Thinking Space’s 2021 colour collection for control room furniture is now available. After the launch of a new printed panel in 2019, the finishes for worktops and panels have been updated to reflect the latest trends in the office world. A wider range of colours will help customers to team corporate identity with control room as well as creating the right mood and ambience for the wellbeing of operators.
What’s new?
The 2021 colour collection brings together a greyscale base palette with colour accent palettes in the main colour groups – either as a worktop or panel finish. The new colour accents complement a corporate identity, by choosing a palette to match a logo or brand code. A branded workspace is a way for an organisation to address the human factor in a control room.
Colours have a psychological effect on the average person, which can evoke emotions to make us feel happy, relaxed, energetic or calm. These emotions are critical in control rooms, where decisions are made in stressful situations. Colours can affect emotions depending on the brightness, shade or tint creating warm or cool tones. They can be used to emphasise and uplift a colour scheme by adding punch in small quantities, creating a modern look to any environment.
Worktops
There are now 35 worktop variations offered as standard to choose from. Using two suppliers, the worktops all provide the low levels of reflection required in control rooms, conforming to BS 11064. Of these, eight worktop colours offer antibacterial protection, with a silver icon core construction and are approved for use within hospital and food industries.
Panels
In 2019 Thinking Space launched the printed panel, after being awarded funding from the Solent Local Enterprise Partnership. This involved the purchase of a new digital printer which prints patterns onto the aluminium composite panel, rather than applying a laminate finish material. The panels are coated with a protective finish to ensure the ten year warranty of the product.
The inaugural range of 12 colour choices consisted of patterns to match the current offering, with new finishes added to compliment the furniture. A range of individual panel designs was also offered, including gradients and images which would be replicated over the console panels. In the 2021 colour collection, 34 pattern finishes are offered as standard, in line with the base and accent palettes.
Custom service
Thinking Space also offers a custom printing service for panels, available at extra charge. Two patterns, spots and mezzotint, can be used as the base pattern for any RAL or Pantone colour you require. The application of your chosen images and graphics onto the console, whether it be on one panel such as a logo, or running around the length of the console with a unique design.
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