We examine the relationship between office design and creativity with a look at inspiring spaces created by successful entrepreneurs.
After being trapped for years in grey cubicles, Spanx creator Sara Blakely created an explosion of color and creativity when she designed her company’s Atlanta, Ga. headquarters. The billionaire entrepreneur isn’t the only business owner who believes in the relationship between office design and creativity. Here are three ‘treps who have created environments that make employees love coming to work.
Since leaving her job as a communications manager at Sprint to launch the body care line Indigo Wild in 1996, Emily Voth shudders at the thought of stiff corporate culture. The renovated ice factory where her company is located smells like the all-natural soaps, lotions, and home products the company makes even though about 10 employees’ dogs roam the halls. Although loud music fills the building as it did when the building was vacant and used for raves, various parts are now soundproofed so different music can be played without disturbing others.
Calming blues and greens drench the walls, and the renovation used sustainable materials like parallams, which are beams made of repurposed wood, to create a two-storey staircase, “to let the chi flow,” she says.
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