When Bloomberg/Businessweek contacted us to take part in their “How To” issue– now out on newstands and up on the web– our Design Director Denise Cherry had a great kill-two-birds-with-one-stone idea. Our Director of Projects Perry Stephney’s office had become a formidable thicket of architectural drawings, stacked project files, buried furniture and assorted impedimenta. Denise hit on the notion of kicking him out, stripping the thicket and giving his space a stylish makeover– the whole process recorded on time lapse video by Jasper Sanidad.
Two offices took shape for Businessweek. The one that remained after the photo shoot was “The Industrialist” design, a key feature of which was a back wall painstakingly assembled by our in-house wheatpaste crew: Denise, Liz Guerrero, Olivia Ward and Will Chu. We began with a blank canvas…
… to which our team applied retro graphics from old Life Magazines and The New York Times…
… gradually climbing up the wall as Perry looked on (approvingly?)…
… until it reached un-dreamed of heights (of coolness, we mean)…
… and the wheatpaste team, their work done, celebrated with pizza and beer (not pictured).
The results may be seen on the links above: cool new digs for Perry, international design stardom for Denise and for Businessweek a hot feature that hits the sweet spot of every magazine’s target demographic– the young urban professional with an eye for style.
Photos by Jasper Sanidad
