Last year, the Diffrient Occasional™ Chair - a stackable guest chair designed to compliment Humanscale®'s Liberty®, Diffrient Smart™ and Diffrient World® chairs - debuted at NeoCon 2015 and received a Silver level Best of NeoCon award. The prototype was a success and the office chair is now available in a variety of finish options. Shea+Latone aided Humanscale and
Shea+Latone is excited to introduce one of our latest product design development projects - Müm, a modular seating system that promotes healthy ergonomics through movement. Müm has won the 2016 Best of NeoCon Gold Award in the education systems category. The Müm collection is a product line of "touchdown" or "perch" seating made from common components,
Shea+Latone Inc. is looking for a well-rounded prototype technician / prototyper with the unique skill set required to handle a wide range of fabrication work in a product development shop and test lab. Tasks range from fabrication and finishing of looks-like and works-like prototypes, to building production and testing fixtures. This position requires a wide
Shea+Latone is proud to announce that the latest Humanscale® seating design from the late Niels Diffrient debuted at Neocon and received a Silver level Best of Neocon award. Our long standing relationship with both Humanscale and Niels Diffrient Design allowed us to aid in the design, prototyping, engineering development, BIFMA testing, and pre-production of the
Come out to Booth 469 at the Design 2 Part show in the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center to meet our design development team. The show will be on Wednesday April 22 and Thursday April 23 from 9:30am - 3:30pm. We are excited to get out and talk to our existing network of friends as well
Shea+Latone expands its product & BIFMA testing capabilities. On site product testing is a crucial part of what Shea+Latone provides during any new product's development cycle. Over the past few years our testing needs have grown, and with that so has our lab. We’ve moved from having one reconfigurable test platform onto having a full
We are proud to see that DesignIntelligence ranks Philadelphia University among the top in the nation for several facets of its industrial design program. Shea+Latone and Philadelphia University have a close connection through ex-Knoll furniture employees and ID program Director, Gotz Unger. Gotz has been instrumental in helped get several Philadelphia University alumni positions at our firm.
The Infinity bleacher seating design for Irwin Telescopic Seating has been getting a lot of favorable reviews. We designed the seat to be comfortable, durable, and create a nice visual when ganged together in a stadium. Irwin has been busy with installed of the new seating design. Check out install photos here: Infinity Seat Bleacher
Humanscale®'s Diffrient Smart™ Chair is featured in this months "The Best Furniture Design of 2014" issue of Dwell Magazine. Check out this months issue for some helpful tips from Humanscale's Sacha Burn on how to choose a comfortable task chair. Humanscale and Niels Diffrient have been at the forefront of ergonomic furniture design for a
William Pederson, one of the founders of world renowned architecture firm KPF has debuted his new Loop de Loop chair line at ICFF. After several years of development work we are proud to have helped Bill get to this show. The Loop de Loop project proved technologically challenging and required countless CNC bending trials. The
