MGA&D Stryker Experience Book

STRYKER EXPERIENCE

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MICHAEL GRAVES ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN

WE BELIEVE HUMANISM IS THE SOUL OF DESIGN AND

ENABLES TRANSFORMATIVE RESULTS. WE VIEW EACH DESIGN

OPPORTUNITY AS AN UNFOLDING STORY – AND THE PERSON

OCCUPYING THE SPACE OR USING A PRODUCT – AS THE

CENTRAL CHARACTER. BY FOCUSING ON THE INDIVIDUAL, WE

HUMANIZE DESIGN. AS A RESULT, PEOPLE EXPERIENCE OUR

WORK SPATIALLY, VISUALLY AND EMOTIONALLY.

ARCHITECTURE

PLANNING

INTERIOR DESIGN

PRODUCT DESIGN

BRANDING

GRAPHIC DESIGN

MGA&D

“ DESIGN IS A TOOL WE USE TO TOUCH PEOPLE,

ENGAGE THEIR SENSES AND ENHANCE THEIR LIVES.”

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Founded by AIA Gold Medalist Michael Graves in 1964, Michael Graves Architecture & Design (MGA&D) is recognized as one of the leading design firms in the world. Through approaching projects aesthetically and empathetically, MGA&D achieves transformative results for clients. MGA&D offers a full spectrum of architecture and product design services. Architecture projects span the globe, while the firm has brought to market over 2,000 products for clients such as Kimberly-Clark, Stryker Medical, Alessi, JCPenney, and Target. MGA&D is a unique, highly integrated, practice that offers strategic advantages to clients worldwide. For more information, visit michaelgraves.com.

The architectural practice has designed over 400 buildings worldwide encompassing many

building types: large-scale master plans, corporate headquarters and other office buildings, hotels and resorts, restaurants and retail stores, facilities for sports and recreation, healthcare facilities, civic projects such as embassies, courthouses and monuments, a wide variety of university buildings, museums, theaters, public libraries, housing and private residences. MGA&D has received over 300 awards for design excellence.

MGA&D’s Interiors Studio provides design services for all of its architectural projects and also has a stand-alone practice. MGA&D’s interiors studio has extensive experience in the hospitality industry, including the design of hotel guest rooms, suites, public amenities, conference centers, restaurants and clubs, as well as serviced apartments, luxury suites and penthouses, and villas.

The Interiors Studio often custom-designs furniture and artwork that complement the character of the firm’s architecture and interiors.

MGA&D has designed over 2000 consumer products, which include both building components such as lighting, hardware, bath and kitchen products, and a wide variety of consumer products for home, office and personal use. MGA&D’s strategic partnerships include manufacturers such as Alessi, Steuben, Dansk, Disney, Baldinger Architectural Lighting, David Edward Furniture, Glen Eden, Stryker Medical, Drive Medical, Delta Faucet and Progress Lighting, among others, and also retailers such as JCPenney, Target Stores and international distribution companies. MGA&D has designed innovative packaging and graphic identity programs for many of its projects.

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OUR VISION

Through his recent design work, Michael Graves has gained new expertise and insight into how people live and work, whether mobility challenged or not.

Michael and the firm are poised to drive transformative change in healthcare environments for the aging and physically disabled population, as well as the people who care for them.

Given Michael’s personal experience and our vision for the future, together with select business partners, we can serve this important growing healthcare market and drive superior financial performance for all.

MICHAEL GRAVES WAS

APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT

OBAMA TO THE UNITED

STATES ACCESS BOARD AND

HAS BEEN INVITED TO

SPEAK AT MAJOR

HEALTHCARE DESIGN

CONFERENCES.


MEANINGFULPARTNERSHIPS

MGA&D strives to create partnerships that are deep and meaningful. Our design philosophy leads to solutions for our clients that are humanistic, pragmatic, pioneering, distinctive, and intuitive. For more than thirty years our proprietary design process has led to transformative

results. Our famous Whistling Bird Kettle helped Alessi to attract a whole new group of consumers both in the US and abroad; as the first external design partner for Target, we helped to create the “democratization of design movement” – bringing great design to the mass market.

For Stryker, we transformed the patient room and patient transport experience which succeeded in opening a new market for them with the A+D community. In short, we practice humanistic design to create transformative results.


The process is fluid and lean, where elements of research, exploration and production overlap on the project timeline to inform each other. As the project progresses,

involvement in research tapers while exploration peaks to a point before production takes an increasing priority, leading to completion.

OUR DESIGN PROCESS

OVER 2500 PRODUCTSBROUGHT

TO MARKET

EXPLORECOLLECT + ANALYZE REFINE + PRODUCE

The goal of this cycle is to

define the design intent.

This begins with asking

the right questions, and

collecting relevant data.

Creative analysis helps us

understand the context,

people and challenges.

Infused with imagination,

creativity & passion, our

design exploration runs

in parallel with research

and the two processes

inform each other,

contributing to the clarity

of the design intent.

Collaborating with

engineers, MGA&D works

through the design to

manufacture phase in order

to optimize each design for

commercial success.

CYCLE OF DEFINITION MAGIC CYCLE OF PRODUCTION

OUR SOLUTIONS ADDRESS THE KEY QUESTIONS FROM OUR RESEARCH


CAN PATIENT ROOM FURNITURE

BE DESIGNED TO:

HELP CONTROL INFECTION?

PREVENT FALLS?

REDUCE CAREGIVER BACK STRAIN?

A Overbed Table

B Bed Side Cabinet

C Patient Chair

D Bed Side Table

A B

On the overbed table and the bedside stands, certain “passive” and “active” strategies for mitigating the spread of infection were designed into the products. The form and color distinction on the top of the overbed table teaches patients to keep the main area clear, so food service can leave a patient’s food tray without

touching anything in the room. This is a key strategy for minimizing the spread of infection as they travel from room to room delivering meals.

We also streamlined the overbed table and bedside stands to make them easier to disinfect. On the overbed table there is no split top,

there are not cavities, there are no outboard bins. The stand assist armrests on the patient chair make it easier for patients to safely get into and out of the chairs. This innovation reduces nurse and patient injuries common with these transfers.

RESEARCH DRIVEN SOLUTIONS


A Bed Side Cabinet

B Detail of Height Adjustment

C Overbed Table

D Stand-Assist Chair

C

B

A

D


Hospitals are constantly evolving to improve patient outcomes, yet a key piece of equipment that is ubiquitous has gone unaltered since it was patented in 1933. And it was never designed for use in the hospital. We’re talking about the wheelchair! Prime TC is the result of a thorough product development process undertaken to transform seated patient transport in the hospital. Discoveries have turned into real solutions to problems that go beyond the patient experience.

A Movable Arm Rests

B Value-Added Accessories

C Nests To Save Space. In Order To Prevent Theft, It Does Not Collapse.

D Swing Away Foot Rests

PRIME TC TRANSPORT CHAIR


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C

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B

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Vistas Collection (left)

Voyages Collection (right)

C.F. STINSONPERFORMANCE FABRICS

Together with textile industry expert CF Stinson, MGA&D launched two collections of healthcare focused high performance fabrics between 2012 and 2014. The “Voyages” and “Vistas” collections are named because Michael Graves drew inspiration for the collections’ patterns and colors from the cities, architectural sites and natural landscapes he has visited around the world.


MGA&D

609.924.6409341 Nassau Street Princeton, NJ 08540

[email protected]

MICHAELGRAVES.com

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