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Designing with Anticipation: Eames and The Guest Host Relationship
Among the friends to take part in the tea cermony hosted by the Eameses were sculptor Isamu Noguchi (far left) and actor Charlie Chaplin (fifth from the left). Charles and Ray Eames felt, “The role of...
View ArticleHerman Miller and Magis: Designer Konstantin Grcic
The work of Konstantin Grcic is known for its logical thought process, honesty of materials, and respect for production methods. His partnership with Magis led to one of the most interesting and...
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Get Up, Get Healthy: Standing and Sitting by Design
A “new” trend is emerging among workers in Silicon Valley: the standing desk. We know sitting all day is not ideal for the human body. The low physical workload and rearward rotated pelvis puts you at...
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Collaborating Often Takes Just Two
You know the old saying that two heads are better than one.. But it may be that only two heads are better for collaborating. Recently, we conducted research at our Design Yard facility, which was...
View ArticleWhat Do Backpacks Say About Design?
Herman Miller designs a lot of furniture on campus. Seeing what students carry around helps us do it better. So, recently we asked them to send us pictures of the contents of their backpacks....
View ArticleHerman Miller and Magis: Designer Jasper Morrison
One of today’s most influential industrial designers, Jasper Morrison is known for his minimalist approach. Throughout his prolific career, he has strived to create simple but functional beauty in...
View ArticleArt on Art: an Eames Expression
Dared to create art on art, local Austin artists and designers turned the smooth, white surface of an Eames molded plastic chair into the medium for their expression. Some turned to Mondrian for...
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Walking the Talk: Problem-Solving Design
It’s one thing to talk about solving problems; it’s another to make it a tenet of good design. That’s what we strive to do, and Fast Company recently placed us on its list of Thirty Companies That Get...
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Good Stewards: Taking Celle Apart
“We will be a good steward of the environment,” was the promise made by Herman Miller founder, D.J. De Pree, in 1953. Living up to this sometimes means investing time and money into solving a problem...
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ArtPrize: Art is in the Air
Art is in the air—quite literally some hanging off buildings—as ArtPrize takes over downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan. For over two weeks, 1,713 artists from around the world transform the city into a...
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Good Stewards: Setu’s Not-So-Secret Secret
In 1953, Herman Miller founder D.J. De Pree promised, “We will be good stewards of the environment.” That promise drives the design and innovation of our products today. Setu’s Kinematic Spine, for...
View ArticleA Better World by Design
We aim to improve the human experience wherever people work, heal, learn, and live. Problem-solving design and “being a good steward” are just two ways we do this. We also set goals for our business...
View ArticleHerman Miller and Mattiazzi: Designer Nitzan Cohen
Nitzan Cohen loves furniture, especially chairs. “They relate most to the body; there is a constant relationship to people, and there really are no boundaries when designing it,” he says. After years...
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Innovation Inspired By Nature
What do a high-speed train and a nanotechnology textile finish have in common? They were inspired by Mother Nature’s 3.8 billion years of research and development. Increasingly, designers and...
View ArticleHerman Miller and Mattiazzi: Partnering with Design
Mattiazzi believes in the power of building close partnerships with leading designers. First with the He Said/She Said chair by Nitzan Cohen in 2009, and then successfully followed by the Branca chair...
View ArticleYellowstone: Making Good on a 1953 Promise
Our 1953 promise to “be a good steward of the environment” put Herman Miller on a path toward helping Yellowstone Park. As the first national park, Yellowstone is often referred to as “America’s best...
View ArticleEngage and Inspire: Designing a Healthcare Experience
The paint has dried and the doors have opened on a new Herman Miller Healthcare Customer Experience Center that engages and inspires. To engage visitors, we designed plenty of hands-on experiences. We...
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Whose Job Is It To Be Green?
This guy wasn’t pondering this question back in 1930. (It wasn’t long after that we were.) Today, more people like him are not only thinking about being green, they’re making their living doing green...
View ArticleHerman Miller and Magis: Designer Naoto Fukasawa
Designer Naoto Fukasawa believes that designers, “don’t think to design the ‘ordinary.’” Normal is too boring. His approach to design is to not overthink an idea, because when we do, “our actions...
View ArticleForty-five Years of California Design: Where to Begin?
Where do you begin celebrating 45 years of California art and design? With 60 museums and 70 galleries, to be exact. Pacific Standard Time, believed to be the largest museum collaboration ever, will...
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Working Together for a Better World: Herman Miller Joins with Mass Design Group
The Butaro Hospital in Rwanda, designed and built by MASS Design Group in partnership with Partners in Health. People around the world have truly become neighbors in a global hometown, and we at Herman...
View ArticleMagis Spun: Fun by Design
Design is so busy solving problems that we sometimes forget that it’s OK to have fun with it. That certainly isn’t the case with Spun, a design whose sole purpose seems to be bringing smiles to the...
View ArticleHerman Miller and Magis: Designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
For designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, “creativity does not come from a rational point of view but an emotional one. Design is about finding a certain balance or character when you are looking for...
View ArticleLabor Produces Beauty
“If we think about architecture as simply beautiful objects,” says Michael Murphy, founding partner of Mass Design Group, “then we fail to talk about the process which creates those objects. It’s...
View ArticleStockings Galore at the Design Yard
The lords are leaping and the maids are milking, but who’s been making all these stockings? For the fifth year, holiday stockings hung along the corridors of the Herman Miller Design Yard and...
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Looking Back at 2011: Funny How Design Affects the Spirit
Dear Ms. DiOrio, Thank you for your letter of praise for what the office cubicle means to you. I presume you thought your “open letter to people or entities who are unlikely to respond” would be lost...
View ArticleLooking Back at 2011:Herman Miller and Magis—“More Than”
The meaning of Magis—”more than”—captures the Italian company’s approach to design and manufacturing. “We add to Herman Miller because we are complementare, complementary,” explains Alberto Perazza,...
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Eye Delight: 2011
For the northern hemisphere, December 22 marks the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year and the first day of winter. Photo: Jahi Chikwendiu More than 200,000 hand-painted blubs light a...
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Design Writing
George Nelson, designer and Design Director for Herman Miller from 1946 to 1972, has written that “every design in some sense is a social communication.” So what is design saying? Nelson spent a good...
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Designing Healing Spaces
Pitt County Memorial Hospital Chapel, a LS3P project. Photo: Mark Herboth Just like any good design, the best examples of healthcare architecture are human-centered and problem solving. Marc Marchant,...
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