Topic: Steelcase Inc.

Steelcase Reinvents the Hospital Cart for the Health Care Revolution

A new medical cart called Pocket is flexible enough to serve nurses and doctors through both low- and high-tech tasks.READ»

IDEO and Steelcase Unveil a School Desk for the Future of Teaching [UPDATED]

The Node chair adapts to the myriad activities that occur in the modern classroom.READ»

Steelcase Goes DIY With Ecovative Home-Grown Packaging (It's Edible, Too)

Next time a company brags about their sustainable packaging, ask why they aren't growing it themselves. Steelcase, a Michigan-based office furniture company, is doing exactly that as part of a partnership with packaging startup ...READ»

The Hub Bay Area: Where Change Agents Share Space and Ideas

The newest location of a global network of sustainable shared workspaces lives up to its tagline: "Where Change Goes to Work."READ»

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Wall-E: Reconfigurable Walls at Stanford d.school Make Each Class the Perfect Size

Can classroom design influence the quality of learning? Anybody who's sat in the back row of a big lecture hall with empty seats up front can tell you it's a perfect setup for disengagement--or for updating your Facebook page.It's a ...READ»

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Why Design Thinking Is the Next Competitive Advantage

With "The Design of Business," Roger Martin demonstrates how companies can successfully adopt the methodologies and perspectives that designers use to solve problems and run more efficient, effective and competitive businesses. In a world of increasing sameness with every business looking for an edge, Martin effectively argues for embracing design thinking as business strategy. READ»

You Cannot Go Backwards Into the Future

When it comes to positive climate action, those who say it can't be done shouldn't interrupt those who are doing it.READ»

The Future of Work Is Shared

I am an entrepreneur, a consultant in trend strategy with a virtual office. For 15 years I worked fulltime in offices and corporations as a designer, I am familiar with the cube-a-day world. These last ...READ»

The Imagineered Workspace: Jason Heredia

A mainstay of the office furniture set, Steelcase is branching into less institutional territory with it's Coalesse brand. Like Bernhardt Design, it is pulling together creative, young, international designers to develop furniture ...READ»

An In-Depth Look at the Hospital of the Future

The hospital of the future is designed not just to heal the sick but also to help sustain the environment.READ»

The New Work Space: Will Lounge-Like Office Furniture Inspire Big Ideas?

The new pieces reflect changes in the way work gets done: It's less about the desk, and more about the coffee-break gabfest.READ»

Introducing Guest Blogger Graham Button: Designing Experiences That Are "True from the Center"

While he didn't know it at the time, Graham Button hit a significant career turning point the day that Grey Worldwide won the Frontier Airlines account. In the course of working with the airline, Button, the ad agency's creative ...READ»

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Introducing Guest Blogger Laura Guido-Clark: Creating Beauty That's Skin-Deep

If you want to get to know designer Laura Guido-Clark, you might start by tooling around her Web site. Slide your cursor, even to a mundane link--"Contact," say--and suddenly you've drawn a cool and sinuous patterned coral line on a ...READ»

Sign of the Times: Economy Forces Steelcase to Vacate Its Iconically Weird HQ

The company's infamous pyramid, once bustling, will soon be as empty as a tomb.READ»

Inconveniently Designed Furniture That Helps You Burn Calories

Ferran Lajara believes that furniture design--which is all about convenience and comfort--also makes us lazy and fat. And so, working with Cristina Guardiola and Virginia Pol, he designed pieces that require us to get up and move ...READ»

Inside the Lego-plex: No Wonder They Hatch Such Great Ideas

Lego is one of the world's most creative companies. What kind of office is equal to the task of housing its development staff? Here's a peek inside the company's work space, designed by Bosch & Fjord. It's clever enough, with ...READ»

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Why a Bowling Shirt Made Me Love David Kelley

It was a Power Point slide of Ettore Sottsass in a bowling shirt that first made Jim Hackett, CEO of Steelcase, want to get to know David Kelley. Fifteen years ago, Hackett remembers, the Ideo founder had been summoned to ...READ»

17 Career Lessons from Ideo's David Kelley

David Kelley is well-known for his astute application of design thinking to many of life's intractable problems. Less known is that he's also a veritable Dr. Phil of good advice about life, careers, and the importance of not being a ...READ»

Can a New Administration Spur Innovation in Design?

Regardless of political leanings, for most of us, we agree that this has undoubtedly been a significant week in history.  I have contemplated all week about how I could speak about this momentous transition and not just be one more ...READ»

Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough

William McDonough, the godfather of green design, has been hailed by everyone from Hollywood to Silicon Valley to the Chinese government as the environmental savior. His radical "cradle to cradle" idea -- in which every product, building, and city is designed in an infinite loop with zero waste -- has earned him the Presidential Design Award for Sustainable Development. He was Time's "Hero for the Planet" and has been profiled in documentaries from Thomas Friedman's "Addicted to Oil" to Leonardo DiCaprio's "The Eleventh Hour." And yet, McDonough may in fact be paralyzing his own design revolution.READ»

America's Greenest City

The Rust Belt city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, takes on a green patina -- and finds that it boosts businessREAD»

The Vacation Quandary Continues—Is a Law the Answer? I’m Not So Sure…

A new poll conducted for an organization called Take Back Your Time found that “69% of Americans support a paid vacation law with a large percentage favoring a law guaranteeing three weeks vacation or more.”  The poll also ...READ»

A Prescription for Innovation

The Mayo Clinic's new SPARC lab is driving experimentation at the frontier of health care. How? By getting physicians to think more like designers.READ»

50 Ways to Green Your Business

Half-a-hundred options for cleaning up your business, from the universal (catch that rainwater!) to the specific (lose the plastic bowls!). Mix, match--join in.READ»

Talent Pool

Making their mark from New York to Tokyo. Fourteen talents who are driving design forward.READ»