Innovation: A Visit with the Chair Man

(Innovation, Summer 2006) By Bruce Sterling

Niels Diffrient and his Helvetica mailbox are in rural Ridgefield, CT, a time-honored Yankee hamlet. Diffrient escaped the roar of New York corporate life to work in his self-designed atelier. Since that time, he tells me ruefully, New York has followed him: quiet Ridgefield is a Big Apple commute, these days.



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Palm supports (unfortunately referred to by many as “wrist rests”) should be exclusively used to rest palms between periods of typing. If you rest your wrists on these supports, particularly while typing, you increase your risk for injury.


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