Monthly Archives: November 2005

At work today we just moved into a joining office which is purely to be for designers. While it is really nice to get our own space, this pleasure some what faded with the bizarre logic of the layout that was created. I probably had been aiming a bit high hoping for a memory of what I think of as a design studio when I work where I do, but I still held out some slight hope. All the initial signs were good and included a simple minimal layout in white walls with plenty of space. Thing is, over the day as more and more people moved in to the space it became what one junior called "a sweat shop". I admit I was thinking the same thing as the row of juniors was shoved to one end and the studio manager postioned behind in whip cracking pose. I now face his head and my department now resembles what another junior called rightly "the reception". I was determined the solitary potted plant was going nowhere near me as I was dangerously close to sodding it all and installing a coffee machine and reception chairs. What could have been a great space has now given off such bad vibes that various requests are being made for radios due to fact pins can be heared dropping in all areas of the open floor. I hold out against this as think the addition of a radio stuck on radio 1 or 2 at just within hearing volume, will put the final nail in us being a factory floor.