Best Green Design

Rendering by Tom Newhall

At MOD '11, an annual event celebrating the best in lightweight, modular, and sustainable design, Transformit won "Best Green Exhibit" for the 60' x 100' exhibit that was designed and built for The North Face. The award ceremony was attended by over 300 industry...

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Charity Events

Photo by Cindy Thompson

This photo shows our installation at "Spring for the Kids", the annual fundraiser for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine, held in the gym of the downtown Portland club. Our association with this club dates to when Transformit consisted of Cindy and her dog, with a shop too small to dry run her work.

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Sculpture Shows the Way

Photo by Makenzie Case

Undulating, luminous tension fabric sculptures, installed in the Vancouver, B.C. headquarters of Discovery Parks Trust, lead visitors through the entry atrium into the shared public space of the cafe. A third piece in the boardroom also leads to the cafe.

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New Catalog & CAD Models

Photo by Tom Newhall

The New Catalog contains several new products: The Hug, Big Hug, Kiss, Big Kiss, and Smooch, from the Love collection; the Fiddlehead, first of the new Silhouettes collection and; the FireFly Navigators, in the Organics collection.

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Non-Shoppers' Refuge

Photo by Scott Belanger

Greenwood, Indiana is the site of something new in retailing: a place (shaded by Transformit Fireflys) where non-shoppers, typically men, can relax and watch a game while shoppers, typically women, take care of business.

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Fear No Art

by Cindy Thompson

Recently Paul LePage, Maine's new governor, ordered the removal of public art from the State Department of Labor's headquarters. Painted in 2008 by Judy Taylor, the mural depicts important events and people in Maine's labor history. Our governor thinks the mural offends business people. (read more)

Photo by Diana Lucas Leavengood