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BBC
Well-designed workplaces often create environments that make their employees better thinkers, often without even realizing they have done it. But some are now actively turning to the science to help free their workers' minds.
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Design Milk
It's official: Every hotel Grzywinski+Pons designs makes you want to instantly transport yourself there, whether it's in London, or New York, and now, Edinburgh with the Eden Locke hotel. The design studio recently stripped down an old 18th-century Georgian mansion with a 20th-century extension to create this new, modern 72-room hotel with a delightfully pastel color palette.
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Curbed
Office chairs are rarely as elegant as they are ergonomic and comfortable, so Royal College of Arts graduate and designer Andrea Mestre set out to address that issue — along with the question of sustainability. Her solution is the Gandia, a "dynamic" chair made from rattan cane that allows the user to move and stretch within it.
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Builder
Providing the feeling of being outdoors, a new line of lighting products mimics the color temperature and intensity of natural light. Ketra LEDs shift throughout the day, providing the look of a full range of sunlight — crisp and bright during the day, soft and warm at night. The lights provide wellness benefits to indoor occupants, synchronizing their circadian rhythms to support better health and rest, the company says.
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Interior Design
For all the theatrical verve of Gensler, New York, it's not the firm's own name that's lit up like Times Square. Creative director and principal John Bricker is more subtle than that. He spends his days persuading clients that they needn't use "explicit design elements," he says, to express the spirit of their brands, and he certainly embraced that approach for his own office's branding and digital design. He calls it "a lava-lamp experience, ambient rather than overt."
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If you could design a wall pattern, what would it look like? Enter your pattern into the Acrovyn by Design® Patterns Contest for a chance to win $5,000 and be added to the Acrovyn by Design Pattern Collection. For contest rules and information, click here.
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KCET
The role of designers in society is changing. More and more, designers are being tasked to make an impact on the world around them by applying their skills to better society. "LEAP Dialogues: Career Pathways in Design for Social Innovation" published by Designmatters at ArtCenter College of Design explores this emergent field of design for social innovation, its key issues and the future of the field.
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Metropolis
If you take the door off the conference room, will the meeting be just as productive? That's a question Microsoft, in collaboration with San Francisco–based Studio O+A, is hoping to answer. The two have partnered for the design of Microsoft's Envisioning Center, an evolving space for testing prototypes at the tech company's Redmond, Washington, headquarters. Unlike most testing facilities, however, the Envisioning Center isn't a lab, but rather a fully designed environment where both in an active setting. In this case, that setting is the office of the very near future.
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IIDA
IIDA proudly announces the opening of its 6th annual Healthcare Interior Design Competition. This competition honors and celebrates outstanding originality and excellence in the design and furnishings of healthcare interior spaces. The Healthcare Interior Design Competition is open to participants worldwide. Any design professional practicing legally within his or her jurisdiction may submit project(s) for consideration via the competition website. Projects submitted must have been completed in or after June 2015. The deadline for entries is Monday, August 14, 2017. Enter the competition.
IIDA
Join IIDA in Chicago for the IIDA Advocacy Symposium beginning September 22, 2017, for a three-day weekend of sessions, speakers and panels focused on the advocacy topics that matter most to commercial interior designers. Learn critical skills, including how to build relationships with decision-makers, work with other stakeholder groups and promote grassroots involvement. Connect with passionate, dedicated and persistent commercial interior design advocates from across the country. Space is limited. Register now.
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Our dedicated Architectural Reps provide Designers with professional-grade color visualization and presentation tools to help your design come to life. And via our website, access Behr Color Trends, downloadable color palettes, and the Autodesk® Revit® design tool. To receive your comprehensive Behr Architectural Color Box, CLICK HERE.
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Metropolis
The role of the office is shifting dramatically. As the lines between work life and home life blur and employers face steep competition for top talent, management teams are taking a new look at their offices. Forward-thinking management teams are engaging designers, architects, and data scientists to build workspaces that support today's workers without driving them to distraction.
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Building Design + Construction
Whether for a team of 20 or 200, if today’s professionals are not currently working in an open office environment, a change is likely on the horizon. Far from a fleeting fad, the open office layout is increasingly being adopted in the workplace and isn't going away anytime soon. While there are immense benefits to this transparent, collaborative layout, executives and designers are fielding no shortage of concerns from staff. With Corporate America on fire about this issue, it begs the question — Do open offices work?
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This unique and diverse line of extruded aluminum trims was designed to enhance all practical aspects of drywall construction and transform it into a design medium that can make it the feature, the focus and the most impactful element of a well-designed space.
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Design Milk
This year at Salone del Mobile 2017, the University School of Design and Art of Barcelona, put their students front and center with Way On. Showcasing six projects developed by third and fourth year students in the Design program, each project explored the idea of user experience and provided solutions to an ever changing world.
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Health Facilities Management
In a nationwide effort to reduce health care-associated infections, the way a building is designed and the materials and furniture placed inside can have great impact, which is why environmental services and infection prevention leaders should be included early in the design process.
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Caesarstone
Caesarstone has launched four new colors that are sophisticated, expressive and defy the norm. Montblanc, Moorland Fog and Turbine Grey feature intricate veining with a refined surface. Rugged Concrete brings texture to the forefront as its grey base is camouflaged by billows of white. Caesarstone quartz has a timeless quality that blends function and beauty while delivering superior durability.
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City A.M.
Few things in the restaurant design world have been so hotly debated as the humble tablecloth. Since Noma stormed onto the international food scene in 2003, the rulebook for what a high-end restaurant should look like went out the window; gone were the plush carpets, extravagant chandeliers and, most importantly of all, the table cloths.
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Forbes
For the last few years, mindfulness has been getting a lot of attention and press. According to Jon Kabat-Zinn, a leading thinker in the field, mindfulness is about "Paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally." It is about being more in the present and thereby being able to do everything with more discipline and focus.
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Upgrade your site and email address or start fresh with a new .design domain name. IIDA members get their first year free at www.IIDA.design - join the likes of kohler.design and airbnb.design with this hot, new development. MORE
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C-Suite Network
With culture at the top of the agenda for many organisations, it's important to understand what culture is, the role top leaders play and the best way to activate change. A leader's beliefs and attitudes certainly influence behaviors. But are they causing systemic change or using power to temporarily modify behavior?
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