June 16, 2007
An amazing office
Check out this office space -- done for a gaming company by Because We Can:Recent Work
An 3,000 sq. ft. office interior designed and built for Three Rings Design, Inc. based upon The Nautilus from the novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".
There are several work areas, with complex screens separating them and plenty of Victorian submarine trappings. Each work area has between 5 and 7 desks in it, depending on the area's size. Each desk is unique, and was actually either drawn or chosen by the employee who sits there. Everyone got to make their own desk!
Once the space was designed and modeled in Autodesk Revit, we took the 3D models for the simple desk you see below, and broke it down into Adobe Illustrator "templates". These templates were flat outlines of the customizable parts of the desk. Three Ring's team of talented artists imported the Illustrator templates we made into Flash, and drew what they wanted their desk to look like over the top of our outlines. We then took those vector drawings, cleaned them up, tweaked them to make them work as desks, and fed them to the CNC to produce the actual final custom desk.
It was a great collaborative process, and made the totally custom desks inexpensive enough to be affordable. They cost a little more than a nice desk from Ikea, and way less then office cubes.
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