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Category Archives: Industry
the difficult color
There is more to green than meets the eye. It is a color whose history makes a notable irony of green’s contemporary meaning and application. Green has vexed artists and colorists for centuries. All this was nicely encapsulated in a … Continue reading
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Posted in Color, Contract interiors, Industry, Opinion
Tagged color, color application, color history, color story, color theory, green
hat tips 2012
“It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Berkeley, CA, 1911
(Via In His Own Words by Theodore Roosevelt Association.)
In this, the second annual presentation of the Please Remain … Continue reading
Posted in Industry, Opinion, SWA
Tagged Hat Tips 2012, haute living, JustStand.org, mobili mobel, montauk sofa, SHP Leading Design, Steelcase Store
a solid case for selling online
Selling office furniture online is an idea whose time may have come, even if it is not a topic of energetic conversation. Perhaps a checkered past is to blame. It was tried in the early years of the Internet and … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Brand, Contract interiors, Industry
Tagged Coalesse, Laura Van Slyke, Luke Rumley, Steelcase, Steelcase Store, Turnstone
four months in review
Since March of this year, I have been on a journey of conversations and ideas. Not that I have traveled all that much, but the journey has been a succession of interviews for three projects that have happily filled my … Continue reading
of march and neocon rising
If months of the year had feelings, some of them might indulge dark resentments toward March. Seems that March has something for everyone where celebrations, events and holidays are concerned. Maybe the less fortunate months have reasons to be resentful. … Continue reading
Posted in Brand, Contract interiors, Industry, Publicity, Shows
Tagged Kasey Madden, Merchandise Mart, MMPI, myneocon, NeoCon 2012, neocon checklist, Sara O'Hare
three showroom visits
How often do visitors arrive at Chicago’s Merchandise Mart by cab or train, disappear inside its gleaming doors, then leave the same way—not discovering what lies just to the north? Perhaps some have enjoyed the restaurants, boutiques and galleries there. … Continue reading
we stand to gain
Stand pat. Stand tall. Take a stand. Making up one’s mind and expressing it publicly means one has taken a stand. Could another meaning be attached to these words, one that connects office workers around the world with resources for … Continue reading
Posted in Active workplace, Contract interiors, Industry, Sustainabilty
Tagged active workplace, Carrie Schmitz, commercial interiors, Ergotron, Frank Booth, James Levine, JustStand.org, Leon Straker, Michelle Judd, National Physical Activity Plan, nonexercise activity, office interiors, United States Physical Activity Guidelines
hat tips 2011
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber’d here
While these visions did appear.
— Act V, scene ii-epilogue, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
These famous lines at the end of A Midsummer Night’s Dream are addressed … Continue reading