Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. ∼Eliel Saarinen
So somewhat related to my previous post regarding environmental influence on creativity, This Aint No Disco is a cool site dedicated to featuring unique and inspiring workplaces.
Go and take a visit and enjoy (or even drool over) some of the workplaces listed.
I’ve always hated fluorescent lighting, even to the point of climbing on a chair at work to twist the bulbs until they turned off. Is there a correlation between your physical workplace, or any environment for that matter, and your level of creativity? I’ve always felt so and a recent article over at Scientific American spends some time looking at the theory.
So what’s your take? Does it matter if your working in a government-like building dressed in gray and flooded in fluorescence, or a swank and colorful loft soaked in incandescence and adorned with bean bags?
So the nice people at Mozilla are renaming Firefox 3.1 (beta 3) to 3.5, maybe due to the absolute avalanche of newly supported features. Go have a look for yourself. I personally am stoked, espcially about the downloadable font CSS2 support!