What if employees were given an opportunity to be their own client?

Imagine in a creative agency, employees given the opportunity to actualize their pet ideas

(think Pet Rocks, eBay). Imagine an environment for contemplative thinking with the materials and equipment at hand or accessible to tinker, create and renew the creative spirit. Imagine exploring the entrepreneurial opportunities of the new century firsthand. What could happen?

•  We could better understand how our clients think
• We could garner a fair amount of publicity
• We could make a little money
• We could make a lot of money

Imagine a place that’s part ideation center, part SoHo gallery, part science museum,

part HP garage and a whole lot of fun. Imagine yet another stupid idea.

Slide show

The idea was a large workspace with a clean side for computers and design (show above) and a workshop side filled with fabricating tools.

The fabricating side.

The fabricating side.

The fabricating side.

Whizbang, The Workplace

FOURTH QUARTER 1999