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WATER COOLER CHAT: The Importance Of Color In Office Design

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The psychology of office color brings another level of emotion to your design. Color affects the sympathetic nervous system, bringing forth (subconsciously) feelings and emotions in every individual. It’s deeper than just your brand colors and the imaging being displayed in your office. So it is no small wonder that companies and manufacturers are spending huge amounts of money to find the right colors for their products and how they are marketed. Branding and advertising designers have known and applied this theory from the start. It’s called brand immersion.

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Improving Office Dynamics By Design

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Achieving and maintaining a competitive edge with your business could be relative to the opportunities that are created through improved workplace dynamics. Designing a workplace that is productive by design is a challenge most often overlooked by business owners, but it is a service designers readily provide. Harnessing the potential of workplace design as it relates to business strategy and the bottom line is a trend that is gaining ground for the future of collaborative office design. A fashionable design that fails to serve your brand and your company mission can hinder talent acquisition, information sharing, communication, and progress.

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WATER COOLER CHAT: Maximizing The Use Of Glass In Your Office Design

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The open plan has embraced the use of office glass spaces for privacy. Even traditional offices have opted for this option in the conference room and training spaces. Transparency in the communication of business ideals and messaging comes into the physical space as a strong design element with the use of glass-walled areas. Glass is being used to reduce space but still provides a feeling of openness. The flexibility of de-mountable glass in a space is a huge contender with rental spaces and open plan spaces alike.

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The Benefits Of A Well-Designed Office Environment

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Creating a well-designed office space that encourages productivity and is collaborative for both employees and clients is a very rewarding experience. If you could imagine your perfect work environment, what would that look like? Is it open, bright and colorful? Is it muted tones, quiet and subdued? Does it have rows of open benching, down the center, with glass walled nooks for private meetings around the edges of the space? Or classic individual offices?

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Transparency At Work: Glass Around The Office

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Transparency in the workplace takes on a whole new meaning in an open office design. Creating beautiful glass-walled spaces for meetings, training or other separations within your space plan adds some sparkle and variety to the wide open space. Glass around the office can be artful and purposeful within the collaborative environment and provide a powerful vehicle for creativity.

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A Workplace Of Innovation Begins With Great Design

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The best office layouts support the interaction of your team. Providing the right tools for them to function seamlessly with each other and still perform their individual tasks is an office design challenge that is in a constant state of evolution. In a 2016 workplace innovation survey conducted by Gensler, a statistical link was discovered between the functional design of the workspace and the quality of work and innovation ascribed to it by the employees. Creating a high-performance workplace creates an ecosystem of innovation that is a direct predictor of your staff performance.

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WATER COOLER CHAT: Engaging The Five Senses

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Engaging the five senses—sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch—that humans perceive the world can elevate your office design for productivity. Even the best employers, providing the best workplace solutions—ergonomic seating, height-adjustable tables, views to the outdoors, multiple break rooms—may be missing something huge. What about the color of the walls? The smells in the office? The texture of furniture materials?

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Office Outside The Box

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Sitting behind a desk in an office has long been the definition of work. But office design is constantly trying to keep up with a mobile workforce that demands collaboration and flexibility anywhere they happen to call the office. Coworking spaces fostered the development of the open plan office and ergonomics demanded environmentally friendly materials for a cleaner office environment. Now, in a bold step outside the box, there are some experiential ideas afoot to take the office outdoors.

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WATER COOLER CHAT: Design Inspiration From A Branding Client

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Foote, Cone & Belding is a New York branding agency that guides the corporate images of companies like Diet Coke, John Deere, and Samsung Electronics understands that the strongest brands need to permeate every aspect of a corporation.

While views and references to the city were key elements in the plans to renovate three floors of the 1898 Gimbals department store, additional needs also had to be considered. The space and its furniture, for instance, had to be highly flexible and functional to accommodate collaborating teams and company growth. It also had to be comfortable for the 900+ employees, from the office furniture and lounge areas to a consistent climate and plenty of light. Get Inspired

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Agile Work Environments Balance Your Day

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Agile work environments balance your day. The genesis of agile working is doing more with less. It is defined as bringing well-matched people, processes, connectivity, technology, time and place together in the most appropriate way to achieve a particular task or goal. It is working smarter, not harder to achieve the highest potential.

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