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  • 5 Innovative Designs for Office Chairs to Support You on Work Activities

    5 Innovative Designs for Office Chairs to Support You on Work Activities

    Highly appreciated nowadays in any domain, innovative designs are meant to improve our lives and make it easier. They are a result of an extraordinary combination between designers’ creativity and the latest techniques and materials. Everyone is looking for such products these days and quite many of us have also the financial possibility to enjoy their benefits. Of course, not everything which is new and make use of the latest technology means that is also very good and we bet you know enough examples already, so it’s vital to put health benefits above any others that they could bring you.

    Thinking about that, we searched for innovative design solutions that improve the way that people work and we find some excellent office chair designs from Herman Miller, a recognized innovator in contemporary interior furnishings, solutions for healthcare environments, and related technologies and services. “Most admired” and one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For” according to Fortune in 2010, Herman Miller company is operating in more than 100 countries and for more than a decade has been working with some of the most remarkable and talented designers to create furniture collections which become new reference point for performance, aesthetics, sustainable design, and value.

    1. Embody Office Chairs

     

    Herman Miller chairs for office are quite outstanding, redefining practically this piece of furniture. Imaginative modern designs which adapts naturally and adjusts automatically to a wide variation in the sizes, shapes, postures, and spinal curves of different people, textiles that are meant to enhance, not cover up, great finishes with color combination that appeal to universal tastes – all with an extremely small environmental impact, because the facilities were these items are made uses nothing but renewable energy.  We all know that whether we are in the office or at home making our daily tasks, a large part of our time is spent sitting and there is nothing surprising anymore. Sitting for hours every day in front of a computer is nowadays a fact of life which seems it won’t change any time soon, on the contrary, which unfortunately has very bad consequences on our health.

    We don’t need to read or to listen to medical research that tells us how long hours of sitting contribute to obesity and to many other negative outcomes associated with it, because many of us have experienced already these kind of effects.  So, being aware of these things, we must come up with other solutions to keep us in good heath conditions like exercise more, walk anytime we have the possibility, eat healthy and make sure you choose highly ergonomic products for your work environment.

    We need chairs that  literally keeps our bodies and minds in motion in order to be more focused and functional, and not ending up stiff and tired after a work day. With such descriptions, Herma Miller’s office chairs with innovative designs go certainly beyond expectations, totally new kind of chairs. Here are some example for office environment. For more photos and details for eachh product, please check out their website.

    2. Aeron Office Chairs

     

    3. Mirra Chairs

     

    4. SAYL Chairs

     

    5. Ergon 3 Chairs

    Photos © Herman Miller.

  • Spooky Halloween Party Ideas

    Spooky Halloween Party Ideas

    Always celebrated on October 31st, the last day of the Celtic calendar, Halloween provides the perfect excuse to round up friends and neighbors for a fun party. If you have company this year, take a look and get into the Halloween spirit with these creative Halloween party ideas which helps you to set up the perfect mood for a dramatic Halloween party that will bring out the kid in all of us. Is your house ready for entertaining?

    Receive your guests with a scary yet attractive entryway: the entryway is first point of contact with your home’s interior, that’s why if you haven’t bothered so far to do something that stands out, this year put in a little bit of extra effort and produce something totally unique for your entryway creating that enchantingly spooky atmosphere.

    A graveyard with styrofoam tombstones, a fantastic handmade witch with row of floating hats and a group of smiling pumpkins, pumpkin lanterns with swirls and flying bats or a decor with burlap banner spelling out “Halloween”, black lacquer frame with a skeleton in it and adorned with some wreaths with rosettes black polka dot ribbons, and  pillows with orange throw, the guests will certainly enjoy your fun decorations and make them think there are yummy treats inside this home.

    Photo © Full Circle Interior Solutions

    Photo © jandrea370

    Photo © FOCAL POINT STYLING

    Photo © donnasue65

    A color theme makes decorating much easier: if you want to create a big visual impact, everything should be coordinated and for that you need to pick a color scheme and stick to it. Whether you want that your interior decorations speak with high volume drama or on the countrary, if you are for something more fun and less scary, a color scheme creates a rich and cohesive look. Black, ghostly white or shades of ivory, and silver gives Halloween decor a classic and elegant twist, while the black and orange color scheme has a definite Halloween vibe.

    These typical color schemes has been enhanced lately with bold shades of purple, blue and even bright green accents. The dinner table with carefully chosen centerpieces is sure to lead to a thrilling night. Getting in the Halloween spirit means never being scared by a redecorating a little your interior. Some remarkable Jack-o-lanterns and hanging ragged-looking spiderwebs here, black cats, creative skeletons, witches, demons or ghosts there, candles evertwhere and corners with almost no light make a creepy decor successful, ready for your Halloween party.

    Photo © FOCAL POINT STYLING

    Photo © Seaside Interiors

    Photo © Pottery Barn

    Photo © Roberta Philbrick

     Photo © Decorating Ideas Made Easy

    Photo © Perpetual Kid

    Photo © Korinne Seel

    Photo © Steve Murello

    Photo © Courtney Out Loud

    Photo © mylitter.com

  • Trendy Color Combinations: Yellow and Gray

    Trendy Color Combinations: Yellow and Gray

    It’s no longer a secret that colors can dramatically update and refresh any space, but it’s always a surprise and joy when you discover new color combinations that you haven’t thought about before which make your room really stand out. Today, we’ll take a look at how a neutral hue plus a primary colour go so well together that create a gorgeous eye-popping style you’ll actually love to try for your own room: gray and yellow. Gray turns out to be a trendy hue not only in fashion, but also regarding interior design; it gives depth to subtle colours and makes bold tones pop.

    Photo © Bumble Cafe

    Despite it’s a very popular for exterior painting colour schemes, gray works great for interior decorating too. Being not dramatic as black and white, gray is good to use with other colors. The color mixes that you can do with it are almost endless, depending on want to want to achieve and taking into account that each particular shade can evoke very different feelings, having a significant impact on your mood. On the other side, yellow is the most attention-getting color, being the most visible. Bright and cheerful, it brings optimistic feelings. No matter the space you want to design (kitchen, bedroom, living room, bathroom, etc), pairing gray with any shade of yellow can enliven it and put a stamp of personal style on it. Introducing such colour palette into your interiors, can result into an unexpectedly amazing look as long as you keep the right balance between the shades and their proportions.

    Photo © Barrie Benson Interior Design

    Used properly, on a gray base design, yellow can add a warm glow and a delightful punch of colour, bringing a somewhat surprising and attractive aspect to any space, but it can be very fatiguing to the eye, sometimes creating feelings of frustration and anger if used too much. We recommend you to use lighter shades on large surfaces and darker shades on small once. Sophisticated yet very inviting, this combination works very well any interior style. The contrast between gray and yellow gives a subtle elegance, creating a clean and refreshing appearance anytime. Here you have a few ideas on how great looks gray neutral and yellow. These rooms are anything but trivial. Enjoy!

    Photo ©  Berkay Demirkan; NOA Architecture Planning Interiors

    Photo ©  Product Bureau LLC

    Photo ©  Intexure Architects

    Photo © Michelle Rasmussen

    Photo © Michelle Rasmussen

    Photo © Nicole Lanteri

    Photo © Cornerstone Architects

    Photo © Michelle Rasmussen; Michelle Hinckley

    Photo © Tracy Murdock Allied ASID

    Photo © Peter Medilek; Jute Interior Design

    Photo © Hi-Tech System Assoc., Inc.

    Photo © Tara Seawright

  • Intimacy and Drama: Interior Design Inspired by Halloween Colors

    Intimacy and Drama: Interior Design Inspired by Halloween Colors

    Have you ever thought that Halloween colors that have a long-standing tradition and are in great demand, and highly appreciated for this holiday decor, is an amazing design scheme to use in your interior design all year round? Although, it’s true that it’s a striking color palette you don’t usually see everyday, maybe in this lies the beauty. Classic and predominant colors, orange and black is kind a dramatic contrasts combination usually associated with Halloween and applied to decorations and costumes, but which works fantastically to design any room in your house no matter what your design style is.

    Photo © Diego Alejandro Design

    Since their origin for this celebration isn’t quite very friendly, orange and black don’t have to be always associated with this kind of meanings. Black means the absence of color and most people associate it with death, mourning, widohood, and generally with formal and serious occasions. In fact, black which goes well with almost any color, except brown, can also be mysterious, sexy, and sophisticated. On the other hand, orange color sparks more controversy than any other hue.

    Photo © Blount Architectual and Interior Design

    Amazingly versatile and usually unexpected in interior design, orange is a happy color, radiates fun, flamboyance and energy, but used excessively in vibrant shades can be overwhelming. Consider adding one of its warm shades and you’ll have a completely changed room with a modern, glamourous vibe. Black and orange duo is visually striking and going so, you’ll have a warm space that bursts with casual elegance. It’s a high-contrast color combination that gives a sophisticated air to interiors, which can have a dramatic look if you let black dominate.  What do you think seeing these pictures? Would you use these Halloween colors in your house all year round?

    Photo © Chad Jackson

    Photo © European Cabinets & Design Studios

    Photo © Johnson + McLeod Design Consultants

    Photo © European Cabinets & Design Studios

     Photo © Molly McGinness Interior

    Photo © Cristi Holcombe

  • Beautiful Architecture with Willow Sculptures

    Beautiful Architecture with Willow Sculptures

    The creators of willow sculptures, Trevor Leath is one of the most quite important in the UK, using traditional techniques that combine beauty with creativity, manages to weave willow over 30 years.

    The range of products made of willow architecture technique is varied, making such products as baskets, garden furniture, statues and even willow coffins, in this series are observed-size animal figures made in his technique of weaving the willow, and spectacular giant figures made for exhibitions and events, still find a few of the festivals where they were presented, The Wickerman Festival, The Edinburgh Hogmanay Celebrations and The Burns Light Festival in Dumfries. Visitors are very pleased with this work, as something new, but also a creation of great value in terms of architecture and sculpture from natural and organic materials.
    By increasing the willow organic by choosing Old but very adapted varieties to work, lath Trevor manages to amaze with his works of architecture made of willow.

    Days in the workshop

     

     Summer Coffin

     The Wickerman Festival 2012 : Hermes Willow Sculpture

    Herne the Hunter ( Wickerman Festival 2011)

     Holm Elephant, Glenkens.

    The Siren Willow Sculpture

     

     

     The Queen at Falkland Palace, Fife. June 2012

     

     Sunset Willow Sculpture

     Calgary Woods, Isle of Mull. April 2012

     Gordon Community Woodland

     

    All images ©trevorleat.co.uk

  • Element House, a Simple Space Made of Matter and Light

    Element House, a Simple Space Made of Matter and Light

    The Element House is the perfect place for passers that need to halt, to rest on the simple space, but with a special architecture, the house is situated on the river, and a forest park and the Seoul metropolitan area, it is the perfect place where people may have a shelter in their journey to return to the city, It is an invitation space for users of the Anyang Resort.

     

    On the building of this line we can see that the first and main room is the biggest, is a cubic space made of steel, this space is too small travelling to other rooms, these compact cameras are made of wood, to note is that each room includes many symbolic recommendation and based on the main elements (fire, water, air, earth). It is particularly pleasing that the material used is steel rusty colors that perfectly imitating nature around it.

     

     

     

     

     

    Element House Project information:

    The project name Element House located on Anyang Park, Anyang on Seoul, South Korea, has a 72 m2 floor area and is made it on 2006 for Anyang Public Art Project, this significant project is designed by Rintala Eggertsson Architects and their team. This Project Is made by a Site-specific architectural base to Bisan Urban Natural Park, Anyang Resort.

     

     

     

    All images © Rintala Eggertsson

  • How Much did Famous Logo Designs Cost?

    How Much did Famous Logo Designs Cost?

    The internet brands always invested in their look, and for having a famous image, the brands spend money for obtaining a representative logo, this logo must be a distinctive visual identity, Stock Logos, a strong and large’s design community, has a part with us a list of famous logos, in this article I will allocate you a selection list for the brands logos cost, this range that stretch from $0 to $211,000,000

    A notable example is the current Microsoft logo, according to the Seattle Times, Microsoft recently updated for the first time in 25 years their logo.

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    Pepsi paid for their Pepsi logo a price tag: $1,000,000

    The Pepsi logo was designed in 2008 by the Arnell Group, and had a $1,000,000 costs, in this amount the designers made a complete branding package.

    Australia and New Zealand Banking paid for their Group logo price tag: $15,000,000

    ANZ or New Zealand Banking Group paid for they logo $15,000,000, the logo was redesigned in 2009.

     

    Accenture paid for their logo price tag: $100,000,000

    The Accenture logo paid $100,000,000 for their logo and this kind symbol was designed by Landor Associates in 2000.

    BBC paid for their logo a price tag: $1,800,000

    The BBC logo was bought with $1,800,000 and was redesigned in 1997.

    British Petrol (BP) paid for their logo a price tag: $211,000,000

    The BP logo gave for the logo $211,000,000 and the logo were designed in 2008.

    Enron paid for their logo a price tag: $33,000

    The Enron paid for the logo $33,000, the logo was designed by Paul Rand in the 1990s.

    Glasgow 2014 Games paid for the logo a price tag: $95,000

    The Glasgow 2014 Games gave for the logo a price $95,000, the logo was designed by Marque Agency and this amount only includes the logo design.

    Google logo price tag: $0

    Google kept the original idea for Google logo design is and the original concept is keeping today, by the day the Google sign it has been fine-tuned, but the original idea it is the same. The original Google logo was designed by Sergey Brin in 1998, Sergey Brin is one of Google’s founders in Gimp.

    Coca-Cola logo price tag: $0

    For Coca-Cola sign, today it is the same first and the concept logo for Coca-Cola, the logo was designed by John Pemberton’s bookkeeper, Frank Mason Robinson, in 1885. Robinson came up with the name and chose the mark’s distinctive cursive script.  The Logo was designed in the mid-19th century.

    The price for London 2012 Olympics logo was: $625,000

    The 2012 Olympics logo designed by Wolff Ollins in 2007, was bought with $625,000

    City of Melbourne paid for they logo a price tag: $625,000

    The City of Melbourne paid for the logo $625,000, the logo was designed by Landor Associates in 2009.

    NeXT symbol bought the logo with a price tag: $100,000

    The NeXT logo was designed in 1986 by Paul Rand for Steve Jobs and the cost was $100,000

    Nike logo price tag: $35

    In 1975 Carolyn Davidson was designed the Nike logo. For $35 only included the logo design, by the time the Nike logo has been refined but the original concept has been kept intact.

    Twitter for their logo paid a price tag: $15

    The Twitter logo was designed in 2009 by Simon Oxley.

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  • Furniture for Bikes

    Furniture for Bikes

    For bike, it is difficult to imagine  furniture which are suitable for our home, but furniture for Bikes set by Quarterre is terrific, don’t use a standard design for this constitution, but like a bake stand is perfect adaptable for our home, this product use  high quality materials and draw on the tones of Cherchbi brand’s accessories set. The modern ‘Fell Grey’ color & dark wood finish for the stands have been urbanized to evaluate the hand finished leather listing, these aspects include Cherchbi’s signature Herdwyck Tweed & vegetable-tanned English saddle leather.

    The form has a distinctive sculptural side of Hood, has based an architectural creativity and holds a single bike securely by its main tube.  The object is created from steel and finished with hand made with exceptionally and admirable, visual aspects.  The Special Edition Hood is showed in the ‘Fell Grey’ tone and a long expression using the Cherchbi’s dark brown English saddle leather and Herdwyck Tweed. This beautiful Bike effects support vertical storage for up to two bikes and on advantage can be used it for two sets of variable arms, which can adapt to a variable frame shapes.  A significant advantage is the unit can support each independent by other one, or to be secured to the wall, this Branchline is the best plan for and is adaptable for small spaces, because can also be reversed, the legs are using a set of arms for hanging utensils. The bamboo with a splendid dark brown finish is using for this Special Edition Branchline.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    All images © Quarterre