Teknion, a leading workplace furniture manufacturer, is excited to announce the launch of the brand’s highly anticipated book: Design Does Matter, The True Measure of a Space is How it Makes Us Feel. The second installment in Teknion’s library of research, the book reveals the proper equation to achieving a happy and productive office space.
Comprised of essays by noted design professionals, scholars, and writers, The True Measure of a Space is How it Makes Us Feel provides designers, realtors, business-owners, facility managers, and human resource professionals, insight and tools for creating a corporate environment that thoughtfully plays to the end-user’s psychology.
Contributing designers include:
- Luke Pearson and Tom Lloyd of PearsonLloyd: PearsonLloyd is a multi award-winning product, furniture and innovation design studio based in Shoreditch, East London. For the last twenty years, the agency has designed products, systems and environments for the home, workplace, transport and healthcare sectors—most recenting garnering attention for a groundbreaking aviation design for Lufthansa.
- Suzanne Tick of Suzanne Tick Inc: Suzanne Tick is the founder of award-winning Suzanne Tick Inc., specializing in materials brand strategy, product design, development, and direction for commercial interiors. Her work is exhibited worldwide, including MoMA and Art Basel, as well as collected by private and corporate clients. In 2016 Suzanne was honored to present her unique and personal approach to these hand-woven pieces with her TedXNavesink talk: Weaving Trash into Treasure.
- Lauren Rottet of RottetStudio: Lauren Rottet is the founding principal of RottetStudio, an international architecture and design firm based in Houston, Texas. She is a member of Interior Design’s Hall of Fame and was the first woman to be a fellow of both the International Interior Design Association and the American Institute of Architects.
The new book is available for download here.