[Coworking] Art in Coworking Spaces

2012-01-19 Thread Alex Hillman
A number of people have asked me about our "interior design" at Indy Hall. We've always tried to avoid the "stale white walls" approach by including textures like brick and exposed rafters/ventilation, but it's really been in the last 2 years that Sean Martorana has stepped up our game past inspira

Re: [Coworking] Art in Coworking Spaces

2012-01-20 Thread rachel young
I curate the art in our space (http://camaraderie.ca/community/art if anyone wants to see), and I absolutely agree that having art on the walls help to make the space more inviting (our space is stark white and black with very few splashes of colour otherwise), and specifically changing the art on

Re: [Coworking] Art in Coworking Spaces

2012-01-20 Thread Tom Brandt
Unfortunately we don't have a resident artist (note to self: recruit one), but we have had a gallery, a couple of individual artists, and teens from a local teen center display art in our space. The most interesting art by far was by the teenagers - very creative and less constrained than the art f

Re: [Coworking] Art in Coworking Spaces

2012-01-20 Thread Chad Ballantyne
We also do installs at The Creative Space. Every 4 months a new local artist shows their work. We sponsor their "Opening Nite Gala" and my design co designs handouts for the event for the artist to invite their peeps. We do a press release as well. This year we are talking to Canadian Artist