Tricycle Inc.
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Tricycle Inc is a sustainable design company founded in 2002 to serve the creative product lifecycle of the interior design and architecture professions and their suppliers. The Company primarily works with carpet manufacturers such as Interface Inc. and Mohawk Industries to reduce the waste involved in developing products and getting them to market. Tricycle and its core digital modeling/simulation technology, SIM from Tricycle®, have been recognized internationally for leadership in green design through the Green Apple Award and Green Heroes Award (UK) for environmental best practices in the United States; an American Institute of Architects, CoreNet and International Interior Design Association Special Recognition for Global Sustainable Leadership; an INDEX:2005 shortlist nomination for Design to Improve Life (Denmark); a 2006 nomination for a National Design Award for Corporate Achievement from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum; and a 2006 Gold IDEA award from the Industrial Designers Society of America and Business Week for EcoDesign. The company's headquarters are in Chattanooga, Tennessee with an R&D center in Leeds, England.
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In 2006, Tricycle designed, edited and published REVERB, an "anthology of the moment" about sustainability in the interiors industry, with articles written by eco-consultants, commercial interior designers and editors of industry magazines. Sponsorships allow half of the book's sales go to support Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that enlists the help of architects and designers in areas devastated by natural disasters and AIDS. REVERB's writers are Holley Henderson, Chair of LEED for Commercial Interiors, Mairi Beautyman of Interior Design magazine and Treehugger.com, Melissa Mizell of Gensler, a report from a Saturday Education Seminar at the Color Marketing Group's Spring international meeting, MK Timme of InteriorDesign.net, Katie Weeks of Contract Magazine, Bill Grant of Grant Design Collaborative, Nadav Malin of Environmental Building News, Carlie Bullock-Jones of Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates Architects, and Cameron Sinclair of Architecture for Humanity.
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SIM from Tricycle® digitally models carpet for manufacturers when prototyping new designs and for architects and designers when reviewing samples in the early stages of a project. SIM produces color-accurate renderings by capturing the yarn color under a specific light source and includes a representation of the design's pattern by simulating the carpet machine manufacturing. The samples are recyclable into new paper products and available on 100% post consumer waste paper. Produced on-demand, there is no excess inventory, and wait times for designers are reduced to only 24 hours. Tricycle operates this service as the SIM+Factory.
Apso® is Tricycle's CAD software brand. The carpet design suite is called Jet Set. There are also a number of fabric design applications such as Dobby Designer.
[edit] External links
- Tricycle corporate site
- Tricycle public blog
- Apso, Tricycle's CAD brand
- Sustainability book REVERB
