FluidStance Blog

June 16, 2015

The Most Memorable Moments of Dwell on Design Los Angeles 2015

Dwell On Design by Brandi Andres “I’m the kind of person who is easily bored, so for me it is super essential to go into new territories,” says world-renowned designer Marcel Wanders on stage for the DODLA keynote. When designers, architects, and design enthusiasts all converged at Dwell on Design Los Angeles, a number of extraordinary happenings occurred. From prefab tours,...

June 8, 2015

Does Your Level® Migrate Away From Your Desk? Learn The Penguin Walk

What we love about the Level is that it brings motion and playfulness into the workspace. As you play around with different stances and start to incorporate the spin, twist, and flow into your workday, you may notice that you are no longer situated directly in front of your workstation. You might need to learn the Penguin Walk. Brad, an early...

May 20, 2015

The Level® Wins Inc. Magazine’s Best in Class Design Award

We are thrilled to announce that the Level® has won Inc. Magazine’s 2015 Best in Class Design Award! Thank you to everyone who took the time to vote and support us. Read about the Level, as well as the other great products in the running, in Inc. Magazine.

May 19, 2015

A 2-Minute Walk May Counter the Harms of Sitting | From The New York Times

NY Times by Gretchen Reynolds. With evidence mounting that sitting for long stretches of time is unhealthy, many of us naturally wonder how best to respond. Should we stand up, or is merely standing insufficient? Must we also stroll or jog or do jumping jacks? A new study offers some helpful perspective, suggesting that even a few minutes per hour of moving instead...

April 22, 2015

Doing Our Part

Our mission in creating FluidStance® has been to set the world in motion. We’ve been hard at work doing just that. We’ve built our first product, The Level®, with that in mind – a tool designed to bring movement to your workday. But before the Level, when FluidStance was just a thought, it was obvious we were going to make “stuff”....

April 11, 2015

FluidStance® Reviews: Heard in the Wild

It’s been incredibly exciting to see our first FluidStance Levels out there in the wild, and even more exciting to hear about your first experiences. Here’s a snapshot of some of our pioneering FluidStance® reviews. FluidStance reviews in the form of tweets from the wild: FLUIDSTANCE®@fluidstance · Feb 27, 2015Replying to @tchaten @tchaten Awesome Tim! Have you taken it for a spin yet?...

March 11, 2015

My Standing Desk and FluidStance® Journey – A N00B’s 5 day diary

Hi there! My name is Katherine and this is my real-time, 5 day “diary” of sorts. It’s my take on being new to a standing desk and being new to the FluidStance Level®. Full disclosure: I am part of the FluidStance team. But this is a pretty raw, honest day-by-day account of my experience with standing and with the Level. ...

March 2, 2015

FluidStance® Press & Media Coverage

It’s been an incredibly exciting couple of months for us at FluidStance. We watched the world embrace The Level®, our first shipments went out the door and FluidStance got some exciting press coverage. In case you missed it, here are some highlights from FluidStance® press and media coverage: “Forget treadmill desks: this device lets you surf in place at your standing...

February 12, 2015

10 Ways to Make Your Workspace More Active

Most of us have to work, and many of us work in traditional office spaces where chairs rule the land. According to the American Journal of Epidemiology, 86% of Americans sit for over 7.7 hours a day. Take that hefty number, layer on long commutes, some evening TV time and you’re looking at a lot of people clocking mega duff...

February 11, 2015

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk,” Hot Off The Onion Press

Those Health Experts referenced by The Onion may really onto a great way to tackle our workplace sitting habits. However, the days you just can’t follow this advice, we’ve got your back. Take a look and what they have to say… “ROCHESTER, MN—In an effort to help working individuals improve their fitness and well-being, experts at the Mayo Clinic issued a new set of health guidelines...