Designer, Principal, Journalist…

By , May 24th, 2013 | NEWS | 0 Comments

A new role for Denise– just  to make sure no hour of her day (or night) goes unclaimed.  In addition to her design and management duties at O+A she will now be …

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levis facilities team cited for excellence

By , March 17th, 2011 | NEWS | 1,165 Comments

 congratulations to our friends on the real estate and facilities team at levi strauss and company for receiving the prestigious koshland award recognizing their seamless execution of …

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Want Free WiFi? Move To Santa Clara

This week, Santa Clara broke some new ground by blanketing its entire city with free public WiFi. The public WiFi network spans across 19 square miles, covering the 118,000 residents that live in the city. The free public WiFi network …

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Lost Craft // Sign Painters (Movie Trailer)

We cannot wait for this movie to come out! Truly inspiring.

More info here: Sign Painter Movie

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A Million Times // Humans Since 1982

Using almost 300 interconnected analog clocks, the Stockholm-based studio Humans Since 1982 have created a 3.5 meter long display capable of showcasing customisable texts, patterns, graphics and of course, telling the time. Entitled “A Million Times,” the piece will be …

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Bigger Is Better // Christo

He’s back and he is at it again! Big Air Package is a huge new installation by artist Christo at the Gasometer Oberhausen in Germany, a facility that holds the record as the largest disc-type gas holder in Europe….

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Paper Cuts // Eiko Ojala

Eiko Ojala is a illustrator, graphic designer and art director. He lives in Tallinn, Estonia.

See the rest of his work here: http://www.ploom.tv/

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getting above it with herman miller

A group of our designers took on the Financial District Thursday night at a showroom reception for Herman Miller on the 9th floor of the One Kearny building– …

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savory watercolors at pot & pantry

On Thursday night the O+A crew attended Kelly Waters’ opening art reception at Pot & Pantry, a kitchenware retailer in the heart of the Mission. The intimate shop, …

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yahoo’s mayer says come back to office

Workplace design made the front page of The New York Times today with a story by Claire Cain Miller and Catherine Rampell about Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s directive to her employees …

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joey shimoda 2013 designer of the year

Sub-zero wind-chill in New York City did not prevent a sizable crowd of design professionals from getting up early last week for Contract Magazine’s 34th Annual Interiors Awards Breakfast.  …

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designers rate oscar picks, find them lacking

This year’s Academy Award nominations for Production Design rated a big yawn from O+A’s in-house experts.  Taking a break recently over apple and huckleberry pie, many of our designers hadn’t seen …

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