The Coolest Office Break Rooms

Is it cosy? Is it stylish? Is it completely different than your regular spot at the office? It's every employee's dream to work at an inspiring workplace, where even the break room is designed in such a manner that you're simply eager to spend  a little time in it.

Yandex office by Atrium Designers

The general aspect of the office space in most cases is defined by the profile of the company - a hip advertising agency for example will certainly have a heartmovingly stylish interior design. I'm sure you're all familiar with those office spotting sites and blogs that present ravish designs of the most popular companies, or the images of various Google offices around the world. My favourite site presenting the most popular compaines' behind-the-scenes images is The Daily Muse. Here you're not only given a little insight to the offices, but interviews with some of the representatives as well.

Break Room at Enervex Inc. - Venting Design Solutions
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While looking at these great office designs I couldn't help but admire the way they pay attention the little details in order to create a sophisticated, yet laid back atmosphere: the walls sometimes remain uncovered (in case of brick walls this is absolutely obvious), while the rooms are given a certain  character with the help of beautiful installations and wonderful decorating elements.

Swatch - Switzerland

What I like the most about these office diaries are the images of office break rooms, where co-workers can eat, relax and have a coffee break. These areas in many cases are designed in such a way that they really create a sense of escape from your daily duties for a couple of minutes and to fill  you up with new energy.

Parliamentdesign, Portland, Oregon

Der Tank, Tallin, Estonia

Selgas Cano Architecture, Madrid, Spain

Level Eight by Collins Towers

The uncovered raw material like wood or brick and the exciting jungle-like sections break the monotony of the stern office design and inspire new ideas. Though the office where I work has no such design, but it does have huge windows and an exceptional view to green hills and high trees. How does your office look like?

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A Beatnik salutes you from her office desk

Starting a blog is easy peasy. Sometimes. But other times it's rather more complicated, especially when you have to come up with a catchy online pseudonym and create a ravish design. Later on, of course, all you have to do is to keep things going ( = post reguraly).

I've started blogging while preparing my thesis paper in literature (it was 2006/2007 if I recall it right). I was all over with Hemingway, The Lost Generation and literary modernism and felt the urge to write about my reading experiences in my own manner. I've used Yahoo! 360°, then I switched to Blogger. I have been using Blogger since then.

My current blog is a little personal style book completed with posts about music and literature, but besides that I wanted to create a blog somewhat more specific - this is what you are reading right now.

So who is the Office Beatnik? 

She is a 20-something woman who works at the office, likes beautiful clothes, has an unusual taste in music, novels and design. Because (and not only) of her job she likes to discover and try out everything related to the online media, she's fascinated by all that's geek and hi-tech, but at the same time she's a little vintage lover as well, this is how she became a 21st Century Beatnik.

(Image from Notes on the Highstreet)