Back to the Future with OFS Brands at Kansas State

The older I get the more pleasure I derive from spending time with bright, energetic young people. Ironically, it doesn’t make me feel older, but younger – as if their enthusiasm somehow crosses my blood-brain barrier! And so it was, when recently I had the opportunity to spend a couple of days at Kansas State University hanging around the College of Architecture, Planning and Design. I was on the K-State campus in Manhattan, Kan., at the invitation of OFS Brands’ Doug Shapiro to sit in on a formal review panel critiquing the workplace furniture designs of three teams of two students each who were in the midst of a semester-long project to design furniture solutions to problems set for them by OFS Brands.     The company had agreed to set separate design problems for each team, just as it would if working with an outside product designer. It also …