Workspace of the Week: Defining an open office

This week’s Workspace of the Week is 037′s damask dream:

The reason I chose this week’s workspace is because it does such an amazing job at establishing a sense of personal space in a sea of open offices. Anyone who has ever worked in an open office knows that personal items have a way of disappearing or migrating to other desks. In open offices, you also often feel like you can’t express yourself in a way that still deems you as being professional. This office, however, by simply using a red damask fabric, solves the problems I just mentioned and many others.

From 037′s image descriptions:

The fabric is ordered from eBay (just search Red Damask), and is glued with Super 77 Adhesive to a giant 42″ x 18″ mouse pad rubber I bought from Canal Rubber in NYC. The mouse pad is so huge I don’t need to worry about moving my hands off a mouse pad anymore!

I then scanned and traced the fabric pattern in Illustrator and created a PNG file for wallpaper.

Even the Chumby received a makeover with a pattern from Make Fun Studios.

Want to have your own workspace featured in Workspace of the Week? Submit a picture to the Unclutterer flickr pool. Check it out because we have a nice little community brewing there. Also, don’t forget that workspaces aren’t just desks. If you’re a cook, it’s a kitchen; if you’re a carpenter, it’s your workbench.

Posted by Erin on Dec 4, 2009 | Comments

7 comments posted

  1. Posted by Molly - 12/04/2009

    I think this is really creative approach to personalizing a workspace.

  2. Posted by matt! - 12/04/2009

    I like the office, especially since she made something so normal look totally awesome. And the giant mouse pad is a great idea for anyone using large or multiple monitors.

    It makes me want to go to that Make Fun place and make my own!

  3. Posted by Mikey's mom - 12/04/2009

    Oh, Chumby, had never heard of it! Now there’s another uni-masquerading-as-multi tasker that I might want! Cute!

  4. Posted by SB - 12/06/2009

    Beautiful.

  5. Posted by Amanda - 12/08/2009

    Brava!

  6. Posted by EsdrasGrau - 12/09/2009

    Remind me the Japanese surrealist artist Yayoi Kusama :p

  7. Posted by Pak-Kei Mak - 12/30/2009

    Thanks a lot to Unclutterer to feature my office space! What a nice Christmas gift surprise! :D

    Feel free to check out my Flickr and blog or mail me for questions on this.

    @EsdrasGrau: Hahaha, that’s a great compliment to me. (despite she is a bit nuts.) I think I’m becoming her…

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