Free Stand by Steelcase

Steelcase won five Best of NeoCon Awards at NeoCon 2012. These awards include one Gold, two Silver, one Innovation Award and One Editor's Choice Award.

The products recognized include selections its Coalesse Free Stand table, Designtex Techniques collection and Steelcase Education Solutions for Verb.

The Gold award went to the Techniques Collection from Designtex, a new wallcovering collaboration with celebrated surface designer Carla Weisberg.

RoomWizard II is a digital scheduling system designed to maximize space resources. The device is wall-mounted next to a conference room, and ambient illumination of the room’s availability status is visible from afar. Room reservations and meeting times may be set up and managed on the device itself or remotely via the Web. The system’s database tracks space usage and reservation patterns company-wide to enable more efficient planning.

Credits: IDEO design team with Steelcase
Client: Steelcase
Contact: Andrea Pomerance: apomerance@ideo.com

The core components of media:scape mini and media:scape mobile allow users to share and develop content in real-time to support team collaboration. The mobile version of media:scape can be placed on a freestanding console with wheels, while the media:scape mini can be placed on top of any surface to transform the space into a collaborative work environment.

Credits: Steelcase and IDEO
Contact: Sarah Sanzari ssanzari@peppercom.com

The international manufacturer of office furniture, Steelcase, celebrates its centennial this year. They began in 1912 as The Metal Office Furniture Co. in Grand Rapids, MI. To mark the occasion, they created a cool short film about the future. On their Facebook page, they gathered 100 children from around the world and 100 brilliant minds from enterprise and asked them what the new century may look and feel like.

While most videoconferencing environments are formal meeting spaces with little emphasis on team collaboration, media:scape with HD videoconferencing encourages engagement and the exchange of information among all participants. It was designed to create a simple walk-up and connectexperience to help workers engage quickly, share information seamlessly and increase productivity.

Credits: IDEO in partnership with Steelcase Design

Contact: Katie Hasse: khasse@steelcase.com

The Steelcase node chair is a mobile and flexible chair for classrooms that transitions from one teaching mode to the next. Node was designed in response to a changing educational environment, where classrooms and classroom furniture need to respond to a more collaborative and active learning style. With node, a classroom can switch from a lecture-based mode to a team-based mode, and back again, without interruption.

Credits: IDEO Design Team and Steelcase

Contact: Katie Clark: kclark@ideo.com

In recognition of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Steelcase Inc. partnered with Victor Group offering a limited-edition Think® chair featuring pink fabric. The pink Think chair will be available exclusively through the online Steelcase store. The purchase of a chair will allow the buyer to support the breast cancer movement.

Jessie Storey | Steelcase

If you can make an award-winning movie, then you should also be qualified to help design the office environment of the future, right? After all, a good designer should be a good storyteller, too. Jessie Storey certainly has a lock on both.