16 June, 2021
Trend Colours: Designing with Green
In the second of our new colour blog series, we take a look at green: a colour that creates powerful emotions. It’s a bold and diverse palette that offers tonal changes to reflect the seasons.
Carpet Tile
Natalie Makowski 10 June, 2021
Reimagining the Workplace for a Post-COVID World
As we’re all learning to navigate a new normal, laying the grounds for an office where employees feel comfortable starts and ends with safety. It’s about adapting the workplace to solve issues like distancing, wayfinding, acoustics, and sustainability – all while maintaining a sense of style.
Interface 3 June, 2021
Trend Colours: Designing with Terracotta
In the first of our new colour blog series, we take a look at terracotta: a colour that radiates warmth and happiness, combining the energy and stimulation
4 May, 2021
How Interface Aims to Reverse Global Warming – One Carpet Tile at a Time
Often technology-driven brands come to mind when people think of companies pledging to reduce or eliminate their carbon emissions. However, to really have an impact on the gigatons of annual emissions that contribute to global warming, businesses across a variety of industries – not just technology – need to go beyond pursuing carbon neutral and aim to develop carbon negative solutions.
24 March, 2021
Bringing our carbon negative carpet tile to market
In October last year, we achieved an incredible milestone: we launched our first cradle to gate carbon negative carpet tiles in the Americas. I’m proud to share that from today our customers across the Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia (EAAA) region can specify our first carbon negative carpet tile collection, Embodied Beauty™, and our first carbon negative microtuft product, Flash Line.
Nigel Stansfield 24 March, 2021
Why Ikigai is the Design Philosophy We All Need Right Now
Whether organising your way to happiness or embracing hygge, the Danish philosophy of cosy living, it always seems that just when you catch up to a design craze, insiders are already on to the next. So while the ascendance of Ikigai was intriguing, skepticism seemed wise. Ikigai, which translates to “having a purpose” in English, is of Japanese origin, associated with the feeling of self-fulfillment earned by pursuing a meaningful life. Today, it’s being embraced by the creative community.
5 October, 2020
NY+LON Streets Design Inspiration
Our NY+LON Streets collection is inspired by city streets, interconnectivity and familiar industrial architecture.
Mandy Leeming 20 September, 2019
Breathing Life Into Contrasts
With her latest collection, Look Both Ways, Interface VP of Product Design Kari Pei knew she wanted to contribute to spaces where people can function at their best.
19 July, 2019
Sound Advice for Open Office Design
Open offices are here to stay, and so is the open office noise problem. Why is that? A lot of it can be attributed to poor office design.
18 October, 2018
Materials in Design
An Interview with Kari Pei, product designer Louis Kahn famously told his students to interrogate their materials for design inspiration. The modernist architect would phrase this advice as hypothetical dialogue: “You say to a brick, ‘What do you want, brick?’ And brick says to you, ‘I like an arch.’ And you say to brick, ‘Look,…