business devel-opment and sales leadership experience with design driven companies including Gun-locke, Allsteel and Milliken.

-Jodi L. Havera, CPA, Vice President, Finance and CFO, was formerly Chief Financial Officer for Ship-Pac, Inc. and, following sale of the company to HP in 2014, was respon-sible for the profitability of Ship-Pac as a branch of HP.

-Jim Marshall, Vice Presi-dent, Culture has carried out international Leadership, De-velopment and Training pro-grams at MANN+HUMMEL Group.

The new team is work-ing closely with Landscape Forms President Richard E. Heriford, an architect with decades of experience in executive management posi-

tions in the contract furni-ture industry. Mr. Heriford, appointed President in 2011, joined the company as VP of Sales and Marketing in 2000 when sales revenues were $23 million. Today, revenues are $100 million, and the company employs 400 people in three Kalamazoo locations and in sales and service throughout the U.S. and the world. In the past three years the company has made a multi-million dollar investment in world-class manufactur-ing capability. Landscape Forms was founded in 1969 by visionary local landscape architect John Chipman. Read More

ENVIRONMENT>Pallas Textiles received the Association for Contract Textiles (ACT) Facts certifi-cation. Facts certification in-dicates that a textile has met NSF/ANSI 336, a multi-attri-bute sustainability standard that evaluates products for environmental, economic and social attributes. Applicable to a variety of contract fabric

types used in public spaces such as office, healthcare, and institutional interiors, the standard considers criteria from a product’s lifecycle to get a complete picture of the inputs, outputs and envi-ronmental impacts of textile products across a product’s lifespan. Facts certification gives purchasers and speci-fiers confidence that they are selecting a product with sustainable aspects. Certified fabrics must meet prerequi-sites for each parameter, and can achieve optional credits, earning up to a maximum of 100 points. Based on the total number of points achieved within each category, product certification levels include Compliant, Silver, Gold, or Platinum. Pallas Textiles of-fers a number of fabrics that are certified at the Compliant, Silver, and Gold levels. Read More

>Teknion Corp.’s upStage desking system and Sa-brina task chair, and Teknion Textiles’ Textured Edge collection, received 2016 Green Good Design Awards. The annual competition is

Landscape Forms new executive team

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sponsored by The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design.

“Green Good Design identifies and emphasizes the world’s most important examples of sustainable design and develops public awareness about which global com-panies are doing the best job towards ecological and sustainable design for our world environments,” said Ioannis Karalias, Director, The Chicago Athenaeum. “For 2016, we received hundreds of submissions from around the world. Members of The European Centre’s Interna-tional Advisory Committee – worldwide leaders in the de-sign industry – served as the jury and selected over 100 products, programs, people, environmental planning and architecture as outstanding examples of Green Design from 22 nations.”

The upStage desking system

is based on a simple platform or stage that frees users from the constraints of a bench-ing frame or panel, allowing them to build along horizontal or vertical planes to create layered worksurfaces and multi-story volumes. The innovative structural staging unit integrates a full comple-ment of desks, height-adjust-able tables, cabinets, shelves, cubbies and screens.

The Sabrina task chair was inspired by Giugiaro Design’s philosophy based on the structure of the human body, and symbolizes the infinite interconnection of comfort and design. It features an in-novative inner ring structure, organic frame design and mesh backrest. The iconic in-ner ring provides support and backwards bending while the outer frame allows torsional flexing.

Textured Edge is a collec-tion of upholstery, panel and wall fabrics designed by Suzanne Tick, Creative Director, Teknion Textiles. The

collection highlights elements of artistic production in two larger-scale graphic upholster-ies, and five wall and panel fabrics that explore texture in all its forms. Read More

EVENTS>Allsteel Inc. and its Ca-nadian partner Nua Office Inc., a dealership network, are sponsors of C2 Montréal. Happening this week (May 24-26) at the Arsenal art gallery, C2 is an annual busi-ness conference that explores the latest ideas and prac-tices through an innovative program of talks, workshops and brainstorming sessions. As part of the sponsorship, A.J. Paron-Wildes, National Architectural and Design

Manager at Allsteel, will be a keynote presenter and will lead workshops on the relationship between design and knowledge-worker pro-ductivity. The conference also coincides with the opening of a Nua showroom in Montréal. Read More

>IFMA will once again host its Virtual Career Fair on Thursday, Jun. 9, Noon-3:00 p.m. Central Time. This powerful online event connects job seekers directly with employers that have open facility management career opportunities. Atten-dance is free for job seekers and is open to IFMA mem-bers and anyone seeking a career in FM. Interested parties can register to attend and companies can learn how to post job opportunities by

Teknion up Stage desking system, Sabrina task chair, and Textured Edge collection from Teknion Textiles

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officenewswirevisiting www.ifma.org/vcf. Job seekers who attend IFMA’s Virtual Career Fair will be able to easily identify employers looking to hire FM talent. In addition to specific employ-ment opportunities, there will also be relevant information about each hiring organiza-tion. Job seekers will be able to choose which employers to interact with and engage in one-on-one chats directly with recruiters at those organiza-tions. Read More

>Registration for IIDA’s 2nd annual Advocacy Sympo-sium, Sep. 23-25 in Denver, CO, is now open. The event will feature a variety of key-note speakers, educational sessions, and panel discus-sions that will provide attend-ees with the information they need to be effective interior design advocates. Attendees will develop a more definitive understanding of what advo-cacy means, how to articulate the value and mission of inte-rior design, and how to ener-gize and encourage advocates for our profession. Sample session topics include: deter-mining an optimal advocacy strategy; increasing the public understanding of interior design; mobilizing colleagues and constituents; the role of communications in advocacy; and working with lobbyists and other stakeholder groups. Read More

>IIDA New York Chapter will present a Sustainable Design Forum about beekeeping on Thursday, Jun. 2 at Brook-lyn Grange Rooftop Farms, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Local masters at the Brooklyn Grange will show how apiaries are setup, how the bees are bred, and what goes into keeping them alive and happy. Attendees will also enjoy a private tour of the rooftop farms and learn how this urban farm practices organic farming, growing nutritious and tasty food, and dreams boldly of a sustain-able New York. Read More

>Launch by Editor at Large will host Headshot Day on Wednesday, Jun. 8 during DDB Spring Market in NYC. Available from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Benjamin Moore, 979 Third Avenue, Suite 1803, the $125 package includes a 15-minute session with professional portrait photographer Tory Williams, a selection of proofs, and one retouched image, delivered as both a high-resolution image file and web-ready version. Space is limited and registra-

tion is required for securing a specific time slot. Read More

>Museum of Design Atlanta announced its exhibition schedule for the remainder of 2016. Considering the field of design in its many iterations, the exhibitions cover every-thing from cutting edge wear-able technology and human-centered design to the future of food production. MODA also casts a look at the past with its current exhibition, Make-Believe America, which runs through Jun. 12 and shines a

spotlight on 20th-century U.S. cultural exhibitions.

-Beautiful Users, Jun. 26-Oct. 2. Organized by the Coo-per Hewitt National Design Museum, Beautiful Users features nearly 100 objects that illustrate the evolution of “user-centered design”—from the mid–20th-century work of Henry Dreyfuss (who coined the phrase “designing for people”) to the complex systems and services that to-day’s designers are develop-ing. Objects in the exhibition will include examples of the human-scale measurement system, which aids in design for children, the elderly, the differently-abled and people of diverse height.

-On You: Wearing Technol-ogy, Jun. 26-Oct. 2. Using consumer, professional and “maker” creations, On You: Wearing Technology dem-onstrates four challenges along the road to making a consumer wearable computer: power and heat, networking, mobile input, and displays. This exhibition was developed in collaboration with various Georgia Institute of Technology entities, including the School of Industrial Design, the Insti-tute for People and Technol-ogy, the Wearable Computing Center and GVU Center.

-The Future of Food from Farms to Forks, Oct. 23-January 2017. Curated by MODA, The Future of Food from Farms to Forks looks at cutting-edge developments in food production, asking how the farm of the future operates, how worldwide

Launch, by Editor at Large: Headshot Day

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officenewswirefood distribution can be made more equitable, how we might design systems that induce consumers to privilege healthy food choices and other vital questions ably served by Design Thinking processes. The exhibition highlights work being done in Atlanta and beyond and engages with Atlanta’s rich foodie culture. Read More

>NeoCon® launched new social media activities, TweetChat and Instagram Takeover. Designed to enhance the pre-show buzz and engage the NeoCon audience, the program is anchored by three sponsored TweetChats, during which participating exhibitors lead a one-hour chat from NeoCon’s Twitter account (@NeoCon) on a topic of their choice. These are complemented by a two-day Takeover of Neo-Con’s Instagram account (@NeoCon_Shows). This year’s hosts are: PPG Industries Ar-chitectural Coatings, Tarkett, and Mohawk Group.

The first TweetChat, hosted by PPG, already took place last

week, but the second one, hosted by Tarkett, is sched-uled for this Thursday, May 26, with the theme “Collec-tions Infinies,” 12:00-1:00 Eastern Time.

The third TweetChat, hosted by Mohawk, will take place on Friday, Jun. 3, 3:00-4:00 p.m. Eastern Time, with the theme “Prepping for the Show: Tips & Tricks.” Read More

>A team from Rice Univer-sity, at the 15th Interna-tional Architecture Exhibition during the Venice Biennale May 28-Nov. 27, will display a vision of timber construc-tion for the renovation of a run-down neighborhood in Detroit. Albert Pope, Rice’s Gus Sessions Wortham Professor of Architecture, and Jesús Vassallo, an assistant professor of architecture, were among more than 250 U.S. architects or teams who competed for 12 spots in the American pavilion at the prestigious exhibition. With the help of students during a fall seminar, they designed and built an impressive 4x5x8’ wooden model of a towering

mixed-use structure designed to transform two blocks in Detroit’s Corktown. Timber construction addresses what they see as the oncoming necessity of providing a more carbon-friendly built environ-ment. The Rice team also went above and beyond their assignment by considering the long-term implications of redevelopment for the entire 250-block Corktown neighbor-hood. Envisioning the transi-tion from Corktown to what they are calling New Cork-town over the next 50 years, they see the neighborhood’s landlocked nature as an op-portunity to grow up, not out. Their master plan, presented in 10-year increments, would have the neighborhood’s density increase tenfold and also incorporate forested carbon sinks – five-block-wide “plantations” set at regular intervals to keep residents close to nature no matter where they live. The archi-tects received guidance from foresters at the Rice Land Lumber Co., an extensive Louisiana tree farm owned by Rice for more than 100 years. The professors see their proposed waterfront structure

as a gateway destination for the neighborhood. It features a 40-story residential tower, a hotel, a conference center and an outdoor performance space facing a river walk that is already under development. The design is made primarily of renewable wood. “We are anticipating the development of carbon pricing, which will change the economics of development,” said Mr. Pope. “It’s not obvious to many people that a carbon market is coming. To us, it’s very obvious, and there’s no way around it. One of the things it means is that wood is going to be the cheapest material you can use. There are fewer carbon emissions, and it’s the most efficient material you can build with. We’re trying to see the potential in building efficient environments based on density.”

After Venice, the Rice exhibi-tion, which received support from Rice alumnus and former trustee Raymond and Susan Brochstein, will travel to the Museum of Contem-porary Art Detroit, along with others in the American pavilion. Read More

Model by Rice University architecture professors Jesús Vassallo and Albert Pope to be on display at the Venice Biennale

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businessBUSINESS AFFAIRS>HNI Corp. posted its second-quarter investor presentation. The PDF is available in the “News Releases & Events” section of its Investors page. http://investors.hnicorp.com/

>Interface, Inc. shareholders, at the company’s annual meeting of shareholders on May 17, elected nine direc-tors: John P. Burke, Andrew B. Cogan, Carl I. Gable, Jay D. Gould, Daniel T. Hendrix, Christopher G. Kennedy, K. David Kohler, James B. Miller, Jr., and Sheryl D. Palmer. They also approved the company’s executive compensation and ratified the appointment of BDO USA, LLP to serve as independent auditors for 2016. http://interfaceglobal.com/Investor-Relations/SEC-Filings.aspx

>Mohawk Industries, Inc. stockholders, at the company’s annual meeting of stockholders on May 19, elected three directors: Joseph A. Onorato, and William H. Runge III, W. Christopher Wellborn. They also ratified the selection of KPMG LLP as the company’s independent registered public account-ing firm for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 2016; and approved via a non-binding, advisory vote the company’s executive compensation plan. http://www.mohawkind.com/CorporateIR-SECFilings.aspx

TECHNOLOGY>Configura released CET Designer 7.0. The new version includes major additions and new features that will benefit the contract furniture designer, including the ability for users to reduce rendering times, choose among more generic products to enhance drawings, and take the designed experience to the next level with stairs, multiple floors and 3D text.

“Renderings are a central part of the sales process in the con-tract furniture industry – they help customers to visualize their space before making a big investment. Time is money, so in the new release, CET Designer users can take advantage of their local network to create renderings even faster than before,” Configura Vice President of Global Customer Experience Tracy Lanning said.

CET Designer 7.0 offers a Generic Kitchen Extension to depict break-room areas. CET Designer 7.0 also adds more symbols depicting plants and other objects, bringing enhanced realism to the envisioned space.

CET Designer 7.0 offers a new Extension that lets users place stairs in the drawing. Meanwhile, new multiple-floors function-ality enables users to easily create lofts and mezzanine spaces in 3D.

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businessConfigura regularly surveys CET Designer users about which new features they would like to see incorporated into CET Designer. This time, the top user-requested feature was the ability to place 3D text on walls, a function that’s now a part of CET Designer.

Configura’s CET Designer Virtual Viewer Extension, launching this June at NeoCon, lets users “walk around” in a drawing in full-screen mode using gaming controls. Wearing Oculus Rift goggles, an individual can have an immersive virtual reality experience of a designed space. Meanwhile, an entire audi-ence can take part in the “walk around,” no goggles needed, by viewing on a screen as a user guides them with the gaming controls. The designer can make changes that can be applied instantly, and immediately viewed and experienced by the individual or the audience. The technology helps designers to help their customers visualize their space like never before. Read More

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Territory Manager - Portland OR area

Global Furniture Group

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

> Increase awareness and interest among dealers, designers and end-users of our product

> Identify/involve our com-pany in projects that best suit our products, services and capabilities

> Must meet and exceed sales projections as out-lined

Skills & Experience:

> 3+ years of outside sales experience in the office furniture industry or related field

> Bachelor’s degree in rel-evant field of study from an accredited institution

> Global offers a full benefits package including sal-ary + commission, profit sharing/401K which may include company match, healthcare, dental, life, vision, STD/LTD and auto allowance.

For consideration, please e-mail your resume and salary history to jheinrich@globalfurnituregroup.com

Market Manager - Chelsea, NYC

Dauphin, the German office furniture maker with manufacturing in Boonton NJ, seeks a Market Manager to work from our Chelsea, NYC showroom.

Primary responsibilities include developing relationships with endusers, the design community and dealers; assessing opportunities and presenting appropriate Dauphin collaborative furniture solutions; assisting in the specification of our products; providing samples, pricing and /or demonstrations

as requested. You are expected to engage with the design community through involvement with industry organizations and attendance at industry events.

Desired Skills and Experience The ideal candidate should be a self-starter who is experienced in selling consultative furniture solutions, is able to multi-task, has good written and verbal communication skills and is adept at using PDA tablets to present branded PowerPoint presentations.

Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite expected. You should have a 4-year college degree and minimum 5 years’ experience selling into the NYC commercial interiors market.

This position reports directly to the Regional Business Manager. Dauphin offers a competitive salary, incentive plan and attractive benefits. For consideration, please email a cover letter and resume to susan.weinberg@dauphin.com