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Printing home décor: generation next
July 1st, 2013
Younger consumers want to live in environments that reflect their individuality and interests, and Maxwell Dickson, Los Angeles, Calif., prints canvases, pillows, clocks and coffee tables with images that grab the imagination. “We try to create an urban, colorful vibe in our products that appeals to our market demographic,” says James Freeman, who, with Bart […]
“Cloud boxes” soften offices
July 1st, 2013
Clutter distracts, multiple voices jangle and machines beep, ring or stutter. Welcome to the modern office, where tuning out human or mechanical drones and tones can make edgy employees into cutting-edge creative dynamos. PROOFFLab, the experimental lab for PROOFF (which stands for PROgressive OFFice), is an innovation platform for ideas and products for a communal, […]
‘Lightframes’ enlighten car shoppers
July 1st, 2013
Americans are expected to buy more than 14 million new vehicles in 2013, and the Audi Manhattan dealership in New York City provides these prospective consumers with a luxury experience and a clean, elegant ambiance. When buyers pick up their gleaming new Audis, the dealership showcases the cars in a vehicle handover area bathed in […]
Knot for everyone: rope with scope in New York
July 1st, 2013
The Madison Square Art program commissioned artist Orly Genger to create an installation for the Madison Square Park Conservancy in New York, N.Y., and gave her a lot of rope. On May 1, the park introduced “Red, Yellow and Blue,” three undulating chambers made of 1.4 million feet of intricately hand-knotted nautical rope covered in […]
Flint Industries turbidity barrier breakthrough
July 1st, 2013
[Flint Industries] Metter, Ga., U.S.A. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers used 5,500 linear feet of TITANBoom® turbidity barrier for a major restoration of Ship Island near Gulfport, Miss. The barrier not only endured through the 12-month project, it withstood the impact of a Category I hurricane and several tropical storms—with no damage to the […]
European textile exports increasing—outside EU
July 1st, 2013
The eurozone crisis and fiscal belt-tightening by European Union (EU) governments are decreasing demand for European textiles and clothing within the EU, according to Textile Outlook International (Issue No. 161), a report from Textiles Intelligence. The latest data show EU textiles and clothing exports to countries outside the European Union increased in value by 6.3 […]
A new kind of landfill cover system
July 1st, 2013
[Afitex-Texel] Champhol, France In landfill final cover systems, geocomposite drainage products are frequently used as a drainage layer above the geomembrane layer and for surficial landfill gas collection below the geomembrane. For the first time in the southeastern United States, a final cover system has been constructed using a draintube planar geocomposite product rather than […]
Turning engineering into art: the heart of passionate design
July 1st, 2013
Nic Goldsmith uses his architectural vision to design innovative fabric structures. By Sigrid Tornquist “I think there are a lot of areas where fabric technology could be applied and it’s not,” says Nic Goldsmith, FAIA, LEED, AP, senior principal of FTL Design and Engineering Studio in New York, N.Y. “Part of my role as an […]
Breaking ground in Africa
July 1st, 2013
A big, wide-open market equals growth opportunity for the tent business. By Barb Ernster Having grown up in Uganda until age seven, Nick Lavy, managing director at Röder UK Ltd., says, “There’s something about the lure of Africa that brings you back. It gets in your blood.” From his office in Cambridge, U.K., Lavy can […]
How smart are your clothes?
July 1st, 2013
These clothes have a mind of their own. Research from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, may be taking the next quantum leap in textile design: computerized fabrics that change their color and shape in response to movement. Joanna Berzowska, professor and chair of the Department of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia, has developed interactive electronic […]