At Milder Office we believe that a collaborative process yields better results for our clients. We provided space planning support to Ideas on Purposes, responding to their designers needs and workflows. The resulting layout included private offices, a reference library, conference room, and open work area for the graphic designers. We have worked with IOP over the past decade, re-configuring and modifying the workstations as needed to accommodate a growing staff.
Modern and elegant, the Milder C onference Tables are available with rectangular, boat shaped, and cantilevered tops, in sizes from 92″-120″ long. We will work with you to accommodate your preferred media/technology hardware. Our large conference tables can accommodate up to 12 people.
Displaying featured books and publications is a key component of engaging library users. The Milder Furniture system offers displays in a variety of formats and sizes, including single, double and four sided carousels. Angled shelves include an aluminum lip and can lifted to reveal additional storage (cubby). Customization is our strength. Units can be sized based on the materials you need to display. Two sided display with angled shelf
Four sided book carousel
Large two sided book display
Custom display with tiered shelves brochures and periodicals
Custom display offers teared shelves for brochures and periodicals
Client: NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Architect: Beyer Blinder Belle
The Game Innovation Lab, part of the Center of Innovation for Technology and Entertainment Center (CITE), accommodates classroom learning, research, and gathering areas designed for maximum flexibility and mobility in a tight physical envelope. To quote CITE, “The Game Innovation Lab is an exciting, dynamic and flexible space for research and learning that takes games as an innovation challenge.”
The space is used both as a classroom and as a student laboratory, and the furniture is regularly reconfigured to support both functions. When workshops are conducted, the tables are placed in pairs for small team work, while the standard the classroom setup has all the tables ganged together as a single block. The Mobile Storage Partitions are assigned to individual graduate students and offer lockable storage, hangers, and whiteboard on both sides to support their project work.
Side tables are the perfect accompaniment for any lounge or seating area and are available in a variety of sizes and shapes; the tables are 12″ to 24″ tall. Casters are optional. Side tables may include interior panels to form compartments (cubbies).
Tops from 3/4” birch plywood.
Choice of transparent film, UV lacquer finish, HPL, or FORBO desktop linoleum overlays.
Legs from 1 1/16” Ø aluminum, brushed and anodized finish.
On levelers or casters.
Wall mounted lockers have never been so attractive. This simple and effective design is well suited for schools, sport facilities, or the office – anywhere your clients need secure storage options. Locker sizes and grid configuration can be adjusted based on your site conditions. Key and combination locks available. Lockers options include shelves and hooks. Shown here are short term lockers with quick release coin/lock mechanism, and perforated front panel for content viewing.
Work styles differ. We will work with you to specify furniture that responds to those needs. In the case of the All Ages video editing stations, the client wanted to include built in a monitor stand, and a double top desktop for easy paper storage and power management. We also offer keyboard trays, monitor arms, wire cutout and casters.
The film-finished birch plywood is available in variety of colors including yellow (seen here), red, blue, dark brown, gray, and clear (natural birch). Laminate options are also available.
This project addressed the need of Campbell’s Global Design Center to re-think their physical office environment in connection with the assessment and pending re-organization of the way projects are managed and work flows through the office. Over a period of nine weeks (two days per week) our team applied design research and produced design interventions and collaborative forums with CGDC staff. The design team established a dialog with and within the CGDC team, that eventually produced a number of ‘design-orienting scenarios’. Working hand-in-hand with our partners, we are able to tackle their most complex organizational and operational challenges.
This project addressed the need of Campbell’s Global Design Center, a group of about 18 Art Directors, designers and administrative staff, to re-think their physical office environment in connection with the assessment and pending re-organization of the way projects are managed and work flows through the office.
As we partner with organizations, we’re developing a design culture where one didn’t exist before. Bringing it to life in a practical way, within the everyday context of society. Arming our partners with the design and thought processes to approach things a little differently. And making a lasting impression on the way they operate.
Through detailed but informal interview sessions, our team got to know the employees at Campbell’s. This was a crucial step in rethinking their workspace because it provided us with valuable information on how they moved through the different areas and what spoke to them most and least about the existing space.
After completing the interview process, several interventions were installed throughout the office as a means of visualizing and sharing some of the data gathered. Using humor and a light touch ‘thought bubbles’ of statements from the interviews were hung above the cubicles encouraging conversations and a sharing of ideas amongst the staff.
Part of the interview process focused on each employees’ daily tasks and habits, and how they navigated through the office space.
The Milder Team created a striking visual of the ‘everyday path’ information collected from staff during the mapping exercise, using colored tape to display work flows and patterns, and reflecting on how this might inform a new floor layout for the various teams.
Many of the participants expressed feeling a lack of connection while working in their cubicles. To reflect this disconnect (visual and physical), we hung silver mylar balloons between the cubicles that, much like a convex mirror, allowed the staff to see into adjoining cubicles.
Another design intervention invited participants to climb a step stool thereby providing a different view by which to contemplate their office landscape and reflect the effect on group dynamics and workflows.
Developing a shared understanding with the CGDC team was key in helping them to imagine and anticipate not only a better workspace, but a way of working more collaboratively.
The workshop concluded with a presentation of design orienting scenarios based on response to the participatory development session. These scenarios reflected the ideas The new CGDC space and successful reorganization serve now as a model for future office planning and reorganization projects at Campbell’s.
The Corner Workstation is well suited to maximize space in individual office layouts. Corner workstations provide two distinct work surfaces, and can be outfitted with one or two pedestals. The stations can be further customized by adding pin surfaces, open and closed overhead compartments, a return, wire cut-outs, power and data solutions, and integrated keyboard trays.
All panels in 3/4” birch plywood.
Choice of transparent film or UV lacquer finishes, HPL or FORBO desktop linoleum overlays.
Vertical supports in 1 1/6ӯ aluminum tubing.
On 4ӯ casters or levelers.
An attractive solution for all your filing needs, File Storage units can be specified up to 4 levels high, in file or lateral configurations. Upper storage compartments can be added as open storage or accessorized with doors. Doors may be specified for entire units or for selected compartments. Tall units can serve as partitions and room dividers, and can be assembled so that they are accessible from both sides.
