Hands-On Learning at Kimball Office

As a student, every real-life job experience is a prime opportunity to gain personal knowledge and a step toward advancing your skill set—i.e., a much needed boost to separate yourself from the hundreds of resumes circulating across hiring managers’ desks. Recently, Kimball® Office provided a group of interior design students from Maryville University of St. Louis (class of 2012, shown above) the chance to get the inside scoop of their product design process during a visit to the office furniture solutions manufacturer’s showroom. It’s a program Kimball runs every year.

While at Kimball, the students were exposed to manufacturing and testing procedures and given tips on how to create effective workspace environments. After the visit, the Maryville students offered to help prepare the 120 presentation boards Kimball planned to produce for its new Vision collection of surface materials. Six sets of 20 swatches were mounted and are now being displayed in each of Kimball® Office’s nine showrooms. The boards (shown above) are to be used as tools for designers and clients to browse through the new textile solutions.

–Raysha Armbrustmacher