Kimball Office Receives Prestigious “GOOD DESIGN” Award for Innovative New Desk System: Hum. Minds at Work.®

The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, has distinguished Kimball Office with a 2008 GOOD DESIGN™ Award for the Company’s Hum. Minds At Work.® desk system. The award reflects Kimball’s growing reputation as a leader in problem-solving design and workplace efficiency. Kimball was previously honored with GOOD DESIGN awards for its Scenario™ table line in 2008 and its Adagiato guest seating line in 2007.

The GOOD DESIGN™ program honors products, designers and industry leaders for excellent, innovative and visionary design. Criteria for award selection is based on function and aesthetic, with a contemporary emphasis on environmental concerns, and stretching beyond what is considered basic product and consumer design.

The Hum product was designed in coordination with Formway Design Studio, New Zealand for Kimball Office and introduced to the marketplace last June during the annual NeoCon® trade show in Chicago. Designed to address the global demand for collaborative workspaces, Hum is the result of three years of “cognitive ergonomics” research, studying how people actually work, mentally as well as physically, as they continually shift between concentration and collaboration. Breaking new ground as a workplace desk system that facilitates easy shifts between individual work to team interaction and back again, Hum helps users attain peak productivity.

Hum was also designed with the environment in mind, containing significant recycled content, rapidly-renewable resources, low-energy consumption lights and is easily refurbished or taken apart for end-of-life recycling. Hum is certified to meet the U.S. Green Building Council LEED Indoor Air Quality requirements.

Since its introduction, Hum has earned numerous accolades in the office furniture industry, including Interior Design magazine’s Green Star award for environmental excellence; Designers Institute of New Zealand’s 2008 BeST Design Awards; a Silver Innovation award at IIDEX/NeoCon Canada; and Buildings magazine’s Citation of Excellence in the Workplace Productivity category.

The GOOD DESIGN awards program was founded in 1950 by architects Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames, and Edgar J. Kaufmann, Jr., former curator of the Museum of Modern Art. Now in its 58th year, the exclusive awards program is one of the oldest and most important design competitions in the world, annually honoring innovation and creativity in 23 categories such as furniture, textiles, bath fixtures and accessories, transportation, brand identity, packaging, kitchen appliances, household products, electronics, tools, and sports equipment.

The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies announced this year’s winners after screening entries from among the thousands of industrial, product and graphic design entries submitted by leading companies and designers from 34 nations around the globe.

For further details regarding the Hum product, go to www.humoffice.com.

About Kimball Office:

A recognized leader in fine workplace furnishings, Kimball Office has been building its reputation on quality and integrity of design for more than 35 years. Kimball Office serves the business market with casegoods, seating and systems furniture in wood and metal and in styles ranging from traditional to contemporary. A full line of products provides solutions to businesses ranging from multinational corporations to start-up companies. Kimball Office is a brand unit of Kimball International, a $1.4 billion publicly traded company headquartered in Jasper, Indiana. To learn more, please visit www.kimballoffice.com.

About The Chicago Athenaeum:

The Chicago Athenaeum is an international museum of architecture and design, appropriately based in the world’s first city of modern architecture and design: Chicago. Founded in 1988, the Museum is dedicated to the art of design in all areas of the discipline: architecture, industrial, and product design, graphics, and urban planning. The Museum’s mission is the advancement of public education about the value of Good Design – from the “spoon to the city” – and how design can positively impact the human environment. The Museum is supported by its membership and by grants from corporations, foundations, and local and national government agencies. To learn more, visit the Museum’s website at: www.chi-athenaeum.org.

About Kimball International:

Recognized with a reputation for excellence, Kimball International is committed to a high performance culture that values personal and organizational commitment to quality, reliability, value, speed, and ethical behavior. Kimball employees know they are part of a corporate culture that builds success for Customers while enabling employees to share in the Company’s success through personal, professional and financial growth.

Kimball International, Inc. (NASDAQ: KBALB) provides a variety of products from its two business segments: the Electronic Manufacturing Services segment and the Furniture segment. The Electronic Manufacturing Services segment provides engineering and manufacturing services which utilize common production and support capabilities to a variety of industries globally. The Furniture segment provides furniture for the office and hospitality industries, sold under the Company’s family of brand names.

To learn more about Kimball International, Inc., visit the Company’s website at: www.kimball.com.

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