Design in your work space

Inspiration at work through nice design

Where you work makes a large difference to how you work. 

The number of corporate offices I have worked in that felt like a cross between a sheep market and a building which is running on emergency lighting (i.e. dim and just light enough to escape) still amazes me.

In their desperate bid to save money, those companies managed to make their offices somewhere that I didn't want to be and where I felt as though I could never be creative.

The difference between an office space where you feel invigorated rather than crushed is very important. Dull furnishings and dim lighting are not conducive to productive work, especially if you are in a highly creative role.

When I came across Design Public, I thought how good it would be to have some of their furniture in my work space to make it more than just a square room with a computer in it. For instance, why have shelving that looks like something from a warehouse when you can have something like their 'Brave Space Design Bamboo Stagger' (pictured above) shelving which would immediately give life to a dull office?

And yet, the most important furniture in an office is my chair. My work involves a lot sitting down and the number of times I have complained at work at about an uncomfortable chair only to be given lesson by the 'ergonomics expert' in how to make 100 adjustments to it to make it something which didn't make my legs go numb I can't begin to recall.

Complaining about your chair seems pedantic but the difference between a good and a bad chair at work can be noticeable to the amount of work you can get through and how fresh you feel.

In this age of information, making a workspace conducive to work is important. The more I can concentrate on my work rather than how much my back is aching, the better.