Here at Billups Design, we’ve been decorating and configuring our new offices. It’s been fun and challenging. During the process, I found this very thoughtful and insightful blog entry on the art of decorating a creative agency. To read the article in whole, visit Whistle Through Your Comb.
What struck me most was his thesis that an agency shouldn’t spend mountains of cash to ‘communicate’ creativity to clients and new recruits versus creating a space that ‘promotes’ creativity. Glass walls, expensive lobbies, fixed furniture, ultra clean areas – not promoting creativity. Whiteboards, floating fixtures, movable divider walls, common areas, and even a tolerance for some mess all do.
In his words: “I think many workers are frustrated with pristine offices. Outside of an individual’s office, most pristine offices do not provide their creative workforce the community space to be messy and keep it messy. This is confusing message in a business that lives or dies based on creativity.”
We’re trying to stick to this here at BD so our team feels inspired when they come to work and ready to make a mess.
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JavaScript is great for user interactivity.. . PHP is more for server-side interaction, which is useful with forms and such. Also, you need to have PHP installed on your computer before you can use it in HTML pages.. . XML is mainly used for information; it’s not used all that much in terms of displaying things in HTML.. . I’d recommend CSS as well (though not technically a scripting language), as it gives you richer content in terms of design.