Hagerman Blog

Striving for improvement has been central to what makes design in the US so great and what has inspired craftsmen, manufacturers, and inventors to keep pushing for what’s best, biggest, next. Even in an age of cloud-enabled, computer-aided design solutions, American grit wins out.

Run an Internet search on “designing the workplace of the future,” and your results will yield designs that include everything from solo workers surrounded by virtual touch screens and Alien-inspired chairs that spin you from task to task to floating mini cubicles united only by a wireless connection.

It’s something you’d see on a mountainous screen at an IMAX theater: a helicopter hovering along the steep wall of a rocky canyon, a drone buzzing through the bowels of a restricted government facility, high-stakes reconnaissance from a river raft, an amphibious robot assaulting an underwater target with sonar.