Canadian businessman partners with Staples Canada on new office offerings.
“I used to have a lot of doodling in my early days. You will see my notebooks were full of doodles. These days, I don’t really have the time to doodle,” he says with a laugh.
“For me, there’s always one, two, three notebooks with blank, unlined pages. I need unlined because I will sometimes sketch something as opposed to just writing something. I love the quality of a good paper, I love the quality of a good pen. I still find it really important as an entrepreneur to write down my ideas to commit them to paper and to really have a goal and a strategy for how to get to my end point,” he says of his own office essentials.
“The consumer was looking for newness, excitement, collaboration,” he says. “Out of all that research came this new brand purpose for Staples, which is the working and learning company. And then, how does product and design play into that? And that’s where we play a pretty significant role in really bringing the design focus and turning some of the more mundane views of office supply into a more fulsome assortment.
“If you take the time, you can produce something that is quite beautiful, and yet quite approachable. … And that’s always the challenge: How do I do something that’s beautiful, that’s simple, approachable and is considered in good taste? Really, that has been my hallmark for years. And, it feels like I just keep getting drawn to that same sort of solution.”
In the age of social media — providing an endless stream of images and inspiration at our fingertips — Mimran says consumers are hungry for well-designed items in all areas of their lives. Their offices included.
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