LED Light Tables - The Future is bright

Light Tables and LED Light Boxes

Design constraints always exist with light tables, but maybe the outlook is a little different. Typically the technology to create a large back-lit light table has always revolved around standard florescent tubes which provide the intensity and colour requirements for detailed design and plan review work.

ORCHARD have now developed the perfect LED light box solution which allows professional light boxes to be manufactured in almost any size or shape. A0, A1, A2 and A3 light boxes are obviously match the standard paper sizes for most design, art or photography applications, but our LED system allows our designers to think outside the box when developing a new light table - make the light area large enough to meet requirement, but why stop there?

The modern design studio is always looking to impress clients and create an inspirational environment for its employees. These types of breakthrough designs where practical viewing equipment is combined with stylish, designed and refined furniture provide the best of both worlds.

From minimalist to extravagant, Orchard can develop the right light table for the requirement.

Optimising your potential to have a blue sky water cooler moment

Space Saving Solutions

Getting the most out of your work space can be challenging at the best of times. Even with a tidy work ethic the combined efforts of you and your colleagues can sometimes lay waste to your office.

Eliminating this problem entirely is certainly an achievement but to do it in style is another thing altogether.



Since Stark made his orange juicer and Kamprad screwed the leg off his table and called it IKEA, designers have been working hard at their drawing board to make your office a pleasant place to be.

The 'paperless office' thing has always been the holy grail but realistically humanity can't cope with it just yet. Paper storage and plan filing solutions exist in their droves allowing you to efficiently organise your paper sensibly.

Educational environments suffer from the same problems. Design studios and art rooms use copious amounts of paper all of which needs organising and filing. Space is often also at a premium so having multipurpose furniture can really help to get the most out of the work space.

Reversible desks are a great space saving solution for schools and colleges. Providing a normal school desk but featuring an integrated desk top drawing board for graphic and design work.

Paper weight

In a drawing office or design studio inevitably you'll spend time playing with paper. In an effort to make it more exciting I ran a little experiment by  making paper airplanes from the larger sheets and playing miniature Stanstead ... didn't work.

oops.

So instead I had a look at what options were available to manage paper in an office. Depending on how you use your paper there are many options to look at.

Vertical Plan Files
Large metal cabinets which work like a large lever-arch file. For A0 or A1 paper you stick self adhesive plan strips onto the drawings.

You can get up to 1000 drawings into a single cabinet and are ideal for archiving and large capacity storage. You can have them with an anti-tilt mechanism so they stand alone and they're also great for storing drawing in plan wallets.

Mobile Drawing Trolleys & Wall Racks

Planhorse make an excellent range of storage solutions for A0, A1, B1 and A2 CAD paper. Drawings are held in clamps with each clamp capable of holding up to 100 drawings. You can mix A0 and A1 drawings up on the same trolley because they all load from one end.

This type of system is ideal for site offices or project offices where its useful to group drawings into projects and have them quickly to hand. 

Plan Chests

For that hearty traditional feel there's always the Traditional wooden plan chest. A set of either 6, 9 or 12 drawers with a choice of wood finishes. Perfect for design / art studios they provide an in-keeping way to store A0 or A1 paper.

Constructed to withstand even the most care-free art students they'll stay together, looking good just as long as a metal plan chests.