Actiu, a company we have been collaborating with for years, designing products such has the German Design Award winner TNK Flex, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. And they have started celebrating this milestone with a three day event in which Actiu has revisited its history and also looked into the the future.

Offices are much more than workplaces. They are spaces where we live and carry out our tasks, and it is therefore important for us to feel good, for the surroundings to be warm and comfortable, to enable people to roll out all their creativity and efficiency.

In this respect, one of the fastest growing trends in the workplace is that of the biophilic office, which sets out to bring nature into work environments, a factor that improves the state of mind and wellbeing of users and, as a consequence, also raises their productivity.

Our multi-purpose and versatile chair, capable of being adapted to all kinds of spaces and fully customisable, has become very successful in the USA where it has been renamed Gnosi by Sedia System.

Gnosi, in its version aimed at the field of education, is receiving a great deal of attention in the specialised press in the USA.

At Alegre Design we have been committed to education for a decade. Specifically, to the training of students of the Master’s Degree in Industrial Design at the Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera.

This year, within the syllabus of the subject Industrial Product Technology, we have devised a different proposal for the students: the project “The connected suitcase”.

STAY, our customizable high-quality office chair for Actiu, is the star in this new video, which shows its user-friendliness and its chameleon-like adaptability to any working environment.

The innovative design of the back offers a great deal of freedom of movement.

Our Flow lamp, inspired by the silhouette of a flower and designed for FARO, has been presented in the Light + Building trade fair in Frankfurt (Germany), that showcases products, solutions and services focused on illumination, electrotechnics and automation for all kinds of buildings.

Our chair TNK Flex has received one of the most prestigious awards in the design field, the German Design Award, which is granted to projects that “truly represent pioneering contributions to the German and international design landscape,” according to the organisation.

Industrial design is not indifferent no trends when it comes to color. Our Italian collaborator, Eleonora Saiz, has shared her insight about which are the colors of the moment, those that are being used in industrial design by many professionals. Here are the most popular now.

We will share our knowledge on 29 November at a roundtable focussing on Spanish design, organised at the Spanish Embassy in Tokyo by ICEX Expaña Exportación Inversiones.

The concept of Smart Furniture was the key topic of a round table organised by Actiu at the Hábitat Valencia Trade Fair, at which we participated, together with other industrial designers, to debate on the future of furniture and the competitive opportunities that are opening up in the office segment.