Posts Tagged: Report

Milliken & Company Publishes Third Annual Corporate Sustainability Report

Global manufacturer Milliken & Company has released its third annual corporate sustainability report, entitled Together for Tomorrow. This report, which analyses Milliken’s performance through the lens of its holistic sustainability efforts, highlights its progress towards the 2025 sustainability goals the company set in 2018. Covering people, product and planet, this report creates increased accountability while… Read More >

2 June 2021

GoSmart’s Workspace Solutions

Agile working is no longer a pipe dream – it’s already here. According to BT, 80% of its staff now use agile practices, resulting in a 30% rise in productivity (source: IT PRO). The telecoms giant says it’s also decreased stress-related illness among its workforce by more than a third. GoSmart’s Director Phil Tipson speaks… Read More >

23 October 2019

save! Smart sanitation for a sustainable future

Earlier this year at ISH in Frankfurt, Laufen presented the innovative Save! waste-separating WC, which is a sustainable new product that meets a little-known environmental problem of our time: the pollution of our water by nitrogen. The urine-separation WC Save!, designed by the Austrian design studio EOOS, functions like a conventional flushing toilet and contributes… Read More >

12 August 2019

The greatest wealth is health

Tim Armitt, Managing Director at Lyndon, explains why it’s more important than ever for designers to create environments that are conducive to good health and wellbeing. Health and wellbeing are hot topics across all walks of life. From the food we eat to daily mindfulness, meditation and yoga practices, it seems like everyone is hitched… Read More >

20 May 2019

Laufen redesigns the modern working world

The modern working world is changing; the borderline between offices and public areas is becoming increasingly blurred. In view of this, what are the required standards for sanitary facilities at work? The example of the new building to house the corporate headquarters of Scott Sports in Switzerland shows how an office building can become a… Read More >

3 April 2019

An Inclusive and Diverse Office Design

Written by Mark Davies & Rosalind Poerwantoro The workforce today is more diverse than it has ever been, and commercial offices and workspaces have an important role to play in supporting this. When working with our clients across the financial, legal and tech industries to design or reimagine their workspaces, promoting inclusivity is one of the main… Read More >

5 March 2019

To meet or not to meet…

Mark Barrell, Design Director at Boss Design, explains how the role of meetings is changing in response to the change in the workplace landscape. The subject of meetings is an emotive one. Everybody has sat through unnecessary or misbegotten meetings and left them with an awareness of to-dos that will remain undone. Yet at the… Read More >

1 March 2019

Knightsbridge Explores Holiday Decisions

Robert Walton, Sales and Marketing Director at Knightsbridge Furniture, has spoken with Design Insider about their new report into hotels and hospitality. This study looked at what people research when looking for a holiday destination. Please could you introduce yourself? Robert Walton, Sales & Marketing Director at Knightsbridge Furniture for 15 months having spent the previous 15 years as… Read More >

31 January 2019

Chelsom’s take on the Cruise Industry

Given that the cruise industry has boomed in excess of 30% in the last 8 years this illustrates that life is becoming more about the journey not necessarily the destination where the world of hospitality is concerned. A distinct shift in the mechanics of our lives in terms of how we sleep, rest and play… Read More >

25 January 2019

Getting heavy with metal

As my short material essays have detailed over the course of the year, there have been multiple ‘material ages;’ large periods of time in which the human race relied upon a particular material in maintaining and developing the species. There are however, very few that can boast to being the inspiration behind an entire music… Read More >

18 December 2018

SALONE DEL MOBILE MILANO 2016 REPORT

Our friends at Inside Out Contracts went out to Milan last week to soak in the atmosphere of the Salone Del Mobile Milano and they have kindly shared their thoughts on some of the big trends. Regarded as the most anticipated international event in the furniture industry, the 55th annual Salone Del Mobile Milano has once… Read More >

29 April 2016