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Furniture World
"Three-dimensional printing is changing the way a number of industries are producing products," says Leslie Carothers, a volunteer member of The Bienenstock Furniture Library Board. "The benefits are highly relevant to our industry — especially the ability to create inexpensive prototypes quickly. It also allows designers to experiment with new combinations of materials, new shapes, and structures that don't lend themselves to molds. Finally, it is ideal for making one-of-a-kind highly personalized items, and even miniatures to perfect scale."
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Buildings
The green building industry continues to grow in the U.S. and its value is now outpacing overall construction growth, according to a new study commissioned by the USGBC and prepared by Booz Allen Hamilton. The 2015 Green Building Economic Impact Study also finds that the green building sector will support more than 2.3 million American jobs and contribute more than $134.3 billion in labor income to working Americans this year.
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Design Boom
Facebook Tel-Aviv is spread over four floors in a high rise building on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel-Aviv, Israel. The building was completed by firm Setter Architects, who created a program that syncs the company's values with a space that serves its inhabitants. It is functional with organic and natural features that form an optimum setting within the urban environment.
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GreenBiz
Designers in the building industry are continually looking for new and innovative ways to create beautiful, livable spaces that are environmentally responsible and resilient.
Increasingly, those on the leading edge are looking to nature as a source of inspiration — a design discipline known as biomimicry.
Here are nine examples of how applying biomimicry in the context of the built environment can help designers, projects developers and communities as they work to create naturally sustainable, inherently resilient spaces.
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IIDA
The deadline to enter the EDspaces Innovation Awards is Friday, Oct. 9. The awards recognize manufacturers and designers for excellence in product design for the learning environment. Winning entries will be published in the October issue of Learning By Design magazine and on the IIDA website.
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Acrovyn by Design® provides unlimited visual freedom to incorporate digitally printed photography, branding and more behind legendary, PVC-free Acrovyn. The 4’x8’ or 4’x10’ .040” thick rigid sheet is perfect for protecting imagery and walls in high traffic areas. Let your imagination run wild!
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IIDA
The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts will be honored at Leaders Breakfast in Chicago on Oct. 2. Join IIDA in this celebration of design innovation and leadership. Kent Larson, director of the Changing Places research group at the MIT Media Lab, will serve as keynote speaker.
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IIDA
You know the value of an IIDA membership. Now you can share those benefits by inviting your
friends and colleagues to join IIDA. For every new member you refer who joins IIDA, you will be
entered in a drawing to win one of two $250 American Express gift cards!
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Modern color match: NODE+chroma Inspire
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Healthcare Design
When Grinnel Regional Medical Center (Grinnell, Iowa) had the opportunity to build out vacant shell space to enlarge its chemotherapy infusion treatment services, it was presented with a large open area with lots of windows that brought in n abundance of natural light. On the down side, however, was the view since the 30 windows overlooked a parking lot.
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Fast Company
It's not just about the Pantone Matching System (PMS for short); it's the Color of The Year, the Pantone Color Institute, Pantone hotels, Pantone cafes, Pantone mugs, Pantone iPhone keyboards, Pantone lipstick, and tie-ins to the movie industry.
The elaborate web of products represents the company's strategic and unwavering quest to become the universal language of color — and a brand synonymous with good design.
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Make a dramatic statement with the LumiSource Hover Collection. This original LumiSource design gives the impression of suspension, highlighting the elegant blend of fabulous materials. Tempered glass, brushed stainless steel, and wood blend seamlessly together adding intrigue and sophistication to any contemporary room.
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Dezeen
British architect David Adjaye has revealed plans for a museum in San Antonio, Texas, with a red concrete skin based on a dream of its patron, philanthropist Linda Pace.
The distinctive facades of the two-story, 14,000-square-foot contemporary art museum for the Linda Pace Foundation will be made of crimson precast panels flecked with glass aggregate. The panels will vary in shades of red, and are intended to make the largely opaque structure less monolithic.
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Inc.
Now that every big start-up has an open seating plan and giant amphitheater, what's next in office design? Inc. talked with top designers and architects to get their impressions of the present and visions for the future.
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Enhance any environment with flexible and contemporary modular Doozie lounge pieces. Configure Doozie pieces to be used in an individual or group setting whether it be for universities, corporate environments, hospitality, children centers or informal collaborative spaces. The Doozie lounge collection includes nine unique shapes and sizes.
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LinkedIn
If you are like most designers, you have a passion for your work, and yet you don’t see your business or yourself as a "brand." It is actually a good idea to think of your design work and your business as a "brand." Why? Because a brand needs to evoke emotions and ultimately, emotions trigger buying decisions.
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Work Design
Congratulations! You've just been offered a position at the design firm of your dreams (perhaps our new job board helped get you there!). But now what? Julianne Kim, the talent acquisition manager at FOX Architects, shares what you should keep in mind as you start this new gig.
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Design Biz Blueprint
Lacking a commitment to your business and overall success often creates internal discontent and unhappiness, because you're not going after what truly makes you happy. It's the reason you end up attracting the wrong kinds of client and design jobs you don't really want.
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