Nature, Nurture and Legacy Spaces: The Problem with Design

So, unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ve seen hundreds of posts about remote work, video conferencing and collaboration in the last few days. The craziness of today’s events has forced companies to adopt video conferencing and remote collaboration solutions on a scale that we haven’t seen. Some think that this bodes well for the […]

Nature, Nurture and Legacy Spaces: The Problem with Design

The User Interface — It’s Not Business, It’s Personal

If you’re a movie fan, you’re well aware of the ongoing conflict often portrayed between humans and machines in a dystopian future. Think “West World,” “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Terminator,” “I, Robot” and “The Matrix.” I can’t help but wonder if these movies are so popular because they reflect our own personal experiences of the […]

The User Interface — It’s Not Business, It’s Personal

Five Questions Every Integrator Should Be Asking

For those of you who don’t know me well, I am pretty active in networking with other AV professionals, technology managers, designers, content producers, etc  If there is one thing most of them agree on, it’s that doing a proper needs analysis is the only way to assure that our systems meet all of our […]

Five Questions Every Integrator Should Be Asking

The Corporate Campus

A few weeks ago, I sat in on a meeting with the head of global real estate for an innovative company here in California. He was amazingly generous in sharing his strategy on how he approached developing properties for his company, and I took three pages of notes over that 20 minute period. I think […]

The Corporate Campus

The Evolution of Technology Spaces

Evolving how we understand and design collaborative spaces One of the most consistent things we see in corporate facilities/classrooms/lecture halls worldwide is that they have been equipped with some manner of technology package that is there for the users of that space to better communicate with others. And one of the most consistent things about […]

The Evolution of Technology Spaces

Collision Course

In the last month, I’ve had the opportunity to listen and learn a lot about the modern workplace and the principles behind its design. The philosophy goes well beyond the phrase “open” and really capitalizes on the idea of activity based working and creating spaces that allow for independent work, team collaboration, large team meetings, […]

Collision Course

Human Centered Design

I recently attended a conference about service management and ITIL. I went expecting to learn a lot about processes, procedures and rules for providing value for a company and I did learn quite a bit about that in the sessions I attended. However, one session in particular stood out to me above all the others, […]

Human Centered Design

The Role Of the AV Integrator in Huddle Space Design

Crystal clear audiovisual. Effective acoustics. Perfect lighting. Comfortable and functional furniture. These are the key ingredients of the experiential huddle space design that creates truly memorable experiences and makes participants eager to return and use the space again. What Is Experiential Design? Millennials are likely the group to thank for inspiring the huddle room. They […]

The Role Of the AV Integrator in Huddle Space Design

The Key Phases in AVL Design – Part 3

In Part 1 of our AVL Design series, we listed and summarized the key players in AVL design. Then in Part 2, we shared about the key tools that those key players may interact with and use. For Part 3, we will move forward to discuss the important phases of the design process. Let’s begin […]

The Key Phases in AVL Design – Part 3

Salamander Rack Designs Aim to Give AV Integrators More Aesthetic Choices

Salamander Designs announced its entry into ProAV by saying, “racks don’t have to be unattractive.” Its new line of Deep Profile Cabinets, full-blown technical rack solutions that look like furniture is aimed to help meeting rooms AV storage. It’s real furniture, and it includes the look, feel, finish and exceptional quality of Salamander Designs furniture, […]

Salamander Rack Designs Aim to Give AV Integrators More Aesthetic Choices

Aesthetics, Part the First — Minimalism and the Tyranny of the Black Rectangle

The past centuries have spanned many technological eras, each with a dominant aesthetic as well as dominant technologies. The Victorian era was the age of steam, of the first attempts to harness electricity. It was also an era of brass, polished wood, colored glass. It was an era in which a technical marvel was also […]

Aesthetics, Part the First — Minimalism and the Tyranny of the Black Rectangle

Onward — Towards the Future!

I’ll open with a personal note: This marks the 200th published post on this blog! Over the past years we’ve talked about commercial AV, speculative fiction, and even enjoyed some original writing. I’d like to thank all of you for joining me on this journey, and hope to continue to share my words with you […]

Onward — Towards the Future!