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Rethinking the way we sit down

Niels Diffrient · TED

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About

Design legend Niels Diffrient talks about his life in industrial design (and the reason he became a designer instead of a jet pilot). He details his quest to completely rethink the office chair starting from one fundamental data set: the human body.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED2002
Speaker
Niels Diffrient
Year
2002
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Business and management, Art, architecture and design
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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