| |
 |
| |
Focus
Monday, September 01, 2008 Humanscale Founder and CEO Robert King is featured in the September/October 2008 issue of World Wildlife Fund’s Focus newsletter. The article highlights Humanscale’s recent $750,000 commitment to WWF, which will support anti-poaching and anti-logging patrols on 1.5 million acres of ecologically rich habitat in eastern Cambodia. This effort is aimed at protecting indigenous and endangered ...view full story
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
 |
| |
Time Style and Design
Monday, May 01, 2006 CLAIM TO FAME: King is the founder and chief executive of Humanscale, a maker of ergonomic office products. Most high-performance desk chairs depend on a maze of knobs and levers to control the settings. Humanscale seat positions are based on the sitter’s weight, so the chairs require fewer parts and us...view full story
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
 |
| |
Slate Magazine
Tuesday, December 06, 2005 The following is an article synopsis, for the full text of the article, visit http://www.slate.com/id/2131646/
Liberty was selected as the "Overall Winner" by Slate Magazine in a review of current options in office seating. The author notes "I can't say enough about this chair. The child of design legend Nie ...view full story
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
 |
| |
Metropolis Magazine
Thursday, July 01, 2004 Niels Diffrient is designing a second task chair for Humanscale, a company named after the booklets he co-wrote in the 1970's, a guide to designing for the human body that quickly became the industry standard... The chair, called Liberty, was launched at NeoCon in June. As with his Freedom chair, which debuted in 1999 and turned the little-known Humanscale into a contender among the big office- ...view full story
|
| |
PDF - of Metropolis Article 7/04 |
|
|
| |
 |
| |
Forbes
Monday, March 29, 2004 It is a marriage of convenience. Six years ago, when Robert King met Niels Diffrient, King was struggling to lift Humanscale, a small maker of ergonomic products for the office, to the next level. He wanted a classy desk chair that would compete with the established master of back support, Herman Miller's Aeron model. Diffrient was a frustrated industrial designer with pioneering achievements, ...view full story
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
| |
Contract
Wednesday, October 01, 2003 In the past, discussing technology support furniture would often lead to products like monitor arms, keyboard trays, and mouse pads. But, with the pervasiveness of technology today, the idea of technology support furniture has come to encompass a much broader range of products and environments. From laptops in the classroom to videoconferencing in multipurpose rooms or cell phone/PDA hybrids in ...view full story
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
 |
| |
Buildings
Thursday, May 01, 2003 The aftermath of Sept. 11 has dramatically changed the way the facilities management community views the built environment. Building owners and facilities managers, in addition to managing traditional fire and emergency evacuation programs, now have to also consider Homeland Security issues.
In 1999, Jersey City, NJ, began an extensive safety program via its mandatory Fire Marshal Certi ...view full story
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
 |
| |
Blueprint
Tuesday, April 01, 2003 The office chair is probably the most commonly used piece of professional equipment that exists. If you’re looking to upgrade yours the first place you might try is Humanscale’s new showroom in Clerkenwell, and have a go at perching your derriere on the Freedom Chair.
It’s amazingly comfortable, and sales have surpassed all expectations in the US, where it launched a few years ago. But ...view full story
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
 |
| |
National Post
Saturday, March 22, 2003 A funky looking ergonomic office chair that retails for $3,890 has become a star on movie and television sets. The Freedom chair has been given prime billing on the popular TV drama 24, starring Kiefer Sutherland, where the chairs surround the fictional president's boardroom table and another 16 make up the show’s command centre set.
“They’re crazy about the chair,” says Harold Randall, ...view full story
|
| |
PDF - National Post Article |
|
|
| |
 |
| |
Popular Science
Saturday, March 01, 2003 Alan Hedge has been studying what makes people uncomfortable for more than 25 years, but lately he’s been a little sore. As director of Cornell’s Human Factors Laboratory, he sums up the current state of ergonomics, the science of human-centered workplace design: “There’s a lot of hogwash out there,” he says. “It’s not about having something feel different, it’s about considering human anatomic ...view full story
|
| |
PDF - Popular Science Article |
|
|
| |
 |
| |
Interior Design
Saturday, February 01, 2003 Ever since his student days, assisting Eero Saarinen at his Michigan studio, Niels Diffrient has treated engineering and user-friendliness as equal to aesthetics. And he's proved himself adept at applying this philosophy to everything from thermostats to furniture. A sewing machine designed with Italian architect Marco Zanuzo won Diffrient a Compasso d'Oro award as early as 1957. Over the decad ...view full story
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
 |
| |
Popular Mechanics
Wednesday, January 01, 2003 My back hurts all the time and my wrists don’t feel so hot either. Sometimes I get pains in my legs that I can’t explain. Some of my discomforts can be attributed to getting older — I’m 33, for God’s sake. But like many people who work on computers for a living, I have a sneaking suspicion that poor posture and unfortunate choices in office equipment may be partly to blame. Of course I looked a ...view full story
|
| |
PDF - Popular Mechanics Article |
|
|
| |
 |
| |
Award Magazine
Monday, December 02, 2002 But, even though their spending power is not what it used to be, consumers still expect a lot from contract seating. Notes Basanda: "Mesh is still very much popular, and so is minimalist styling. Ergonomics remains a major consideration in that people expect their chairs to be comfortable and have proper lower lumbar support."
If money were not an issue, every last office worker in North A ...view full story
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
 |
| |
Buildings Magazine
Sunday, December 01, 2002 Are these on your wish list? With overwhelming attention being paid to issues such as indoor air quality, employee comfort, and life-safety and security, buildings professionals have the hands-on buying power to maximize building performance and boost productivity. 2002's Top Product Picks, as selected the the Buildings Editorial Team, are sure to help you in your facilities.
#1 Pick ...view full story
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
 |
| |
Today's Facility Manager
Wednesday, October 02, 2002 Niels Diffrient is one of a kind. For the last 30 years, his ground breaking work has blended ergonomics, engineering, and visual aesthetics without compromising a single aspect of this balanced triad. TFM Editor Heidi Schwartz recently had the pleasure of absorbing a bit of his insight while hearing his wonderful stories.
TFM: How did you get involved in the field of product design?...view full story
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
 |
| |
SoHo Today
Tuesday, October 01, 2002 Bringing comfort home In the commercial end of the office market, accessories such as keyboard supports, monitor stands and ergonomic lighting have long been popular with companies seeking to create comfortable, productive environments for their employees. But, now, many of these products are migrating into the home office as well, as workers seek to replicate the extra touches of comfort found ...view full story
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
| |
ASID ICON
Thursday, August 01, 2002 Office work means office chairs and they can be a pain in the back. Clients opting for the Freedom chair from Humanscale Corporation will be pain-free. That's because this ergonomically designed task chair adapts to its user's movements without any need to adjust knobs or dials. An intelligent mechanism senses the user's weight, automatically adjusting the backrest ension for optimal support as ...view full story
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
| |
Officeinsight
Tuesday, July 02, 2002 Not many companies make the jump from ergonomic accessory vendor to world-class chair company in a single bound. But Humanscale has done it. The Freedom chair was introduced as a prototype in 1999, a little over a year after the company began working with industrial designer Niels Diffrient. Now, two years later, a prominent designer working on a law-office project was about to discuss seating ...view full story
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
 |
| |
Chicago Tribune
Sunday, June 16, 2002 Flat-screen computer monitors may be slick, but they have not done much to improve the sleekness of the desk they sit on--primarily because they're still sitting on that desk. The freed-up space resulting from the monitor's thin profile is typically behind the monitor and of no real benefit to the user.
Humanscale, maker of ergonomic office products, adds some logic to the picture with its ...view full story
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
 |
| |
Fortune Small Business
Friday, June 01, 2001 It seems I had found my chair. It was slick, it was comfortable, it had its own axiom. Then again, that axiom was two years old. Who knew what a couple of years meant in seating technology? Sure, the Aeron is popular, but is it still the state of the art?
That brought me to the folks at Levenger, a Florida-based merchant whose catalog offers up all sorts of elaborate takes on usually m ...view full story
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
| |
Interiors & Sources Magazine
Friday, September 01, 2000 This month I draw your attention to a David versus Goliath tournament which is happening in the category of office task seating. According to Niels Diffrient, the internationally acclaimed designer, who is the David in this instance, not much major innovation has been happening in the chair business for some time. True there is the Herman Miller Aeron chair, which is the undisputed world bestse ...view full story
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
| |
Mix Interiors
Sunday, July 02, 2000 One year on, another NeoCon, another exclusive for the men of Mix. Thanks to an immaculate piece of SAS-style tactics and better timing than a Mark McGuire grand slam (I watched too much baseball in Chicago), we managed to sit both Niels Diffrient - the much lauded designer of Freedom - and Humanscale's CEO Bob King in the same room. There is a renewed feeling of excitement throughout the Human ...view full story
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
 |
| |
Wired
Saturday, July 01, 2000 The New Economy is fundamentally about sitting on your ass. The Digital Revolution means sitting with a devout intensity that has never been equaled by sitters before. It means staring rigidly into a single screen and moving your fingers up and down. It means a generation, hunched forward tensely, groping for cybernetic interaction, typing and clicking. Forget those little breaks that used to c ...view full story
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
 |
| |
Metropolis
Tuesday, November 02, 1999 There are people for whom a chair is just a thing to sit on; people for whom an office chair is just a thing to sit on at the office. David Gresham isn't among them. "A chair is magical and wonderful because it can be sort of an icon of intent, an icon of vision," he says, growing happy and intense. "At its best, it transcends being just two physical planes in relation to each other, which you ...view full story
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
 |
| |
Grid
Monday, November 01, 1999 With its new Leap design, Steelcase is betting $35 million it can unseat Herman Miller's Aeron as the preeminent ergonomic office chair. The two industry Goliaths also face competition from an unlikely David: Humanscale. The New York City company — best known for its mouse and keyboard platforms — teamed up with well-known industrial designer Niels Diffrient to create the freedom chair.
<...view full story
|
| |
|
|
|
|
