The Insidesource zine is our first original content publication dedicated to showcasing the many facets of our creative community. The inaugural issue explores questions that impact the industry, profiles industrial designer Brian Graham and highlights up-and-coming makers from around the globe. A labor of love, the zine was crafted and curated in-house and printed on recycled newsprint as a nod to both past and future. If you’d like to receive the printed version, please email brand@insidesource.com, or, take a quick peek inside our online version, then download the entire digital pub here:
Issue One
The Insidesource zine is our first original content publication dedicated to showcasing the many facets of our creative community. The inaugural issue explores questions that impact the industry, profiles industrial designer Brian Graham and highlights up-and-coming makers from around the globe. A labor of love, the zine was crafted and curated in-house and printed on recycled newsprint as a nod to both past and future. If you’d like to receive the printed version, please email brand@insidesource.com, or, take a quick peek inside our online version, then download the entire digital pub here:
Brian and Nancy have been in the interiors business for 30 years and married for 27, with a common design education that eventually morphed, sending them down two different yet intersecting paths. While Nancy’s expertise lies in both interiors and business, Brian went directly from interior design to furniture design, working with upwards of 18 furniture manufacturers. Brian describes Nancy as knowing a lot more about “practical things, applications and distributions.” Much like the Graham studio, their dynamic is juxtaposed and balanced — grounded and organized while beaming with creative energy.
Brian and Nancy have been in the interiors business for 30 years and married for 27, with a common design education that eventually morphed, sending them down two different yet intersecting paths. While Nancy’s expertise lies in both interiors and business, Brian went directly from interior design to furniture design, working with upwards of 18 furniture manufacturers. Brian describes Nancy as knowing a lot more about “practical things, applications and distributions.” Much like the Graham studio, their dynamic is juxtaposed and balanced — grounded and organized while beaming with creative energy.
Usability & Aesthetics
How do we find that balance between aesthetics and the prime concern of usability? Seating needs to be ergonomic and furniture stress tested, as employees are challenging their structure at work even more than in residential use.
Obsolescence
As we move forward with four generations in the workplace, frequent technological updates, and an equally as volatile set of interior trends, companies are facing a new set of challenges in obtaining furniture that will last.
Sustainability
More advocacy is needed in sustainability in commercial furniture. There is vast opportunity in the way of furniture donation, for example, that could abate the wasteful process of transporting and dumping product into landfills.
Craft & Workmanship
How much are end users willing to pay for workmanship when we have cheaper, easy access solutions like IKEA?“ The answer is you need to tell the story of how the furniture was made” says Brian Graham.
Usability & Aesthetics
How do we find that balance between aesthetics and the prime concern of usability? Seating needs to be ergonomic and furniture stress tested, as employees are challenging their structure at work even more than in residential use.
Obsolescence
As we move forward with four generations in the workplace, frequent technological updates, and an equally as volatile set of interior trends, companies are facing a new set of challenges in obtaining furniture that will last.
Sustainability
More advocacy is needed in sustainability in commercial furniture. There is vast opportunity in the way of furniture donation, for example, that could abate the wasteful process of transporting and dumping product into landfills.
Craft & Workmanship
How much are end users willing to pay for workmanship when we have cheaper, easy access solutions like IKEA?“ The answer is you need to tell the story of how the furniture was made” says Brian Graham.
Part of our commitment at Insidesource is connecting to the greater creative community, and NEW PEOPLE allows us to dive into the beautiful, fun, happening and sometimes wonderfully weird world of the arts across the globe. For this issue we’ve featured artists from each of our Insidesource locations in the Bay Area, Seattle, New York and London.
Featured Artists
Ines Suarez de Puga | @inessuarezdepuga| Ceramicist | London Alyssa Block | @alyssa.block | Artist & Product Designer | CA Liam Hopkins | @liam.hopkins | Illustrator | CA
Part of our commitment at Insidesource is connecting to the greater creative community, and NEW PEOPLE allows us to dive into the beautiful, fun, happening and sometimes wonderfully weird world of the arts across the globe. For this issue we’ve featured artists from each of our Insidesource locations in the Bay Area, Seattle, New York and London.
Featured Artists:
Ines Suarez de Puga | @inessuarezdepuga| Ceramicist | Camberwell, London Alyssa Block | @alyssa.block | Artist & Product Designer | Bay Area, CA Liam Hopkins | @liam.hopkins | Illustrator | Los Angeles, CA
Planning and development for Pinterest’s custom banquettes spanned over a year, cycling through two design revisions and four mock-ups.
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