Expansion is on the minds of the folks at National Office Systems (NOS), the nation’s leading provider of storage and information management systems, https://nosstorage.com.
NOS announces relocation of its national headquarters to Beltsville, Maryland, effective immediately. The new location at 6804 Virginia Manor Road nearly doubles the firm’s storage and administrative space and allows for anticipated growth in the company’s staff.
The Beltsville location eases the ability of American Installation Services (AIS), its division specializing in high density and mobile shelving, office furniture and glass/demountable walls, to receive and deliver products in the Baltimore-Washington corridor. NOS Principal Joe Alvarez says, “We’re close to I-95, the ICC, the BW Parkway allowing our installers, equipment, trucks and sales teams to reach clients more quickly. Combined with the nearby Metro and MARC stations, commuting for our employees has become easier, too.”
Read more about it here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160803005537/en/National-Office-Systems-Announces-Relocation-of-Headquarters
Last year’s post about fashion designers’ work spaces was a reader favorite; this year, a new book examines the topic in depth.
From conservative to outrageous, fashion designers incorporate whatever materials work best for their unique wearable designs. That same approach carries over into the design of their workspace, according to IA Interior Architects’ director of design John Capobianco.
Like many other professionals, fashion designers find that a mixture of private space and collaborative areas works best for them. Unlike some other businesses, however, fashion designers have a need to store objects that are irregular-shaped and bulky. For this, they turn to high-density storage systems with adjustable shelving, accommodating everything from boots to blouses.
Designers also need transformable modular storage that can display dresses one day and shoes the next. As Capobianco puts it in a recent blog post, “It has to be much more user customizable, where you don’t have to hire someone to facilitate the transition.” And when the designs go into production, designers use RFID to track the source materials and finished products, and create databases for their catalogues.
When it comes to practical storage solutions, these wildly imaginative fashion designers have a surprisingly down-to-earth point of view. As with their clothing designs, they find the right storage solutions for their needs and, in the words of fashion icon Tim Gunn, they “make it work.”
2016 update: If you want to see how they make it work, writer/photographer Todd Selby’s newly published book, “The Creative Selby,” explores the interaction of creativity and work environment. This third installment in Selby’s acclaimed series is filled with photos of fashion designers’ work spaces, along with commentary hand-written by the designers themselves.
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