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25 Inspirational Offices

Tom.Walker — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:40:13 +0000

1. Red Bull Australia, Sydney

Red Bull has established a number of inspirational office spaces around the world, challenging architects to re-imagine contemporary working environments in each project. Responding to this brief, Sheargold design practice created the concept for the company’s Australian headquarters in Alexandria. The complex includes a cricket pitch, rooftop bar and informal meeting rooms were staff converge and collaborate.

2. Pallotta TeamWorks Headquarters, Los Angeles

Clive Wilkinson Architects designed Pallota TeamWorks headquarters in Los Angeles. The designers were working on a restrictive budget to create the offices within a warehouse, making innovative use of the space by creating seven tented-villages and executive offices housed in shipping containers.

3. TBWA/Chiat/Day Office, New York City

Gaetano Pesce’s design for the TBWA/Chiat/Day advertising agency’s offices in New York aimed at rejecting the formalities of traditional office layouts and devising an inspiring playpen environment. The agency operates without hierarchy or individual desk spaces; employees work wherever they want each day, and the space encourages impromptu encounters and collaboration.

4. Macquarie Group Limited, Sydney

Clive Wilkinson Architects also designed Macquarie Group’s Australian offices in Shelley Street, Sydney, creating a large-scale space with transparent workstations, light-filled plazas and carbon neutral technologies,

5. Selgas Cano Architecture, Madrid

Iwan Baan’s design for Selgas Cano architectural practice in Madrid is a wonderful woodland building with the staff’s workstations situated below ground level under a glass canopy.

6. Innovation Lab, Copenhagen

Bosch and Fjord’s ‘Plug and Play’ designs for the Innovation Lab in Copenhagen are inventive concepts for portable, modular workstations constructed from flat-pack units according to a company’s requirements.

7. Diane von Furstenberg Headquarters, New York

Architects Amale Andraos and Dan Wood created the Manhattan headquarters of apparel designer Diane von Furstenberg. The design is a stunning renewal of a heritage building with a landscaped roof and maximum use of natural light by skylights, hanging crystals and glass stairwells.

8. Andreas Maks’ Work Station

Designer Andreas Mak goes for a sleek minimalist approach for his home workstation; the dark wooden floor nicely compliments the white walls and furniture.

9. Robert A. M. Stern, Architect, Manhattan

Architecture and interior designer Robert AM Stern contrived his own rooftop shed high above 34th Street in New York. The structure incorporates a bathroom, kitchenette, office space and opens onto a decked patio.

10. Google Engineering Headquarters, Zurich

Google’s European engineering headquarters in Zurich were designed to embody the company’s unconventional business model. The offices feature ‘meeting pods’ in the shapes of igloos and Swiss chalets, fireman poles to access different floors and a playground-style slide offering entrance to the cafeteria.

11. Three Rings Design, San Francisco

San Francisco game studio Three Rings Design have whimsical offices inspired by the novels of Jules Verne, Victorian parlours and pirate ships, with a hidden room secreted behind a book shelf and games consoles concealed in a treasure chest.

12. Lego Development Department, Billund

Bosch and Fjord’s design for Lego’s development department in Billund, Denmark, aims to stimulate creativity with spaces of varying degrees of formality, from elegant conference chambers to playrooms for brainstorming.

13. MindLab, Copenhagen

The Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs in Copenhagen is home to the MindLab, an inspiring meeting facility aimed at citizen-centred innovation. At the centre of the complex is an egg-shaped meeting room with all-round whiteboard walls for sketching out ideas.

14. Robert Couturier, Interior Designer and Architect

Office spaces don’t necessarily have to focus on technology and work tools. This is the office of interior designer Robert Couturier, with the luxuriously classic decor and furnishings reflecting his professional practice.

15. Stefan Didak’s Work Station

Self-styled entrepreneur Stefan Didak’s striking home office setup boasts twelve synched monitors, thirteen servers and four laptops.

16. Vitra Headquarters Basel

This office space is at the headquarters of designer furniture manufacturer Vitra, in Basel. The workstation features Enzo Mari’s Formosa calendar and Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec’s ‘Algue’, a screen of snap assembly plastic seaweed.

17. Googleplex, Mountain View

Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Googleplex, is a sprawling complex created to inspire the company’s staff. There are bicycles to travel between meetings, dogs are allowed in the offices, and the buildings feature massage chairs, yurts, huddle rooms, pool and ping pong tables, volleyball courts and a climbing wall.

18. Pixar Studios, Emeryville

The offices of Pixar Studios in Emeryville are designed to get the most out of their animation artists with inspiring open spaces, relaxation areas, shed-style cubicles and careful use of mood lighting to inspire creativity.

19. Monitor Group, San Francisco

Sasaki Architect’s design for Monitor Group’s San Francisco offices employ’s a grid of ‘cross streets’ and ‘intersections’, with a cafeteria and library resource hub forming the central meeting point.

20. Log Cabin Office

This homely wood cabin office space offers a calming environment in which to work.

21. Ilse Media, Utrecht

Ilse Media’s offices in Utrecht employ an outlandish design aesthetic in garish colours and decor inspired by retro 8-bit computer games.

22. Shed Office Space

When working independently it’s important to create an inspiring, and therefore productive, working environment. This multi-purpose shed features a desk space and relaxation area with musical instruments.

23. Disney Store Headquarters, Pasadena

Disney Store’s headquarters in Pasadena are an architectural wonderland featuring cartoon colours, honeycomb structures and walls that can be dismantled with the huge ‘bricks’ acting as seating for visitors.

24. Simon de Pury, Chairman of Phillips de Pury & Company Auction House

This office belongs to Simon de Pury, Chairman of Phillips de Pury and Company Auction House, and features a fabulous flowing desk and bookshelf sculpture designed by artist Vito Acconci.

25. Williams Group, Grand Rapids

Williams Group’s offices in Grand Rapids, Michigan, won the AIA Grand Valley Honor Award in Interior Architecture for their airy, inspiring design.

All of these offices demonstrate how a working environment can be shaped to inspire creativity, whatever the scale or nature of the work that takes place within them, through beautiful and innovative architecture and decoration.

Photography Inspiration: 50 Pictures Dedicated to Love

Paulius Rašytinis — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:48:28 +0000

Year of the Tiger: 80+ Brilliant Photos with Mighty Tiger

Web Hunky — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:59:45 +0000

Apparently he enjoyed this collection, did you?

Inspiration: Best T-shirt Shops – Worldwide Delivery

Paulius Rašytinis — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:00:49 +0000

1. laFraise

T-Shirt Prices:Â 19-24$ (+Shipping),Â Â Assortment: ~200 tees,Â Â Paypal: No

Created in 2004, laFraise is now one of the Europe’s largest t-shirt design competition and receives many daily submissions from graphic designers and illustrators all over the world.Â The designer of the chosen artwork receives â‚¬1,000 once he has signed the contract, which temporarily gives us the right to print it on a limited amount of 500 T-Shirts. The winning designer also receives two shirts.Â Special competitions may have different conditions.

2. RedisWhite (faithfull & stylish)

T-Shirt Prices:Â 20$ (+Shipping),Â Â Assortment: ~50 tees,Â Â Paypal: Yes

RedisWhite products are fresh designer tees. The price of standart tee may rarely start from 12$. Red is White cannot issue refunds, but if you send them back a new, unwashed tee in its original condition and packaging they will credit your account. If you receive the wrong item or if the item is defective, you can send it back regular mail and they will credit your account with the postage they see on your envelope.

3. Threadless (Nude No More)

T-Shirt Prices:Â 15$-25$ (+Shipping),Â Â Assortment: ~500 tees,Â Â Paypal:Â No

Threadless works with artists around the world to produce amazing tee shirt designs. Everyone is able to submit their ideas here. If Your idea is selected for print, you’ll receive 2000$ in cash instantly and many more prices to come. Threadless has 12 Club, which members get exclusive new collection tees every month cheaper than basic customers.

4. DesignbyHumans

T-Shirt Prices: 19-25$ (+Shipping),Â Assortment: ~200 tees,Â Â Paypal: No

There are many ways to credit Your account at DBH.Â Send them a photo of yourself wearing a DBH shirt that you purchased on their site. For every qualifying photo you will get $1 DBH dollar added to your account. Refer people to the site by using your personal affiliate URL and get $2 DBH dollars added to your account for every referral that results in a sale. Artists that winÂ Shirt of the Day and/or Shirt of the Month contests receives $250 DBH dollars for each award.

5. BustedTees

T-Shirt Prices: 20$ (+Shipping),Â Assortment: ~400 tees,Â Â Paypal: Yes

If You buy 4 Shirts at BustedTees, You get free shipping. There are also free T-Shirts available for some lucky countries. BustedTees always runs an 8$ sale, but usually no small or medium size tees for this category. There is a 12$ price for recently added products. The shop offers free returns, if You made a mistake.

More Tees:

ShirtFight [Very creative, 100% refund or exchange for any reason of return] [~18$]
Uneetee [Mystery shirts for 6$, weekly contests, free shipping US if 60$, guaranteed money back] [~22$]
CafePress [Huge collection, impossible to view them all] [~23$]
NerdyShirts [Familiar to BustedTees, Paypal, free returns] [~20$]
Rumplo [12 000 t-shirts, browse by colors, ] [~25-40$]
GlennzTees [Gift sertificates, voting for new designs] [~20$]
Screened [You can Design custom t-shirts online at Skreened] [~24$]
TypeTees [Original slogan tees by Threadless, Submit a slogan and get paid ] [~15$]
RedBubble [Many colours to choose from] [~24$]
Spreadshirt [Another huge collection, tees are expensive, customization available] [~23-41$]
Zazzle [Many customization options, variation in size and style] [~20-50$]
Polo-shirts [Well-priced blank tees and polos, good for custom creations] [~1$-5$]
CharGrilled [free shipping worldwide, buy 3 - get one free, 5 friends - 10% off] [~25$]
Xkcd [Shop of the blogger, who illustrates his thoughts by drawing funny comics] [~19$]

Or Google for more:Â Funny Tees,Â Â Cool Tees,Â Â Custom Design Tees

Photography Inspiration: The Cutiest Little Creatures

admin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:30:42 +0000

The Cutiest Little Creatures

Inspiration: Animals and Photography

admin — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:18:02 +0000

Graphic design inspiration: Jimiyo

admin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:03:11 +0000

Graphic designer: Jimiyo

Inspiring illustrations, graphic design works by Jimiyo. Visit his portfolio.

Graphic design inspiration: NIARK1

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:34:53 +0000

Graphic design inspiration: NIARK1

Creative works by graphic designer from Paris, France. He’s making flyers, illustrations, characters, stickers, covers, logotypes, web designs and much more. Visit NIARK1 portfolio or blog.

Illustration inspiration: nekro

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:11:10 +0000

Illustrator and Designer: nekro

Beautiful illustrations by graphic designer nekro. Visit website for more stunning works. Via Designthatinspireus.

Painting inspiration: Wen-Xi Chen

admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:18:55 +0000

Digital paintings: Wen-Xi Chen

Impressive digital paintings by Wen-Xi Chen visit her website for more inspirational drawings.
Realistic and creative digital portraits.