CLIENT TESTIMONIAL
"By working with Rachel and her team, we have been able to create a space that is warm and welcoming for our clients and also, importantly, a space where our team have more options as to how and where they want to work. Thank you Forster Inc!”
Jamie Styles, Finance Director
IDEO
PROJECT KALLAX
CLIENT
Yodomo
LOCATION
Hackney Wick
SCOPE
Retail and workshop fit out
APPROACH
Circular design and reuse
Yodomo needed a space that could switch between retail and workshop use without a fixed layout for total flexibility.
The design gives them exactly that: everything moves, everything can be reconfigured and the environment works equally well for a customer browsing textile remnants and a group of participants in a making workshop.
Equally important was doing this without buying new. The budget was tight and the values were clear: everything reused where possible, nothing wasted. The result reflects what Yodomo stands for, which is the best kind of brief to work with.
CLIENT
IDEO
LOCATION
Clerkenwell, London
SCOPE
Office
APPROACH
Circular design and reuse
A global design firm whose London office didn’t look like one. The space felt generic, where it should have felt considered, and it wasn’t giving the team the variety of environments they needed to work well.
The refurbishment gave them a reception and communal space they could be proud of — somewhere warm enough for clients, flexible enough for collaboration, and specific enough to say something about who IDEO are.
The entrance is where it’s said most clearly: the prominent yellow bike rack tells every visitor immediately what this company values. Good design makes those statements without having to spell them out.
IDEO
IDEO's London office felt generic. They needed a reception and communal space with warmth, flexibility and a café-like quality that matched their working culture and reputation.
A global design firm whose London office didn’t look like one. The space felt generic, where it should have felt considered, and it wasn’t giving the team the variety of environments they needed to work well.
The refurbishment gave them a reception and communal space they could be proud of — somewhere warm enough for clients, flexible enough for collaboration, and specific enough to say something about who IDEO are.
The entrance is where it’s said most clearly: the prominent yellow bike rack tells every visitor immediately what this company values. Good design makes those statements without having to spell them out.
CLIENT
IDEO
LOCATION
Clerkenwell, London
SCOPE
Office
APPROACH
Circular design and reuse
#Ethically Positive
#Sense of Place
#Creative Reuse
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