Inspiration: Bringing the Great Outdoors, Indoors
I recently put every office photo on Office Snapshots into picasa and began scrolling through looking for some themes (don’t ask why it took so long). Oddly enough, the first thing I noticed was not what groups of offices had, but rather what they didn’t have: plants. Clearly people like the idea of greenery insideRead the Rest…
RESOURCE: How to Evaluate the Success of Office Design
Last week, we looked at some general information about cost/benefit analysis and office design. In order to keep that discussion going, it will be helpful to have some tools in hand for evaluating the success of office design. In one study, Knoll essentially defines the goal of office design as being an “…to create officeRead the Rest…
Inspiration: Interesting Uses of Wood Throughout The Office
Was browsing around the image database and threw together a gallery of offices that use wood in ways not specifically named ‘floors’. Basically the idea you’ll see is that you can legitimately find wood off the side of the street, in junk heaps, on log piles, or even your local hardware store, then put itRead the Rest…
Thinking Through Hot Desking In An Office
Only several years ago, it was normal to see 1:1 ratios between employees and cubicles. But as business practices and office designs modernize, the number of employees per desk is actually going up. One contributing factor is Hot Desking. The idea behind hot desking is that each employee is not assigned a particular desk, butRead the Rest…
Inspiration: Cargo Containers In Offices
Cargo containers are legitimately one of the most important inventions in the world. For years they have been using their standard size and shape to help make shipping easier, but who’d have known they would one day be used as a non-standard design element in office design? Probably not Malcolm McLean. Not totally convinced? ThanRead the Rest…
