OFFECCT Voices:

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OFFECCT Voices: is a documentary book giving an insight into the OFFECCT history. People both from within and outside of the company give captivating accounts of how our little company grew into becoming a significant actor on the international market. It also gives an insight into contemporary design and industrial history.

OFFECCT Voices

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OFFECCT in the Future Domestic Space

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Future increased migration to cities combined with population growth will inevitably result in the need to optimize our use of the space around us. The eight finalists of Swedish Electrolux’s competition design lab 2010 have showed how this can be done with interesting and innovative solutions.

Lichen Guo from China has designed the “Dismount [...]

Svensson, Svensson Starring SOUNDWAVE Geo

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Tomorrow a new Swedish feature film will premiere. It’s called “Svensson, Svensson – i nöd och lust”, and it’s originally a Swedish sitcom.

In “Svensson, Svensson – i nöd och lust” OFFECCT’s acoustic panel “SOUNDWAVE Geo” stars as supporting actor:

Svensson, Svensson starring SOUNDWAVE Geo, Allan Svensson and Peter Dalle

From Wikipedia:

“Svensson, Svensson is [...]

OFFECCT Designer: Ineke Hans

OFFECCT Designer :: Ineke Hans

#Design / The intention of Ineke Hans (born 1966) is that her products shall work in the life we live today. New technology and new materials is of importance in the designs of Ineke Hans, often you can also find a trace of poetry in her work. She could be [...]

Report from Kulturhaupstadt Europas - OFFECCT at the Red Dot Design Award Ceremony

OFFECCT’s Design Manager Anders Englund and designer Patrick Norguet travelled to Essen, Germany on 5 July 2010, in order to take part in the awards presentation of the “red dot award: product design,” one of the largest and major international design competitions.

Red Dot Design Award 2010

Fly Chair by Patrick Norguet

Geo Soundwave by [...]

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. [---] [...]

Ineke Hans Creating SOUNDWAVES® and a Red Dot

In an earlier post we told you about the fact that our Geo SOUNDWAVE® by Ineke Hans has received the Red Dot Design Award.

Geo is the latest addition to our series of SOUNDWAVE® acoustic panels. OFFECCT has been working with sound absorbing materials for a long time, and was the first furniture company to launch designed [...]

Fly and Geo Connecting the Red Dots: Design as an Investment and Driving Force for Growth and Value Creation

Patrick Norguet’s Fly chair, and the acoustic panel Soundwave Geo designed by Ineke Hans has been chosen by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen to receive the Red Dot Design Award for 2010. Norguet’s Fly chair has been presented in an earlier blog post, and we will soon tell you more about Soundwave Geo.

Fly Chair [...]

Ci vediamo a Milano - Five Days Left to the Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2010

Next Wednesday on April 14, the 2010 edition of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan opens its doors. Last year this Milanese institution gathered over 300,000 visitors, and it looks like this year’s event will attract an even wider audience.

OFFECCT at Milan Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2010

The Salone Internazionale del Mobile is an [...]