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Herman Miller’s Got Tops. PV360 and SolidWorks Could Have Helped.

11 Nov, 2009 by Josh Mings in DESIGN
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Don’t you just love tops. I’ve always liked them. They just make you feel like stripping out the carpet, painting yourself red and spinning as many as you can right before the in-laws walk into the room.

That, however, has nothing to do with the design and inspiration behind the Herman Miller Select series of Tops. These are totally designer grade. Created by KleinReid with inspiration from the good ol’ Eames duo. We got the story on how it was done. Then took the tops and did’em up in SolidWorks with a little rendering in PV360 and modo.

Here’s whatcha love…

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Delicious Design Process: The Herman Miller Setu Chair from Studio 7.5

14 Oct, 2009 by Josh Mings in DESIGN

If there’s anything that cramps your daring sense of style, and your flaring lower back muscles it’s an inadequate office chair with absolutely hideous lines and a crushing lack of support.

To counter those effects, Herman Miller has launched another stylish chair. The Setu.

If you recall the Embody chair, you’ll know a lot went into the design. While the Setu comes in at less than half the price of the Embody, the amount of detailed ergonomic testing was no less. The team behind the design? Berlin-based Studio 7.5.

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The Herman Miller Embody Chair. Yeah For Blood Flow!

08 Oct, 2008 by Josh Mings in DESIGN

herman miller embody designIt’s not everyday you get to sit for hours on end, as your body slowly atrophies… ok, well, maybe it is everyday, but this new chair from Herman Miller may turn your hardening arteries into pliable conduits of efficient blood flow to get that oxygen back up to your brain case.

The Embody chair, with all of it’s flexors, knobs and adjustments, was designed by the late Bill Stumpf of Aeron Chair fame and taken through multiple iterations by his associate, Jeff Weber after Stumpf’s death in 2006.

Images and more after the break.
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