Herman Miller, Inc., has launched a new program that enables customers of its award-winning Resolve office system to personally choose or create digitally printed designs for their system components including boundary screens, rolling screens, flags, and canopies. Design on Textile (DOT), enables companies to effectively and economically integrate corporate identity, product branding, or other informational or decorative images into their Resolve work environments.
"Herman Miller is giving designers an opportunity offered by no other furniture manufacturer today to tap their creativity and provide customers with a new level of visual content in the workplace," said Gary Ottenjan, new business development manager for Herman Miller, in making the announcement.
The DOT program offers customers the choice of either selecting images from an expanding range of designer collections assembled by Herman Miller, or creating their own custom graphics for digital printing on Resolve components.
The existing collections include images prepared by such respected designers as Jhane Barnes, Eric Ludlum, Joyce Mast, and the Digital Atelier, as well as a select group of Herman Miller designers. The collections feature a range of design ideas and image styles from which to choose, including natural, graphic, abstract, and photographic. The designs can be used individually or mixed and matched to create unique combinations and visual effects. "Customers will enjoy the advantage of quickly selecting and incorporating designs or images they like into their Resolve environment," Ottenjan explained.
The second choice, dubbed Customers' Own Image (COI), gives designers and customers the freedom to prepare unique visual treatments including corporate logos, product branding, slogans, pattern designs, and colors. Resolve screens or flags can also be used to identify departments and assist in way-finding through a company's corridors and open spaces. "COI provides the open-ended capability for inspired designers to create exactly what the customer wants conveyed in the work environment, with virtually limitless potential for the exercise of their own graphic design abilities," said Ottenjan.
In order to ensure the designs will perform in the workspace as envisioned, customers who select COI will work with a designer to create electronic image files and apply the images to Resolve products. Herman Miller will provide the proprietary support tools that assist in the design and visualization of a Resolve workspace with any DOT images.
Regardless of the DOT choices made, the Resolve customer has the ability to dramatically alter the look and feel of the workspace quickly, easily, and economically by changing or relocating screens. And because the Resolve screens are translucent, the DOT images change their appearance when viewed in varying light and from different perspectives, to provide an ever changing and positive visual stimulus in the workplace.
Herman Miller will include examples of Design on Textile in its Chicago showroom during NeoCon, North America's largest exposition of commercial furnishings and design. The show takes place June 18-20, 2001, at Chicago's Merchandise Mart.
Herman Miller's critically acclaimed Resolve office system is designed to meet the needs of individual workers while supporting organizational information and the communication of identity. Resolve also accommodates easy changes in configuration and technology.
"This capability opens up entirely new dimensions in workplace design," explained Gary Ottenjan, and it gives the Architecture and Design (A & D) community and their client companies a new way to convey image, culture, and identity."
Herman Miller creates great places to work by researching, designing, manufacturing and distributing innovative interior furnishings that support companies, organizations and individuals all over the world. The company's award-winning products, complemented by primary furniture-management services, generated over $2 billion in revenue during calendar 2000. Herman Miller is widely recognized both for its innovative products and business practices, including the use of industry-leading, customer-focused technology. The company trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol MLHR.
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