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Tilting is Bad if You’re a Pinball Wizard, but Great if You’ve Got a Two-Position Chair from University Loft

May 11, 2012 Bob Comfort, Ergonomics, Innovation, Safety, University Furniture

Video games are great, but there’s just something about a pinball machine that can’t be beat. Maybe it’s the sheer size of the game. Maybe it’s the fact that some of the best games are nothing less than works of kinetic art. Or maybe it’s the old-school feel of the machine or the engaging sounds. [...]

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Posters on the Dorm Room Wall? University Loft Has Outlasted Them All.

May 7, 2012 Bob Customization, Environment, Green Initiatives, Innovation, Quality, University Furniture, University Loft Company

This is just a guess, but I’ll bet at least 3 out of 10 college males in 1976 had a dorm room wall adorned by that famous poster of Farrah Fawcett in the red swimsuit. The poster was so popular (the biggest seller of all time) and so iconic that Farrah’s swimsuit was added to [...]

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Lofty Heights: University Loft Climbs the Ranks of the FDM 300

April 25, 2012 Bob Awards, Green Initiatives, Quality, University Furniture, University Loft Company

We’ve done it again! University Loft Company has once again risen in the ranks of the FDM 300, an annual listing of North America’s leading manufacturers of furniture, cabinets, fixtures and millwork by the editors of CabinetMaker+FDM. Among the 300 listed industry leaders, University Loft Company has risen for the fifth consecutive year. After ranking [...]

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Student Residence Wisdom from the Chief Housing Officer Institute

April 18, 2012 Bob Comfort, Community, Customer Service, Environment, General, Personalization, Quality, Safety, University Furniture, University Loft Company

As I write this, the Chief Housing Officer Institute at the Emory University Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia is in full swing and generating lots of enthusiastic chatter on the Twitter backchannel and beyond via hashtag #CHOI12. If you know Twitter, you know that hashtags are a way for a diverse chorus of voices to [...]

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What Your Ergonomic Seating Choices from University Loft Say About You

April 16, 2012 Bob Comfort, Customization, Innovation, Personalization, University Furniture

Three choices. No way to go wrong. But still a decision to be made. A seat-of-the-pants decision? Well, yes…and no. Deciding which of the ergonomic student chairs from University Loft is best for you might take a little soul searching. Here’s what your choice from University Loft student seating solutions might say about you: The [...]

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If University Loft Student Furniture Were a Car, What Kind Would It Be?

April 13, 2012 Bob Comfort, Customization, Environment, Personalization, Quality, University Furniture

Ever ask yourself these kinds of questions? By assigning characteristics from one type of product (or species, for that matter) to another, you can gain some interesting insights into the first subject. It’s an interesting exercise, so let’s take a look at what kind of car University Loft furniture for student housing might be: Crafted [...]

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Have a Student Furniture Buying Decision to Make? Go With a Proven Winner: University Loft

April 10, 2012 Bob Comfort, Customization, Environment, Innovation, Personalization, Quality, University Furniture

Near the end of April each year, NFL teams have big decisions to make. They have to evaluate the college players available and choose the right ones to make their teams even better. Likewise, if you are a university housing furniture buyer, Directors of Residence Life, Director of Purchasing or Director of Facilities, the student housing [...]

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Ten Personal Observations, Mystifying Questions and Surprising Revelations About University Loft Furniture

April 3, 2012 Bob Customization, Environment, General, Green Initiatives, Innovation, Personalization, University Furniture, University Loft Company

1. Looking back, my college days were among the best times of my life (but they would have been way better if I’d had University Loft student furniture in my dorm room). 2. If University Loft’s solid wood modular student furniture had been in my residence hall, I might have stayed at that college longer. [...]

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What if Movie Classics Featured University Loft Student Furniture?

March 30, 2012 Bob Comfort, Customization, Environment, Green Initiatives, Innovation, Quality, University Furniture, University Loft Company

I love classic movies. And not just the old classics, but some newer gems, too. As I was looking through the Internet Movie Database (IMDb.com) list of the Top 250 films as ranked by IMDb users, a few titles popped out at me, and then a few more, until I found myself reimagining the storylines [...]

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What’s the Word for Fear of Choosing the Wrong Student Furniture?

March 29, 2012 Bob Customization, Environment, Green Initiatives, Personalization, Quality, University Furniture

Did you know that there’s an actual term for the fear of long words? Ironically, it’s this: hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. Say that three times fast. Or not. There are lots of terms that denote one kind of fear or another. You probably recognize claustrophobia (fear of being closed in or confined in a tight space), acrophobia (fear [...]

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