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I really feel sorry for the folks who work there - It must be like working in someone else's home...

...and as someone who might visit to that office for prospective business - I'd take one look around and understand exactly why the fees are so high and how any business relationship would probably not be on a very professional level.

And I thought my home office was a train wreck

LoriFS: LOL!

Making a room full of books on shelves look like a noisy mess takes considerable effort. Clearly, no expense was spared here.

I only wish my office put as much thought into the decor -- garish or otherwise.

Instead, we have circa-1992 colors, brushed brass metals and faded prints.

I think it looks fun. I wonder if they're hiring.

This is the way people work together in production office for a film or TV shoot.

It's really a lot of fun and very productive to work this way if by nature you enjoy working in a collaborative effort on a project. If not you will hate it and kill the person next to you!

It has huge advantages to a particular creative process when you are all together. You get a lot accomplished when you are on deadline and all working towards the same effort.

The most fun is that You get to waste time collectively as a group when you all have down time.

i think it's kind of awesome. :)

Are the employees required to dress in all black every day to preserve the design's purity?

looks like it would be seriously noisy if you were trying to conduct business on the phone

I don't love pink myself, but I applaud them for being daring instead of boring.

And in my 13 years working in advertising, I have yet to hear one client say, "Wow, this space is way too creative!" I have, though, heard several clients ask, "Can I work here?"

Basically, anyone who has ever worked with an advertising agency--the best ones--would expect to see such attention given to crafting a creative environment.

I thought 2 was the SST/Concorde model info. Instead it was the boring table. Any info on the real #2??

SST was so early 60's/Mad Men!

I think the hate is coming not necessarily from the design, but by the fact that most of us don't consider work a place to display creativity--just to make enough money to display ours in a space all our own. I know it's hip to say you work in a creative environment, but I personally go to work from 9-5 simply to work and talk about the heffer who works at HR over cold burrito and snapple. I don't necessarily want any distractions from my work, nor any extra headaches from having to tolerate people's stupid individuality (I mean seriously, this is like a step up from next cubicle neighbor using nasty plastic flowers and ugly frames to display her mediocre-looking family). I have a home to do it in, keep your damn arty self to yourself and do the same.

Yeah, I hate my non-creative run-of-the-mill type work. Judge me.

Usually, when the gaze takes in in a complex image or space,it finds somewhere to settle. Mine perched for a nanosecond on the plane model and then continued to flap around the room like a trapped bat. Painful! (That said, one reason I like AT so much is the way ATers see the same thing in so many different ways. . . .)