Exhibit wraps truth in ‘paper’ package

August 1, 2015  |  Projects

EXHIBITORLIVE!, North America’s premier event for trade show and event marketing professionals, gives marketing firms like Derse, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., a platform to strut their stuff for an audience of 6,000. Derse’s design concept for its large booth at the 2015 EXHIBITORLIVE! feat…
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Room for inspiration

August 1, 2015  |  Features, Markets, Upholstery

The commercial upholstery market is becoming increasingly performance oriented, with noticeable growth in health care, hospitality and sports. New fabrics and coatings are in demand, and in development. When most people think of commercial upholstery, they think of offices . While that`s a big part …
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Student innovation

August 1, 2015  |  Projects

When industry and academia collide, design and technology become natural partners. Both researchers and students had a strong presence at the Techtextil show in Frankfurt, Germany, May 4–7. The work exhibited was in varying stages of development, but as a whole forms an important barometer of the …
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Printed exhibit documents three roads to freedom

August 1, 2015  |  Projects

The City of Chandler, Ariz., sponsors the Celebration of Unity each year to honor community diversity, the achievements of the civil rights movement and the spirit, ideals, life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The 15th annual celebration in January and February 2015 brought together multicu…
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Keeping it cool in space

August 1, 2015  |  Advanced Textiles, Markets

Specialized textiles play an important role in thermal control for an evolving aerospace marketplace. Where there are flights, space missions and satellites, there are advanced textiles. For composites used in aircraft engines, multi-layer insulation (MLI) blankets for launch support and satellites,…
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Work smarter

August 1, 2015  |  Markets, Tents

Tools and strategies to help tent rental companies get maximum efficiency from their crews. “Our philosophy is that installing tents is hard. How can we make it easier for the installer?” posits Kenny Puff, armed with an answer. “Every tent installer should have his own toolkit with the basics…
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Selling shade

August 1, 2015  |  Awnings & Canopies, Features, Markets, Perspective

Conrad Masterson builds his business by focusing on what clients really want—and what employees need. “The first thing I learned when I entered the shade sail industry was to focus on what the customer really wants,” says Conrad Masterson, president of SHADE Industries, Phoenix, Ariz. “T…
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The sky’s the limit

August 1, 2015  |  Projects

Shang Xia, a high-end retailer purveying the best of Chinese design and craftsmanship, wanted its boutique in Shanghai, China, to reflect the light and simplicity of its clothing, furniture and household products. The 1909 red-brick building housing the boutique posed a challenge for Kengo Kuma and …
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Dual-purpose draping

August 1, 2015  |  Projects

A luxury high-rise apartment melds aspects of lifestyle, image and opulence to attract its clientele, and The Vermont in Los Angeles, Calif., sought that special touch that would set it apart. Cliff Garten of Cliff Garten Studio in Venice, Calif., was commissioned to create an architecturally integr…
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Lightweight looks great

August 1, 2015  |  Projects

What do 3-D printing, sportswear fabric and a leaf have in common? All of them inspired EDAG Engineering AG, the largest independent engineering firm in the automotive industry, to develop the EDAG Light Cocoon concept car. EDAG, headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, brought the striking vehicle to t…
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