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Metropolis Magazine
"I think of it as wizardry," Kugler Ning Lighting Design's senior associate Burr Rutledge jokes of the firm's approach. "We design to make spaces look natural, but then you turn off the switch, and all of a sudden everything is completely different." The firm's work, especially on architectural icons such as New York's Carnegie Hall or Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library, creates entirely new perspectives on architecture while playing upon people's memories — viewers often feel as if the spaces have always been lit that way. This unique approach in a string of high-profile projects across public, hospitality, workplace, and commercial sectors has resulted in dozens of honors for the New York-based firm.
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Fast Company
Picture a hospital: Bright lights, buzzing machines, crowded waiting rooms, and frazzled nurses. Anxiety runs high. Customer service is not high on people's minds. They're busy making patients healthy and filling out required paperwork.
If all goes well, none of that will be true at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's new $300 million surgery building, slated to open in Manhattan in January.
Inside the nearly finished Josie Robertson Surgery Center, the waiting room feels more like a fancy co-working space for families to camp out, play games, get work done, and grab a bite to eat. The patient rooms — all private, with private bathrooms — have floor-to-ceiling windows; the floors have unique art and poetry, and central gathering places for a buffet breakfast and socializing; and the figure-eight hallways double as walking paths for post-surgery exercise.
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Interior Design
Bringing the 21st century into a storied space, BHDM Design went for a "modern nautical" look when designing American Beech Restaurant, Bar & Suites, which opened earlier this year in Greenport, a town on Long Island's North Fork. The structure's own history and the town’s past as a ship port served as inspiration for the design.
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Lodging Magazine
Nowhere in the world are you able to find the density of hotel rooms or the variety of hotel offerings than you can in Las Vegas. In terms of design, trends that are currently being explored could be considered a reaction to the established typology: "Services versus opulence" and "wellness versus indulgence." This trend continues into rooms filled with more opulent materials, surfaces, and décor, which are trending towards being cleaner and "smarter." Wellness concepts are continually being integrated into the guest experience as well, ranging from therapeutic lighting systems to aid in relaxation and stress reduction to water and air purification systems.
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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 IIDA Student Mentoring Program places student members with local design professionals for a day of job shadowing in March 2016. Don't miss your opportunity to be part of this dynamic event. Registration for students and mentors is now open.
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IIDA
The end of the current compliance period is Dec. 31, 2015. IIDA Professional and Associate members who joined before Jan. 1, 2014, must complete and report 10 continuing education hours (1.0 CEU) onto their IDCEC Registry. You can earn CEUs online or contact ceu@iida.org with questions.
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Brand Channel
Only 532 Frank Lloyd Wright-designed buildings have been constructed, but his vision and impact loom large in the world of architecture. Apple will pay its respects to Wright, who headed to the Great Drafting Table in the Sky in 1959, with the design for a new flagship store in Chicago, where Wright made his home.
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The New York Times
On an overcast afternoon at the new Karuna East office building, the digital creative agency Instrument was finishing unpacking.
Balloons spelling "fun” floated above one desk, and a giant caribou head (the company's unofficial mascot, Russell) was hung near the entrance.
As a service bell clanged, a company tradition signaling the start of a new campaign, employees paused at various stand-up desks, videoconferencing consoles, and a Ping-Pong table to applaud.
Instrument occupies three floors in this 116,000-square-foot project, with a glass-ensconced atrium and auditorium in the middle of the space allowing employees to see one another and interact.
J.D. Hooge, a founder of Instrument, recalled telling the project's designers, from Holst Architecture and the interior design firm Osmose, that the company headquarters should feel casual yet refined, "like a coffee shop meets a design school," and that it should feel like Portland.
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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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Sourceable
Due to the proliferation of the Internet-related technologies such as portable smart devices, as well as increasingly flexible attitudes toward the nature of remunerated employment when it comes to hours, physical location, and trends such as activity-based working, demand for agile workspaces is on the increase. The agile workspace could soon emerge as the defining office environment for advanced economies in the wake of breakneck technological advances, ensuing changes in the way that companies conduct business as well as activity-based work trends.
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Healthcare Design
As the healthcare industry shifts toward outpatient care, healthcare organizations are re-evaluating clinic planning to meet evolving patient needs. Once-standard waiting rooms, workstations, and exam rooms are evolving to accommodate new delivery models for a diverse patient base.
The goal for healthcare organizations is to meet changing programming needs — and that starts with sound planning. Here are four industry factors affecting clinic planning.
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This uniform collection of conference furniture addresses a multitude of needs ranging from casual to formal settings, small to large groups and personal to technology-assisted interactions. Rapport’s harmonious forms, balanced proportions and layers of contrasting finishes create a unique, but familiar aesthetic that is complimentary to a broad range of environments.
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By Fred Berns
 If you're planning a career in interior design, you should promote yourself as if your career and your future depend on it. Because they do. Self-promotion skills are every bit as important as space planning know-how, remodeling acumen or color expertise. Interior design schools do a commendable job of providing students with insights about topics like project management, lighting trends, and universal design. But many do an inadequate job of teaching personal marketing skills.
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Entrepreneur
Motivating employees and helping them do the best job possible takes time and experience. As a leader, there is nothing more rewarding than helping other people — as well as yourself — work to their fullest potential. The keys to being a good motivator are: clear communication, training, and appreciation. If you use the following tactics, you will become a better leader.
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