New Designers returned to Islington’s Business Design Centre in July, to present a wealth of work from students of the creative arts and established design practitioners. With a strong complement of furniture on display, the four-day second phase – which also presented graduate work from areas as varied as the automotive products and illustration – affirmed the creative vision and skill of the next generation of designers looking to enter the industry, reports Paul Farley … New Designers is unlike the bulk of trade shows attended by Furniture News – there’s no finished, mass-produced product on display, but visitors instead encounter something between a graduate show and a gallery sale, as over 3000 students ...
The Exchange, a new working, meeting and showroom space in heart of the UK's furniture manufacturing region, will be officially opened on the evening of 17th September. Located in Westend Mill on Long Eaton's Leopold Street (opposite Harrington Mill), The Exchange already serves various functions, acting as the headquarters of trade association the BFM and digital agency Orbital, as well as being a new regional HQ for The Furniture Makers’ Company. It is also a new showroom location for the biannual Long Point exhibition, taking place from 17-19th September. "The Exchange is a hub," says Orbital's director, Matt O'Flynn, "set up for the purpose of providing the indus...
After scanning selected pages of the printed 2014 catalogue with the Ikea catalogue app – available for both iOS and Android – or by browsing the digital document on a smartphone or tablet, the user simply places the printed catalogue in the desired location for the furniture visualisation, and chooses a product from a current range of 90 to see how it will look in their home. The app uses the catalog itself to judge the approximate scale of the furnishings – measuring the size of the catalog itself (laid on the floor) in the camera and creating an augmented reality image of the furnishings so it appears correctly in the room. According to Ikea, making the most of the available space in a home is particularly important in the ...
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The mania of Augmented Reality has taken over the world, with almost every other company in the hardware or manufacturing space too trying it out to make their processes a tad-bit easier. The furniture segment too wasn’t far behind. Imagine visualizing a piece of furniture in your room, even before you have bought it. From placement to coordinating the color, you can see the furniture in your room, thanks to Augmented Reality (AR).And the whole campaign got a bigger boost when one of the world’s largest online retail store IKEA announced its decision to build an AR app with Apple’s ARkit. Given the number of people who visit IKEA stores and spend hours there figuring out the perfect piece of furniture, this app would make the ...
