5. Design Philosophy
Places user at centre of all product development
• In Sweden the wellbeing of workers has traditionally had much importance placed on it.
• Understands the impact of demographic shifts and the importance of designing products that
include users of all abilities.
• Product development is routed in detailed research
Affordable ergonomics
– Lower cost of well designed ergonomic solutions
– Reduce costs that don’t add to the product
• Logistics
• In sourcing
• Materials
• Economies of scale
Understand range of work styles across the world
6. Design Philosophy
• Minimise environmental impact
– Power consumption
– Logistics
– Packaging
– Efficient production
– Materials
7. Objectives
Create work place furniture that is:
• Responds to changes in the workplace
• Helps the client to evolve their organisation
• Ergonomically viable
• Environmentally sound
More "quality" for personal area. A highly functional workstation on less space.
14. 14
Lamine™ (white)
1. Beech lipping
2. Chip board
3. Water laquer (white)
4. 1 layer of filler
5. White ceramic laquer
6. 2 layers of filler
7. 2 layers of colour (white)
8. ’Egg shell’ finish
15. 15
Amount of CO2 from production
Total (kg CO2/m2)
For production of surface layer
8,3
0,65
0,42
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Laminate Lamine TM Veneer
KgCO2/m2
30. Brief
• Create soft spaces for people to have informal meetings in open plan areas
• Same functionality as meeting room
• Reduced logistic costs
• Do not copy competition!
38. Meeting pod
By adding a 800mm wide panel Meeting pods can be created.
A Series F ‘top hat’ insert would be used to mount a 30” LCD screen, with a
VGA cable running to a surface mounted combined VGA and power outlet.
Power fly lead would continue through Dufalite board to floor box or grommet
below.
The 30mm gaps between upper
sections allow passers-by to see
whether a sofa/pod is occupied. This
solves a very real problem of people
needing to go right up to the pod to see
if its free, and thus disturbing the
people in it!
39.
40. Large pod
Adding a second panel allow for a
larger pod to be created, which would
feature a table. Based on the cube
table this would be hung at one end
from the screen cubicle walls.
Cubicle walls attach to one another
and the sofa sides using some of the
large Pin and Cam assemblies we
have been looking at recently
41. High back
Basic proportions are arround the
Scandinavia sofa, with the upper
panels being added or removed as
required. The outer shell is made from
50mm veneered or Lamine dufalite
board.
Model shown give privacy on a par
with other models on the market, such
as those from Vitra and Klaessons
Wall street
Introduce Kinnarps
Manufacturer of ergonomic work furniture
Family owned since 1943
Largest in Scandinavia, 3rd or 5th in Europe
€300 million turnover
Hi My name is Alex Gifford and I work for Kinnarps in both the UK and in Sweden
I’m an industrial designer and engineer by training and have worked as a designer in the office interiors industry for 11 years, working in interior design, design management and product design.
I’m going to talk to you about Kinnarps design philosophy and give you some examples of how this manifests itself in our products.
OK, so this picture is a bit cheesy, but it does illustrate very well the way we see furniture
Working furniture covers not just office furniture but also education and care.
We see the boundaries between these as being very fluid – E.g.. Office furniture in schools, training furniture in offices, care furniture (i.e.. Cleo) in offices
Office furniture
Places user at centre of all product development
In Sweden the wellbeing of workers has traditionally had much importance placed on it.
Understands the impact of demographic shifts and the importance of designing products that include users of all abilities.
Product development is routed in detailed research
Affordable ergonomics
Lower cost of well designed ergonomic solutions
Reduce costs that don’t add to the product
Logistics
In sourcing
Materials
Economies of scale
Understand range of work styles across the world
Different countries use office space in very different ways
Respond to cultural variations whilst remaining true to principals
I’ve deliberately not spoken about trends in the workplace here as I don’t want to steal Vivian’s thunder…
Product development at Kinnarps take place in The A, R&D team, based predominantly in Kinnarp, Sweden, but with members in other production plants and in other countries – such as the UK.
The team consists of design engineers, materials specialists, market information experts, prototyping technicians and procurement and is pulled together by project managers and project leaders. As well as long term development the team deals with special products live client projects which can be a very useful way of testing ideas
Conceptual design is often done by external designers to keep ideas fresh, but it is also done in house by people such as me.
Three types of design engineer – specialising in wood, metal and upholstery based in their respective factories
Wide range of colours
Convienient to fabricate
Made from Phenol….
Hard surface on outside
Use dufalite to reduce weight
Modular so shipping is efficent
Modular so that it can be added to in the future
Use acoustic materials to increase performance
It should be possible to see if anyone is inside – so that they aren’t disturbed