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10 Office Design Tips to Foster Creativity. Design Matters On vacation, would you ever choose a hotel with fluorescent lighting and drab grey rooms?

10 Office Design Tips to Foster Creativity

The answer is obvious. But plenty of small-business owners forget simple things when it comes to office design. Exactly how do the smartest, most… more IMAGE: Turnstone Let the Inmates Run the Asylum Allowing your employees to bring in personal items, family photos (or even their dogs), costs nothing--and provides instant benefits. Play Anthropologist How do you choose the environment that's best for your team? Adopt Urban Zoning. 15 stimulating design offices to stir the senses. In the design world, office design is increasingly becoming a big deal.

15 stimulating design offices to stir the senses

For some creative agencies, long gone are the days of dull and drab cubicle spaces, with employers realising that creative surroundings can have a direct effect on their employees' creativity. Whether it's a tranquil setting, games area, or amazing design office mural, there's something about these offices that is designed to help stir the creative juices. Here we showcase 16 awesome design offices, which have been developed to accommodate all the creative needs of an artistic workforce. Which one would you like to work at? Award-winning New York City-based design and branding firm ICRAVE combine minimalist aspects into their amazing offices. The 8,000-square-foot space on Madison Square Park boasts flexible workspaces to encourage employee interaction and collaboration.

[via Design Milk] Illustration. 16 Origami Pieces to Buy or DIY for Your Home. Ahh, the magical decorating powers of origami.

16 Origami Pieces to Buy or DIY for Your Home

The 100 best iPad apps. We've gathered together the very best iPad apps in Apple's App Store – and many are free.

The 100 best iPad apps

You're sure to find a timelessly brilliant app that meets your needs, saving you the hassle of searching through the hundreds of thousands available. Whether you're looking to design on your iPad, carry out research, find inspiration, or improve your task management and productivity there are tons of iPad apps in our list. So here goes, in no particular order... 01. Adobe Capture CC. Watch 'The Maker': A Stop-Motion Short About Life, Loss, and Not Sex Dolls. Paper art: 35 beautiful examples.

We may live in a digital world, but our love affair with paper art has by no means diminished.

Paper art: 35 beautiful examples

Folded into origami and kirigami, laser-cut, layered and made into sculptures, paper artists can transform a humble sheet of old tree into a spectacular artwork. Here are some great of examples of paper art being used imaginatively within contemporary design, giving new life to one of the most ancient arts. You're sure to find the inspiration you're looking for... 01. Self Preserving The Self Preserving campaign from cosmetics company Lush to promote its use of natural ingredients saw shop windows all over Europe fill with epic paper art. A special hero installation in Lush's flagship store in London's Oxford Street even moved, masterminded by 3D designer Thomas Forsyth. 02. Paper art duo Julie Wilkinson and Joyanne Horscroft aka Makerie Studio design and create showpieces for window installations, advertising and editorial clients. 03. 04. 05.

Fantastic Ornamental Paper Quilling by Yulia Brodskaya. Yulia Brodskaya is an artist, born in Moscow (Russia), now based in the UK.

Fantastic Ornamental Paper Quilling by Yulia Brodskaya

She used to be interested in various practices like textile painting, origami, collage and fine art. After she did an MA in Graphic Communication at the University of Hertfordshire, she experimented with her various interests. She combined the ones she liked most which includes typography, paper and highly detailed hand-made craft objects. The technique used to make these pieces of art is called paper quilling, also known as paper filigree, paper scrolling or paper rolling. With this innovative way of using paper to create illustrations she earned a reputation and now creates highly detailed paper designs for clients all over the world.

But does it float. Ancient Chinese geography - TEDb. Ancient Chinese geography Objective Students will demonstrate their knowledge of Ancient Chinese geography by forming tableaus to represent Chinese geography passed down from the Chinese Creation Myth.

Ancient Chinese geography - TEDb

Materials Needed. How to tie a Turk's Head. Uses: The Turk's Head (ABOK # 1303 - 5, p 232) is widely used as a slide, or woggle, for scout's scarves.

How to tie a Turk's Head

Tying it: The Turk's Head is usually tied around the hand. For the demonstration here, the braiding was performed round a piece of wood and the work was rotated as the braiding advanced. Pinterest. Pin by Mari Gjetmundsen on making and creating. Pinterest. Pinterest. "Exploding Box" Class... Exploding Box Class - "An Exploding Year" - by Anso Please feel free to use these instructions to make your own boxes.

"Exploding Box" Class...

You are free to link to this page from any forum etc if you wish. Please do NOT copy this information and/or photos to use for your own classes/forums/webpages without permission. Please also note that I'm not claiming that I have invented the exploding box, but these simple step-by-step instructions and photos are mine.Class Supply list: Pinterest. Esther Hörchner Illustrator. Esther H rchner Illustrator.