by admin on October 20, 2011
Jon Otis is featured in M/I/S/C/ magazine, a quarterly print and online publication integrating business innovation, design thinking, and global culture. The Design of Customer Experience Design, authored by Jon, appears in The Customer Experience Issue (Fall 2011).
“While everything we do, everything we see and everything we encounter technically provides us with an experience, there is a critical distinction between the majority of these experiences and those that are memorable and therefore worth a detailed dialogue. The high-level components that are integral to any experience are knowable and reproducible, which in turn enables them to be designable.”
To read more, download a PDF of The Design of Customer Experience Design.
by admin on October 1, 2011
Object Agency developed promotion cards (above) and teamed up with client, Tandus Flooring, to create the “ground” for this art installation at the Marfa Book Co., Marfa, TX.
In The Figure is Always Ground, artist Charles Mary Kubricht transformed the gallery walls and ceiling with her signature high-contrast perspective forms. Kubricht is known for geometric compositions that disrupt or distort perception of objects and spaces by altering familiar visual cues in a way that invites viewers to question what they see.
As specified by Object Agency, the existing bamboo floor was temporarily covered with modular tiles of Plexus Colour II (Dark Shadow) donated by Tandus Flooring. Plexus Colour II mixes yarn-dyed and solution-dyed fibers (which, notably, are produced from 100% recycled content) to create a three-dimensional texture.
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Charles Mary Kubricht’s work can also be experienced at Manhattan’s High Line park, just minutes away from the Object Agency’s West 25th Street studio.
Friends of the High Line launched the Fall 2001 public art season with Kubricht’s Alive-nesses: Proposal for Adaptation. The installation is painted on park storage containers located on the High Line at the Rail Yards and can be viewed from the northern end of the park near West 30th Street.
by admin on September 15, 2011
Tandus Flooring’s showroom at Chicago’s Merchandise Mart, designed by Object Agency, reopened June 13 for NeoCon 2011. The updated showroom includes a new lighting system, custom-built display platforms, and branded graphics printed on a recycled (and recyclable) aluminum substrate.
Efficient light fixtures reduce energy usage by up to two-thirds and LED bulbs have a use-life of approximately 10 years, saving replacement and labor costs. The display platforms—which also provide convenient storage for carpet samples—are constructed of FSC-certified Douglas Fir plywood.
