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As 2015 comes to a close, IIDA wishes its members a safe and happy holiday season. To help you reflect on the past year, we're providing the readers of Spectrum a look at the 20 most-accessed articles from the year. This week we're sharing numbers 20 through 11. Our regular publication will resume on Thursday, Jan. 7.
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Furniture World
From Sept. 24: "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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Silicon Valley Business Journal
From March 5: Google's vision for its new buildings in Mountain View, California, is unlike anything built before it. Google describes the enclosures as "canopies," but from the air they also look a little like greenhouses (a high-tech shading system will block the sun). Architect Bjarke Ingels says the idea is to "dissolve the building into a simple, super-transparent, ultra-light membrane."
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Design Curial
From June 26: A panel of interiors experts from all corners of the industry came together for the recent FX Design Seminar on Color to talk color, styles, and trends. The issue of winning the client's confidence was agreed by most as a key challenge. There are nevertheless plenty of reasons to be cheerful for designers working in interiors now, as the scope for being creative is broadening in both commercial and residential schemes, with clients and consumers increasingly prepared to go bold with color.
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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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Dezeen
From June 4: What's the difference between design in America and Europe? Is it harder for designers to make a living in the United States? Is there any such thing as American design today? New York practitioners, curators and observers in the city were asked to give their views.
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WorkDesign Magazine
From Feb. 26: Happily, the pendulum has swung away from the "cube farms" of decades past to an embrace of the open office layout. But, has it swung a bit too far? Are office layouts nailing the "open" part of the concept, but sabotaging employees' ability to focus? Bernice Boucher shares four open layout tactics that champion heads-down work, too.
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GenslerOn Lifestyle
From March 12: You've seen it: #whiteandgold vs. #blackandblue. The whole world, by now, has seen it. The phenomenon that caused a black and blue dress to appear white and gold in pictures points to a foundational truth in retail environments: Lighting and space design really matter.
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The New York Times
From Sept. 17: After years of paying lip service to the idea of fostering civilized conversation over deafening clatter (and maybe throwing down a few rugs as a quick remedy), some restaurateurs appear to be listening to customers’ pleas. Acoustic buffers and panels are nothing new, but restaurant designers are becoming more precise and scientific, working to create self-enclosed huddles of talk at each table without losing the low rumble of activity that makes a place feel alive.
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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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Fast Company
From June 11: Max Chopovsky, founder of Chicago Creative Space, a firm that helps companies create thriving office cultures through design, believes that business leaders focus so much on what has worked for others that they don't spend enough time thinking about the particular needs of their own employee base. "There's no secret sauce that’s applicable to every company out there," Chopovsky says. "Companies always say they want Google's space and culture, but that’s all wrong. They shouldn't strive to be anyone else; they should strive to be themselves."
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Sourceable
From Aug. 13: While the use of paper books might be diminishing, their traditional home — the library — is at the forefront of interior design. Both public libraries and those within educational institutions are working to enter the digital age, enhance the user experience, and create community spaces that offer more than just beanbags for reading and borrowing services.
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The Dash™ Ultra-Flip™ is an elegant training table with a true Italian design focus.
Available in Metallic Sliver, it features a slim leg profile, gracefully arched
foot and heavy-duty locking casters. It is offered in virtually unlimited
laminate and edge options to meet unique, specific design requirements.
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Skift
From May 21: Hotels are rethinking room design as guests' work and play priorities merge creating the desire for a space that caters equally to both. While major brands have met this demand by adding public co-working spaces and more connected rooms, new hospitality brands are incorporating elements of a business and leisure stay from the start.
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