Office culture starts with the office environment, but revamping your office is more than just throwing up a few graphics on the walls. This slide deck serves up food for thought on 6 key areas of office design you may not have thought about. Adapted from: http://www.vinylimpression.co.uk/blogs/blog/35605121-6-things-to-consider-when-revamping-your-office

1. 6 Things to Consider When Revamping
Your Office
Where art and psychology collide to
boost productivity.
So you’ve decided to give your office space a nice lift? Interior graphics are the
perfect way to bring life to bare walls. To make sure you get it right, here are six
important things that will guarantee success.

2. 1. DEFINE THE PURPOSE
What are you specifically looking to
achieve and who are you trying to
communicate with? Unlike domestic
interior design, the finished look is very
rarely the only desired outcome of a
workplace branding project. You need to
ask yourself:
• Is the design purposed for staff areas?
• Does it need to highlight culture and
values?
• Will the design be client facing and need
to showcase the brand’s offering?
By doing this, you’re taking a step back and
asking “Why”, before “What”. This is
crucial.
This gives you a holistic understanding of
the project and will guide you in the styling
of what wall and window graphics to use
and where to put these design elements.

3. 2. CREATE SPACE DEFINITION
All offices, including open plan workspaces,
have different areas and zones within
them, which are important to highlight.
These spaces can be defined by their
physical walls, their purpose or by how
they are organically used; spaces aren’t
always used for their established purpose.
It is fundamental to analyse how these
different areas of the office are used, so
that you can establish individual sub-
spaces that may have differing
requirements you will need to address.
However this is not to say that they should
be branded as individual units, as all design
needs to be considered as a whole entity.

4. 3. FIND YOUR VIEWPOINTS
In most office spaces you will be able to
see several key surfaces that you have
highlighted for branding from one
viewpoint. Stand in these positions. Picture
how the room will look with wall art.
These viewpoints are often doorways or
entrance spaces, but can also be the
middle of an open plan office, so it’s
important to physically wander around in
order to locate your viewpoints.
NB. Consistency in design is not limited to
matching exactly, but allows for elements
of its look and feel to be extracted to
create a complimentary feature that works
both alone and alongside its pair.

5. 4. UNDERSTAND WHITE SPACE
BALANCE
Don’t use every available space. The use of
white, blank, negative or void space is
essential to showcase the graphics to full
effect. Put simply, blank space is your
friend!
Overcrowding specific areas can reduce
the impact of a design and can give a look
and feel that is messy, cheap or sensually
overpowering; undermining the aims of
the rebrand itself.
However, this general design principle is
dependent on the desired outcomes and
can be ‘broken’ to create specific effects.

6. 5. FIND YOUR INCONSPICUOUS
FEATURES
Understand the whole picture. As part of
any office rebrand there can be several
features of the office that won’t change,
which if ignored could negatively impact
the finished look and feel of the space.
The most commonly overlooked feature is
flooring, specifically carpet, which can
come in almost every colour and texture
under the sun, which understandably could
clash with your choice of architectural
graphics.
As a result we always recommend you take
a literal step back and view the space from
a distance, taking into consideration all
fixtures and fittings that aren’t changing
and factor them into your design brief
before making any decisions.

7. 6. CONSIDER DIFFERENT TEXTURES
The use of texture in interior design
defines the look of a space and can be
utilised to:
• Create balance
• Provide visual weight
• Project a perceived sense of touch
• Portray specific attributes (i.e. quality)
Vinyl wall graphics and wallpapers are
available in an almost endless variety of
textures that can be used to create a
number of finishes within your workspace.
Textured wallpapers on the other hand
create a perceived sense of touch when
viewed and as a result can project or alter
an interpretation of a space, often
softening the room’s feel. Texture has to
be considered from a holistic standpoint,
as it must be integrated with the rest of
the design to facilitate the end result you
are after.
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8. This presentation is adapted from an original article
that can be found on the Vinyl Impression blog.
Vinyl Impression is a design-focused surface graphics
specialist that produces superior quality large format
digital prints.
At Vi, we partner with you to transform your walls,
windows and floors by using skillfully designed vinyl
wall stickers, murals, decals, wall art transfers and
coverings.
Our Graphic solutions are designed and produced to
give an outstanding finish, allowing your space to
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