At my previous job (an ad agency) we had this old historic building converted into a modern workplace. The outside of the building was painted neon yellow, red and teal and all 13 rooms inside were painted a different vibrantly, annoying color (I believe this had to do with a color specialist recommending vibrant colors to boost low morales, but I digress).
The work area for the designers (including myself until last week when I quit) consisted of one medium sized room containing 3 desks and all the rest of our crap. There was little work space, our printers were located in a different room and there was zero privacy. At the very least we convinced management to go with white and teal walls in our area -as not to affect our design work. The previous choice was hot pink and red.
As for the rest of the building, we had two receptionists on the ground floor, eight creatives on the second floor and the president and his secretary on the third floor. As you can see, the creatives were held in high regard.
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At my previous job (an ad agency) we had this old historic building converted into a modern workplace. The outside of the building was painted neon yellow, red and teal and all 13 rooms inside were painted a different vibrantly, annoying color (I believe this had to do with a color specialist recommending vibrant colors to boost low morales, but I digress).
The work area for the designers (including myself until last week when I quit) consisted of one medium sized room containing 3 desks and all the rest of our crap. There was little work space, our printers were located in a different room and there was zero privacy. At the very least we convinced management to go with white and teal walls in our area -as not to affect our design work. The previous choice was hot pink and red.
As for the rest of the building, we had two receptionists on the ground floor, eight creatives on the second floor and the president and his secretary on the third floor. As you can see, the creatives were held in high regard.