ROBO Chosen for the ADI Design Index 2011

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The OFFECCT chair ROBO by Luca Nichetto has been selected for the ADI (Associazione per il Disegno Industriale) design index 2011. The book of all designs selected for the index was presented yesterday November 30 2011.

The inclusion of ROBO in the index means that next year ROBO will have the chance to [...]

Considerate Design and a Green List for Sustainable Procurement

In an earlier blog post we told you about the event “Mod, makt, glädje” – Swedish for “Courage, Power and Joy,” where OFFECCT’s Design Manager Anders Englund gave a speech about OFFECCT’s sustainable design philosophy.

OFFECCT’s sustainable work started back in 1993, and we think it’s great that sustainability is getting more and more attention in [...]

Courage, Power and Joy - Anders Englund on OFFECCT's Sustainable Design Philosophy

OFFECCT’s Design Manager Anders Englund participates at an event named “Mod, makt, glädje” – Swedish for “Courage, Power and Joy”. The event takes place at the Gothenburg Opera, and is arranged by the Region of Västra Götaland  to discuss how the government and the industry can cooperate in order to create an innovative [...]

Amazonas on display at the Väner Museum

On Sunday, November 14, the Väner Museum in Lidköping, Sweden, inaugurates its new exhibition “In Green Form” (sv. I grön form). The exhibition will feature art glass, fashion, furniture and lighting – all from a sustainable perspective. The ambition is to combine design and sustainable development is an exciting combination. Through the exhibition the Väner [...]

OFFECCT Creates SOUNDWAVEs in France

Not only has OFFECCT been awarded with a prestigious Parisian design award, as mentioned in an earlier blog post about this year’s Designer’s Days in Paris.

Now French design portal deco.fr has published an appreciative article about our SOUNDWAVE® acoustic panels.

deco.fr describes our panels as “acoustic and environmentally conscious, simple to install and very decorative. [---] [...]

Our Parisian Love Affair: FLY Awarded at Designer's Days

Just back from Paris we are proud to report from Designer’s Days in Paris, where OFFECCT and French designer Patrick Norguet recieved the Entreprise Designer award for our FLY chair.

Designer’s Days is celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2010. For the past ten years, Designer’s Days has become a summer rendez-vous attended by designers, architects, interior [...]

4, 3, 2, 1, We Have a Lift-off - the Fly Chair by Patrick Norguet

This spring we are proud to announce the Fly chair by French designer Patrick Norguet. Our design team worked together with Patrick for no less than four years in order to define a proper product technology to create a technical textile with minimal environmental impact. Very little energy is used to make the fabric ensuring [...]

Sustainable Design #2: The Amazonas is Saving the Amazon

Amazonas by Eero Koivisto

In a previous post we presented how we achieve sustainable design throgh the Nordic eco label; the Swan. One of our Swan labeled products is the Amazonas table, designed by Eero Koivisto. The Amazonas table series originated when Koivisto saw aerial photographs of the rain forest where the tree crowns created kind [...]

Sustainable Design #1: The Swan – a Nordic Eco Label

We believe that there are two aspects of sustainable design, and both are equally important. Firstly, we make innovative and contemporary design that should stand the test of time. We aim at producing sustainable high quality products that are contemporary and timeless at the same time. Secondly, we have a strong environmental commitment, where we [...]