It’s Design Lobster #37 and I present to you a mooning gargoyle and a silver medallion. Something shiny, something rude 😜 By the way… I am taking part in the inaugural OnDeck Writer’s Fellowship over the next eight weeks. I’ll be thinking a lot about how to make Design Lobster better so keep an eye out for new stuff.
Love the mooning gargoyle :) The materials question made me think about how we work. In offices, 99% of surface materials that we touch and see are artificial. Even in this new Zoom world, we're looking at plastic and glass. I think the virtual backdrops showing nature in the background are actually helpful even if fake looking sometimes. But how much better would be enjoy work sitting on granite rocks listening to the sound of a river flowing by us.
Hey Mo, glad you liked the gargoyle! You raise a good point about artificial environments. There's a lot research about how exposure to nature improves our health - I think the millennial houseplant craze is related to this. I wonder whether that trend will go further and we'll see entirely natural work environments.
Love the mooning gargoyle :) The materials question made me think about how we work. In offices, 99% of surface materials that we touch and see are artificial. Even in this new Zoom world, we're looking at plastic and glass. I think the virtual backdrops showing nature in the background are actually helpful even if fake looking sometimes. But how much better would be enjoy work sitting on granite rocks listening to the sound of a river flowing by us.
Hey Mo, glad you liked the gargoyle! You raise a good point about artificial environments. There's a lot research about how exposure to nature improves our health - I think the millennial houseplant craze is related to this. I wonder whether that trend will go further and we'll see entirely natural work environments.