The search included a few hefty requirements.

• It had to look sexy (come on what do you expect from young fresh hip designers such as ourselves :-)
• It had to be comfortable for long periods.
• It needed to be worth the money for the comfort
• We had to find chairs that we both liked. (I being on the rather larger butt size made this a bit difficult)
• We had to basically just freaking love the thing and be available to afford it!

We began our search with of course what most designers see as the best of the best, the Herman Miller Aeron. These chairs are not only stylish but rated for 24 hours.  Our good friend Jason Cohen shares space with us and we have tested his, meaning jacked his chair when he is gone for a late night design festival, and we where not completely sold on the comfort of the chair for the price. The Aerons are generally great, but I found that the bars that hold the mesh in oddly poked me in the leg and didn’t make for a comfortable sit. Jamie on the other hand tended to slip off of the mesh seats.

We continued our search and really stumbled upon our perfect solution. There is a company known as Human Scale that make a chair that fit all of our requirements (they also make some really cool office essentials as well). The chair we finally fell in love with is known as the Freedom chair. Our chairs are a bit different than the picture below but you get the idea. The great thing about the Freedom chair is that is doesn’t require a complicated set of knobs, bells, and whistles to get the thing to feel comfortable. The chair really molds itself to your body when you sit down. It also automatically leans back with you while providing enough support for your back. They also look pretty freaking sweet if we do say so ourselves.

I know this is a long post but I felt it was worth the detail. Hope this helps anyone searching for the perfect graphic designers chair. Good luck.

-Crucé

This site is the third site in the series for St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church in Carencro. We did the parish site, the Life Teen site, and finally their junior high EDGE ministry website. Let us know what you think.

- Crucé

Sorry,
Cruce

Jamie Orillion: jamie@printphotoweb.com
Daniel Kedinger: daniel@printphotoweb.com

Yesterday was pretty crazy! Two meetings in the morning that both ran long, three t-shirt designs to get to the screeners, and I had to help get some food ready for some friends my fiancee and I were having over to her house for dinner. All in in all I thank Red Bull and the new Snickers Charged (with Caffeine) for helping get through the day. Since I gave up coffee for Lent I have been pretty caffeine deprived so those two together gave me a serious rush! The Red Bull gave me wings and the Snickers gave me a jumpy leg and twitchy hand!

I stumbled across this site today somehow… and yeah… cought me by suprise!  I just wanted to laugh, but at the same time thought it was so cool that I wanted to try it out.  Check out the “Washlet“ at their website “cleanishappy.com“.  They are distributed by Toto.  Anyway… Just thought I would share! -Jamie ;) 

It is always amazing how much work you can put into coding a website. Most people think that website design is just reusing templates and changing styles, but custom coding requires a great deal more work. We just recently finished a site that required a bit of creative thinking to get the site to do want we wanted to do. We got everything working then realized at the last minute that we needed to get Safari to play along. If any of you work in CSS and XHTML you know that different browsers don’t all behave the same way. So if you are ever wondering if we just reuse sites that we code before, you got your answer.

Later,
Daniel