When you work with auditorium designers almost anything can become a staging exercise.  David Stephens, Russell Reid and Jason Foster have been working on the interior configurations of Dallas’ new office space.  This week, they moved into prototype mode. The theatre design team has been experimenting with taking over-the-counter solutions from Ikea and Home Depot and transforming them into custom solutions for Acoustic Dimensions. (And I probably should mention that with a history of stage design not only do these guys have full shops in their homes but they are also deeply experienced in taking things that are used for one purpose and morphing it to do something else.)

Like most designers, we have the day-to-day realities of needing drawing storage and plenty of layout space, comfort in spending hours in front of a computer, and having physical spaces that support connection and collaboration within the team.  We also have the need to balance work that requires focus, concentration and acoustical separation with the creative energy that comes from conversation.

So if you stop by our Dallas office at the moment you will find a variety of  displaced furniture, Ikea schematics, random tools and various prototypes scattered about.   And while messy, it is also building anticipation for our late-September move in date.