This year the Pantone Colour Institute has unveiled “Peach Fuzz” as the Colour of the Year, introducing a warm and comforting palette that promises to reshape the ambiance and dynamics within the professional sphere. The colour “Peach Fuzz,” with its velvety gentleness, embodies a spectrum of emotions, evoking feelings of gentleness, warmth, coziness and energy, […]
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Soundproofing: A crucial element of good workplace design
A well designed, employee centric workplace is incomplete without the right acoustics. Sounds drastic, doesn’t it? Overdramatic? Not really. Our immediate environment has a huge impact on us and our health and wellbeing. With so much importance being accorded to employee health and wellbeing, it is time that we shine the light on the sound […]
Lighting & the Workplace
It has been proven that lighting has a vital effect on an employee’s productivity & efficiency. Given the physical and psychological effects lighting has on human beings, poor lighting conditions can not only lead to exhaustion, lethargy, irritability, but can also act as a trigger point to raising the incidence of conflicts among employees in […]
Organic design at the Workplace
Organic design is a non-conformist natural language that introduces organic environments indoors with contours, patterns, textures, or numerical arrangements. It is yet another way of bringing nature indoors and enhancing wellbeing in a built space, contributing towards a more engaging and healthier workspace. An important aspect of organic design is the use of natural materials […]
Pantone Colour of 2023
Pantone Colour Institute has been influencing all aspects of colour design and trends for years. Every year the institute comes out with a colour for the year, and this year’s colour is “Viva Magenta”, a colour that signifies hope for a bright year. Hope & Optimism! An assertive colour, Viva Magenta is defined with positive […]
Redefining The Workplace: Privacy & Collaboration
Workplace design has witnessed a drastic transformation over the past decade. In the post pandemic situation, the focus is more on providing a work environment that is fluid and creates a balance without any regimental demarcations. In fact, design trends of 2021 portend towards making employees more comfortable and providing them with a work environment […]
Retro Design Trends
Workplace – The term often connotes a place that is serene and designed minimally with clean lines, in order to facilitate unwavering focus. Well, times are changing, and so are the expectations from the workplace how it should look and feel like. Today, a large number of companies are willing to try out workplace designs […]
Neighbourhood Spaces
The 1st quarter of 2020 brought about a radical shift in the way workplaces function, with close to 70% of the workforce switching to a Work-From-Home format almost overnight. While this led business owners to contemplate the need for office space, it also made everyone realise the importance of one-on-one interactions, and camaraderie, especially that […]
Design Trends 2021
As we usher in 2021, with the arrival of the vaccine and its rollout, there is much hope in the air. A hope that we might end up getting back to new normalcy sooner than expected. New normalcy because the way we live, work, interact has all undergone a change. In the case of office design, foretelling the […]