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Veryday became the new name of Ergonomidesign in 2012. Ergonomidesign, formerly Ergonomi Design Gruppen, is a Swedish industrial design consultancy based in Bromma, Stockholm, with offices in New York, Shanghai, as well as representation in London. Ergonomidesign has 55 employees and the CEO is Krister Torssell. The company works to create new business opportunities and strengthen brands for their customers. They work within Product Design, Interaction Design, Service Design, Design strategy, Innovation Support and Premium Research. Ergonomidesign specializes in physical, cognitive and emotional ergonomics. This knowledge has been given the name ''Ergonomics3''. They have produced more than 350 patents and have won more Red Dot Design Award than any other design firm in the world. In BusinessWeek's 2008 ranking of leading design agencies, Ergonomidesign tied as number 4 in the world.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Table: Design Winners for 2008… )〕 Veryday won the Red Dot Design Team of the year award 2014. == History == The company started with the foundation of ''Designgruppen'' in 1969. The founders were a handful of designers with experience from companies such as AGA, ASEA and IBM. Among the first collaborations were customers as ESAB, Flygt, AGA and The Cooperative Union. Two years later the designer Henrik Wahlforss and his "Ergonomidesign" moved into the same location in the old glue factory in Traneberg outside Stockholm. Ergonomidesign specialized in working with disabled facilities and other user-oriented, inclusive design projects. The two companies got so intermingled that they decided to merge into a single company in 1979. The common focus was the profound studies of the user. The new company, Ergonomi Design Gruppen, moved a year later into a converted chapel in Bromma outside Stockholm, which still today is Ergonomidesign’s headquarter. The company was run as co-operative with a rolling CEO and general meetings. As several other young design firms in the early 1970s, assistive devices would become an important product area for Ergonomi Design Gruppen. In 1972 two of the founders, Maria Benktzon〔(moma.org )〕 and Sven-Erik Juhlin,〔(moma.org )〕 carried out deep-going ergonomic and physiological studies to investigate the grip of such as bread knives and saws. This led to pioneering achievements to raise the standards of facilities for the disabled.〔''Svenska formrebeller, Historiska Media'', 2008〕 The result was a wide range of ergonomically designed objects that draw great international attention for RFSU Rehab, Bahco, BabyBjörn, Pfizer and many others. Many of the products are represented at the Swedish National Museum, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and the Design Museum in London. One of the exhibits is the world's first angled kitchen knife designed for Gustavsberg in 1973. Throughout the 1980s, Ergonomi Design Gruppen continued to work on user-oriented, inclusive products and work environments, with a heavy emphasis on systematic user research, stakeholder collaboration and sustainability. When the economy picked up in the mid-1990s, Ergonomi Design Gruppen started to grow by employing young designers that added new, complementary skills meanwhile they shared the same fundamental values as the founders. Ergonomidesign has in the last ten years extended its reach by adding new services, entering new market segments and opening new offices. Today Ergonomidesign works within Product Design, Interaction Design, Service Design, Design Strategy, Innovation Support and Premium Research. Since 2001, the company name is once again Ergonomidesign. Today the company has about 70 employees and has 5 branches around the world. The latest design studio in downtown Manhattan NYC opened in 2012 and an office in Shanghai 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Veryday」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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