design thinking

Michael Drescher and Jacob Olsen on finding the sweet spot with Herman Miller’s Sayl Chair

In the second instalment of our performance seating three-parter, we turn to DKO’s Michael Drescher and Jacob Olsen to peek behind Sayl’s confident architectural form and explore the ideas of inclusivity, adaptability and freedom to move as hallmarks of what sitting your best actually means.

Indesign

Dale O’Brien on sitting easy with Herman Miller’s Verus Chair

In the first instalment of our three-part series exploring what it means to sit your best, we pose the question to Gray Puksand’s Dale O’Brien, who discusses the importance of ease and majority rule when it comes to sitting and reveals why specifying a task chair is not unlike choosing a Volvo.

Ideas

What is the role of design in a world in crisis?

At the World Design Congress in London, a simple idea threaded through two dense days: design is not an island. It moves inside wider systems of economics, policy, finance and ecology.

Ideas

Prototyping the workplace with Unispace

“Move fast and break things.” It’s a mantra that has defined Silicon Valley and the Zuckerberg-age of technology development. But can the same methodology be applied to workplace design? Unispace thinks so, at least in part.

Ideas

Quantifying human-centered design: Cliff Ho from The Commons

Cliff Ho, CEO and co-founder of co-working group The Commons, pens a think piece that looks at the world of design thinking and how designers can use their talents for better design outcomes.

People

What can design learn from gelato? Molonglo Group’s Nectar Efkarpidis elaborates

Eloquent and intensely creative, Nectar Efkarpidis talks about the experience and process required to make unconventional and non-linear design projects. Ice cream included.

People

5 minutes with Airbnb’s head of design

Head designer of Airbnb Alex Schleifer talks designing for trust and the ingenuity of Airbnb hosts.

Ideas

A first-class welcome: Designing client experiences

Coming straight out of the latest issue of Indesign is a story that sets the tone for the magazine, and it’s all about the shifts in workplaces. Futurespace’s Angela Ferguson and international design icon Tim Kobe open our world up to new possibility.

Ideas

Where to for Design Thinking in 2018?

With the New Year well and truly upon us, we’ve put together the top 5 ways we want to see design thinking evolve in the coming 12 months.

People

Five Mins With… Nest Architecture’s Emilio Fuscaldo

Sure, making grand architectural statements is great, but for Nest Architecture’s Emilio Fuscaldo the transformative power of design lies in small gestures that come from asking revealing questions.

Projects

Masters Of Next-Gen Retail: Telstra Discovery Melbourne by Geyer

What is the value of transparency in the process of design? Does the market care? Do our clients? Is it important in defining what our industry can do, or is it just about recognition from our peers?

People

Who Is Domenic Alvaro?

Architect and director of Woods Bagot’s global design studio, Domenic Alvaro
is one of the industry’s most original thinkers. Working across every imaginable sector
the world over, Alvaro’s design philosophy is simple: agitate traditional typologies.

Michael Drescher and Jacob Olsen on finding the sweet spot with Herman Miller’s Sayl Chair

Dale O’Brien on sitting easy with Herman Miller’s Verus Chair

What is the role of design in a world in crisis?

Prototyping the workplace with Unispace

Quantifying human-centered design: Cliff Ho from The Commons

What can design learn from gelato? Molonglo Group’s Nectar Efkarpidis elaborates

5 minutes with Airbnb’s head of design

A first-class welcome: Designing client experiences

Where to for Design Thinking in 2018?

Five Mins With… Nest Architecture’s Emilio Fuscaldo

Masters Of Next-Gen Retail: Telstra Discovery Melbourne by Geyer

Who Is Domenic Alvaro?

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