Creative workspaces are expanding beyond small tech companies and hip startups. Corporate giants like Microsoft and Lego are balancing the factors of proximity, privacy and permission to enhance employee communication, interaction and creativity. Even as this trend of openness and employee happiness seems new, the foundations of open and creative workspaces actually may lie in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Administration Building in Buffalo which featured the first ever full story atrium/common work space, radiant heating and mobile steel furniture. - Marilyn

Creative workspaces are expanding beyond small tech companies and hip startups. Corporate giants like Microsoft and Lego are balancing the factors of proximity, privacy and permission to enhance employee communication, interaction and creativity. Even as this trend of openness and employee happiness seems new, the foundations of open and creative workspaces actually may lie in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Administration Building in Buffalo which featured the first ever full story atrium/common work space, radiant heating and mobile steel furniture.

- Marilyn

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Microsoft, hard as they try, just doesn’t convince me. This ad is clever as hell, and it plays into their branding nicely, creatively. But none of that matters to me because I don’t like their products. They feel cheap, are over-designed, and don’t make my life any easier (quite the opposite, if my memory of screaming at inanimate objects is correct).

So at the end of the day, what does marketing, advertising and branding matter if your products aren’t up to snuff?

Still, a nice ad.

-Ben

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