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Fast Company
Regardless of your stance on unpaid pitching, the bottom line remains the same: Many potential clients, especially here in the U.S., will request unpaid "trial" creative work from advertising or design agencies when deciding with whom to work on a project or an account. A "no-pitch" policy might be an agency's preference, but it's tough to actually execute. So how can you implement a no-pitch policy and stay competitive?
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Human Spaces
Long gone are stale cubicle rows, dull carpets, and strip lighting. In their place? Bright colors and artwork to inspire creativity. Break-out areas and the tools in which to “play,” interact, and exchange ideas with colleagues. Quiet spaces with carefully refined acoustics in which to concentrate, escape, and reflect for clarity of thought. These workplaces attract and retain the most talented of employees – and smart companies know that this is key in creating and maintaining a strong workforce in a competitive market. TransferWise harnessed this thinking for their recent renovation in Estonia.
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Kontor
With its straightforward shape and no-nonsense finish, Emeco's Navy Chair represents a tough but elegant moment in America’s industrial design history. As an icon, as well as an enduringly functional furnishing, it makes appearances in offices all over the world. In honor of its move from warship to workplace, Kontor takes a moment to salute the past and present of the Navy Chair.
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Dezeen
Lack of private space in office interiors is constraining the creativity and productivity of workers, according to data from two new U.K. workplace surveys. Gensler's 2016 U.K. Workplace Survey found that workers were more likely to be innovative if they had access to a range of spaces supporting different working styles, including private, semi-private, and open-plan environments.
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Healthcare Design
Before designing a new pediatric waiting room for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (London), designers at Boex, an interior and product design firm based in Cornwall, England, asked to shadow the hospital staff for 24 hours to better understand the workings of the 1,033-square-foot space. What they found were metal chairs in long rows that didn’t accommodate parents holding or soothing young children; aisles cluttered with strollers and other gear parents typically bring with them; no clear separation of sick and well children; and few positive distraction features to entertain waiting patients.
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The Acrovyn Wall Panel line provides designers the opportunity to reset their standards with extensive new design selections that install in half the time previously required. New trim and edge options, panel depths and endless finishes create a unique space that is both protected and easily cleaned.
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USA Today
Moxy New Orleans has officially debuted near the French Quarter, targeting millennials who are increasingly spending more money on trips. The New Orleans hotel has an industrial look with polished concrete floors, exposed concrete columns, and open ceilings. Millennials tend to like public spaces where they can work and play. As such, Moxy New Orleans' "Now" public space has game tables and communal areas have plug-ins for personal devices.
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Post Magazine
The man who built the world’s largest fast-food chain, Ray Kroc, insists he’s in the business of real estate, not hamburgers, so when sales started to flag a few years ago, it was real estate, not recipes, that McDonald’s took back to the drawing board. The outlet in Hong Kong’s Admiralty Center, opened in December 2015, was the pilot project of that exercise worldwide. For the pilot project, the outlet has an urban vibe in a “palette of materials you wouldn’t normally associate with fast food,” like concrete, steel, glass, and oak. The lighting, which dims at night to induce relaxation, was integral to the push back against the trend among chains to be ever garish, louder, brighter.
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SF Gate
Developers and designers creating the latest generation of workspace environments are scrambling to keep up with a changing market. The influx of millennial workers has caused them to toss out familiar floor plans in favor of new offices that will appeal to younger workers. There are more open work areas and office cubes are getting tossed in the Dumpster. "It's all about the anticorporate experience," said Manuel Navarro of Ziegler Cooper Architects in Texas. "We are deconstructing the office and making it look like the loft experience and industrial."
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Star Tribune
Hy-Vee’s top executive, Randy Edeker, walked into a Miami hotel five years ago and saw an innovation that he thought would work in the grocery chain – public restrooms for one. With every large format store it has opened since 2012, including three in the Twin Cities in the past year, Hy-Vee built at least nine individual restrooms, joining the vanguard of a design movement that had momentum even before transgender bathrooms became a political controversy this year. Big, multi-stall bathrooms as we know them – often dirty and uncomfortable for many people – are on borrowed time.
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Any environment you design that integrates a Corian® solid surface can get a boost from Corian® Charging Surface. In an airport, a high-rise, office spaces, hospitals, hotels or more, you can now offer customers a solid surface that charges smart devices wirelessly. Learn more about specifying Corian® Charging Surface.
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PSFK
The concept of "curb appeal" has always worked differently for commercial office buildings than for retail stores. With office workers increasingly looking at their spaces as potential sites for chance encounters and creativity, building managers are thus trying to convey this image to potential tenants. With 1,700 square feet of extravagant imagery, ESI Design's work with the lobby of Terrell Place in Washington D.C. creates a dazzling display for visitors and daily employees alike.
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Dezeen
Musling restaurant’s interior design was based on its surroundings, showcasing simple materials and colors. Soft brown leather seats and a gray-toned iron bar feature inside this seafood restaurant overlooking Copenhagen's Torvehallerne food market.
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IIDA
IIDA and co-presenting sponsor Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong proudly announce the opening of the 4th annual IIDA Best of Asia Pacific Design Awards competition. This international competition honors innovation and design excellence in interior design/architecture throughout the Asia Pacific region in 14 categories. Projects must be located in the Asia Pacific region; however, the design firm may be based outside of the region. Submitted project(s) must have been completed after July 1, 2014. The deadline to submit is Thursday, Sept. 8.
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IIDA
Join IIDA at the second annual IIDA Advocacy Symposium for three days 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, and connect with passionate, dedicated, and persistent commercial interior design advocates from across the country. IIDA members must login prior to registering to receive the IIDA discount. Register today.
Trendir
Terry.Terry Architecture‘s creative office design in San Francisco came to be through a serious architectural upgrade. Besides creating its colorful façade, the architects have seismically retrofitted the historic 1906 building in the Jackson Square of San Francisco and added a second floor with a roof terrace for the growing graphic/product design firm. With some careful planning, the office was divided into the main hall with clean shared desks, a few glazed offices, and a glass-encased conference room. There, a colorfully decorated bay window allows some natural light to seep into the room but provides a visual barrier between the office and the street.
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Design: retail
When you think convenience store, do you think LEED-certified building, fresh food, warm and inviting interior, and growler bars? Nope. Well Kum & Go is trying to change that mindset with a new store concept – a market prototype dubbed Kum & Go Marketplace – that is setting a new standard for the c-store sector.
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BBC
New designs for Heathrow Airport, which include open green spaces and large expanses of glass, have been released as part of its continuing bid for expansion. It is described by architects Grimshaw "as setting a new standard for the future of aviation." Plans include the third runway and easy access to the new Crossrail link.
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freshome
Nice Way Hostel Porto in northern Portugal is located in a beautiful old building on Avenida dos Aliados. The social core of the hostel is a generously-sized living room, designed in an eclectic style. The influence of three important aspects create the foundation of the design: Comfort, multi-functionality, and cosmopolitanism. Thanks to an open floor plan, the living space has a united reception, bar, kitchen, and dining room.
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Harvard Business Review
Unless we can align ourselves in myriad ways with the many "newnesses" that change requires, we will be the grit in our gears, grinding against change instead of smoothly shifting forward into the spaces we all currently agree we need to inhabit – but only in theory. Why? Because our old approaches by definition cannot not create the new actions needed to move forward in different and more effective ways. And the individual level, this can hurt our career prospects, relationships, even our health. At the senior leadership level, it can influence other people’s careers and prospects as well.
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Inc.
While there are countless ways to provide exceptional leadership in whatever role you're in, the best leaders cannot do it without consistently acting on these four things.
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