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		Designtex Showroom Display Graphics
	Environmental Graphics	Designtex, a Steelcase Company, is located in Manhattan where SoHo meets Greenwich Village and has provided the design community with a wide range of upholstery, wallcovering and panel fabrics since 1961.

Designtex designers seek inspiration every day by observing, exploring, inquiring and experimenting while designing unique materials and have become leaders in fabric technology, environmental responsibility and service. We were commissioned to design a set of environmental textile exhibits for the SoHo showroom honoring the history of Designtex product introductions by some of the most esteemed designers in the business: Nuts and Bolts by Susan Lyons 1992 The first use of solution dyed nylon in the contract textile market. The collection is incredibly durable, lightfast and colorfast. William McDonough Collection 1995 First truly environmentally intelligent textiles ever designed. The fabric is compostable and entirely healthy—in its production, use and disposal. Portfolio by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Richard Meier and Aldo Rossi 1991 A collection of avant-garde upholstery fabrics designed by world class architects who produced some of the most inspirational and controversial textiles of the time. Autumn by M.C. Escher 1988 Part of a collection based on Escher's original drawings in which foreground becomes background, top becomes bottom, fish become birds and staircases lead to nowhere. In addition to our 8 foot tall richly colored textile panels, and computer generated portraits of the designers, we also created a series of symbols that conveyed physical properties such as: colorfastness fire retardancy abrasion