We recently undertook a major renovation of our office space here in Toronto and are now finally finished and ready to show it off.
The all new Wishingline office
The major goals for the office were simple: increase the general workspace area, make better use of the space available, and incorporate some of the Wishingline visual identity via colours and furniture choices. Through this we ended up rewiring the entire office, put in new lighting, new windows, flooring and space-saving pocket doors. Nearly everything is new.
Jon Hicks and Shaun Inman made me do it. I couldn’t bear to use Helvetica (too obvious), and since that would probably be considered contrary to the message, it’s Paralucent for this one.
Design is more than Choosing Nice Fonts desktop wallpaper
While likely not featured in the new 2007 catalogue, Ikea may have invented the greatest little plastic tool I have ever seen. It’s ingenious in its simplicity and sheer usefulness and while I’m amazed it’s taken this long to come up with such a great piece of engineering, I’m happy someone did. It saved my fingers this past weekend.
It looks like this:
Ikea’s genius shelving unit nail holder tool
What does it do you ask? Very simple. It holds those tiny finishing nails they give you to attach the back board to many of their pieces of furniture such as bookcases, cabinets and wardrobes. No more hitting your fingers with the hammer. No more crooked nails breaking through the back of the bookcase in the wrong spot. Perfect every time.