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I Wish I Worked There! A Look Inside the Most Creative Spaces in Business

I Wish I Worked There! A Look Inside the Most Creative Spaces in Business

by EdwardDenison (Photographer), KurstyGroves (Author), WillKnight (Author)

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    Hardcover 2010

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Synopsis

I Wish I Worked There! reveals the world's most inspiring and innovative places to work, investigating twenty famous brands that place innovation at the heart of their culture. Easy-to-adopt principles facilitate the design, creation, or finding of spaces that are conducive to different types of creative activity, namely: Reflection, Collaboration, Stimulation, and Play. Never before has a title looked specifically at how the working environment fosters the flow of ideas from both practical and emotional perspectives -- with business results.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 19 Feb 2010
ISBN 10: 0470713836
ISBN 13: 9780470713839

Media Reviews
'...[goes] behind the scenes of 20 famous brands...provides an insight into what it is that makes a space really work...' (Design Week, June 2010).

'...reveals some of the world's most inspiring and innovative places to work...includes easy-to-adopt principles...' (DeZeen.com, May 2010).

'...a valuable insight into the most innovative companies around today...some realistic and easy tips to follow for small home-offices.' (In Design, May 2010).

'...a peek inside the most inspiring work sapces, showing how certain initiatives...encourage creativity and emotional engagement.' (Psychologies, June 2010).

`...highlights some of the most imaginative and effective workplaces around the world, featuring big names such as Google, Nike, Bloomberg...' (FM World, SEptember 2010).

Author Bio
Kursty Groves is a design & innovation consultant, presenter and co-founder of Headspace, a consultancy specialising in sourcing, designing and managing creative spaces for business. Whilst researching this book, Kursty learned that even the most creative organisations still need to go off-site for inspiration and has since launched the creative venue finder www.spacehopper.com. Kursty has also taken her experience to a wider audience through broadcasting. Her television credits include: BBC's That's Genius!, Young Foresight, Teachers' TV and Channel Four's Design Challenge.

Will Knight is a freelance designer and illustrator, whose rich experience ranges from product development of new telecoms devices to character design and storyboarding for animation. His clients include global brands, leading advertising and media agencies, design consultancies, animation and film studios. Will is also the founder of Brew, a London- and New York-based creative collective.