AKA is a privately held limited company, specializing in the design, manufacture and installation of stylish technical furniture for the Music, TV and Film industries worldwide. Established for over 30 years and based in North London, we have a state of the art design and production facility enabling total control of the entire design and manufacturing process from concept to installation.
As well as our product ranges, we offer fully customised designs to fulfil our clients individual needs. We constantly push the ergonomics and styling of our designs using a variety of materials to create timeless studio furniture for Audio, Grading, Editing, Podcasting and Broadcast environments.
For 25 years AKA Design has designed and manufactured custom studio furniture desks for the post production, broadcast, recording studio and editing facilities and media environments worldwide. We liaise system integrators, acoustic architects, main contractors and installation companies to supply modern and stylish tailored technical furniture solutions for all studio environments.
AKA’s design and manufacturing process is run from the company’s North London premises. Unrivalled knowledge of studio ergonomics and understanding of both the operators’ and clients’ needs has enabled AKA to supply edit desks, broadcast consoles, grading desks and audio furniture desks for mastering, gaming, mixing and composing facilities.
AKA has worked with virtually all technical equipment available, and has CAD templates of most audio desks, grading panels and mixing consoles. Extensive experience of working with different brands has given AKA a great understanding of the working configurations, ventilation and cable management needed for integration into a facility.
AKA can supply a full custom technical furniture package including control room furniture, composing furniture, radio desks, producer’s desk, editing desks and voice over desks. An individual look and feel is created that throughout the facility, and a custom reception desk, boardroom and meeting areas can be integrated into the package.
AKA has used this concept to furnish many educational institutions including Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, Royal College of Art, Newcastle Academy and the Royal College of Music. These educational workstations have been used for editing, mixing, composing, training and teaching areas.
Whether you have a home setup, recording studio or a large broadcast facility, AKA can equip you with all technical furniture needed in an ergonomic, stylish and individual package, tailored to each budget and time line.
The AKAPRODUCT range comprises audio desks to house most leading audio brands, off-line and on-line editing and podcast desk. AKA can supply a full technical furniture package including control room furniture, composing furniture, podcast desks, radio desks and edit desks.
The AKA PRODUCT range includes various edit desk solutions: the ProEdit, ProView and ProMedia. These edit desks have been designed to meet the requirements and budgets of various editing environments and can be used for Avid, Adobe, Final Cut Pro and other platforms. The ProEdit desk integrates fully with the ProWave range to create larger working areas by adding additional worktops and racks for individual requirements. The ProView desk is a sit-stand desk suiatble for all editing and media applications. The ProMedia is a compact edit desk designed to create an editing studio in restricted spaces such as home studios, media areas and gaming studios.
The AKAPRODUCT range comes flat packed, making it easy to ship and assemble on site. All these aspects combine to provide an affordable furniture solution without compromising on design, style or quality or ergonomics.
AKA Design Ltd aims to be an industry leader in environmental responsibility. We have already demonstrated our commitment to the environment through a number of progressive initiatives, some of which include switching from acid catalysed to PU based paint, changing the lighting system to a more energy efficient system and sourcing a service provider to recycle our MDF waste. All the MDF that we use in our furniture is FSC approved. We regularly test water based wood finishes and will make the switch as soon as we resolve issues around functionality. We powder coat our product range with VOC free powder, this reduces waste and the escape of harmful chemicals into the atmosphere. We have recently switched from bottled to filtered water and we participate in the Cycle to Work scheme.
As a modern client focused company we anticipate our customers demand for environmentally responsible products, this has led us to formalise our commitment through a policy statement.
AKA Design Ltd commit to compliance with current and future legislation. We seek to be progressive in our approach to the environment, thus we observe industry best practice and exceed where practically possible.
We have identified the following themes that it is our intention to address;
Environmental Innovation: Be creative in our approach to environmental improvement by rigorously addressing the business case for sustainable materials and processes.
Conservation of Raw Material and Energy:
Ensure the efficient use of raw material through process design and life-cycle analysis. Continue to move towards more efficient energy consumption by regularly reviewing efficiencies of machinery, transport.
Environmental Awareness Raising for Staff: Ensure that all staff are aware of our environmental commitment and what that means for their area of work.
Dealers:
Communicate our environmental policy to our dealers and investigate the appropriateness of creating a dealer policy.
Suppliers:
Communicate our environmental policy to our suppliers and encourage good environmental performance where appropriate.
Environmental Management System:
Investigate the potential for implementing an accredited environmental management system. At least creating a process to monitor and review policy commitments.