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    One of the market's most influential flooring designers, David Oakey, sat down with Floor Focus to talk about his role as Interface's chief product designer and how he blends trends with marketing discipline to create products that not only sell by are also sustainably desired.
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Interior Design
Designer David Oakey examines biophilic design and biomimicry through the lens of Pond Studios, his 20-year-old studio in LaGrange, Georgia
April 2017
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Floor Focus
Carpet Tile Stay Relevant by Responding to Cultural and Design Trends
February 2017
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Design Futures Council
Technology-Inspired Trends Emerging in Biophillic Design
4th Quarter 2016
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Frame
David Oakey translates biomimicry fascination into carpet innovation
August 26, 2016
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Floor Trends
Industry Q&A: The Oakey’s on designing Sustainable Floors
December 1, 2015
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Interior Design
David Oakey Heralds the Return of Nature in the Workplace
September 15, 2015
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Cubes
David Oakey is undisputedly one of the foremost advocates of biomimicry
August 25, 2015
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Floor Trends
Designer Q&A: Oakeys Discuss Latest Commercial Trends
July 12th, 2015
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Mix Interiors
Wellbeing in the Workplace
July 2015
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Architect
Q+A: Closing the Loop with Product Designers David and Cindi Oakey
June 18, 2015
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Interface Biophilia Report
Infographic: Biophilic Design in the Workplace
October 2014
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Interface Biophilia Report
Biophilic Design in the Workplace
October 2014
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Azure
2014 AZ Awards Winner: Best Product Design
June-August 2014
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Mix Interiors
Human Nature collection is the forward thinking new global collection 
June 2014
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PR Newswire
Inspiring Beautiful Thinking From The Ground Up
June 9, 2014
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Floor Focus
Industry Leaders: Then & Now – 2012
July 2012
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Huffington Post
Biomimicry: How Copying Nature Leads To Healthier Humans, Planet
January 4, 2012
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Cubes
David Oakey entered the complex yet common-sense world of biomimicry
August- September 2012
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Floor Focus
David Oakey reveals the principals that have shaped him as a design leader
October 2010
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New York Construction
A Carpet Manufacturer Reinvents Its Business Model
November, 2008
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Fast Company
Biomimicry: Nature-Inspired Designs
October 2008
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Stir
What Would Nature Do?
2006
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ID Magazine
Material Migrations
March- April 2005
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Biomimicry
Biomimicry: An interview with David Oakey
July 14, 2004
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Smithsonian
More and More Innovative Scientist are Turning to the Natural World for Inspiration
July 2002
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ID Magzine
What Nature Knows About Design
May 2002
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R Power
Mastering Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is just the first step
November 1, 2001
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Trimtab
Nature as a Model
Spring 2001
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Fast Company
Landscape of the Interior
March 2001
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Business Week
Bringing Nature Indoors
November 6, 2000
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Interior Design
Back to Nature
1997
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