A new 11,000 sq. ft. office marks the latest chapter in our lifecycle as we seek to house up to 85 people; and evolve from a homegrown shop to an international one. Besides workspace design that's bespoke to the way we work, on the wishlist was also a stand-out feature in the reception area. We drew inspiration from floor-standing welcome boards, ubiquitous TVs on CNN/Bloomberg, multi-clocks on different time zones, and artwork behind the receptionist. Our internal brief was to create a single platform to reinterpret all these, appropriate to our nature as an interactive agency. Our solution is something we call LiveWall - a multi-touch, multi-user, multi-purpose wall that’s like Microsoft Surface turned on its side, developed home-brew using Open Source components, at a fraction of the cost.
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A multi-touch feature display in our new reception area for visitors to interact with. |
Features multiple applications with multiple functionalities |
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| Internationalism: News, time and weather feeds from the major cities we do business with are taken live from the cloud and redisplayed with multi-touch graphics to help staff and visitors keep abreast with what’s happening around the world, plan conference calls and even pack appropriately for business travel. | ||
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Live RSS news feeds |
Local times of major cities around the world |
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People: Headshots of staff are arranged in a 3D matrix that react to one another and can be rotated by visitors. Awards: Instead of finite wall space for physical certs and trophies, visitors can scroll through an infinite “awards wall” and expand each item for a closer view. |
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An infinite awards wall |
Headshots of the Arachnid team |
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Traffic: Being in the high-traffic, central location of MidValley City, we mounted cameras looking out the windows to show current traffic conditions around the building to help those heading for meetings to take the least congested routes. Throughput Art: The amount of up- and down-stream data going through the office is reinterpreted into an organic visualisation onto which users can overlay their own transient finger-paintings. |
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Check traffic conditions around the office from webcams mounted outside our building |
A fun app: flashy interactive equaliser that visually |
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| But the best thing about the LIVE Wall is that it is infinitely expandable, with new apps that can be added as our needs (and imagination) grow. | ||