Studio O+A – Twelve True Tales of Workplace Design

An artfully-designed book which tells Studio O+A’s design story in a series of twelve true tales – plus a bonus comic book in the middle of it all – that accentuate the company’s spirit of innovation. Each story features a specific O+A project or series of projects and illustrates aspects of the O+A aesthetic and approach to workplace design. Using project and process photos, the book gives a wide-angle picture of the design studio and a deep-dive look at its efforts to revolutionise what work environments can be.

Produced by O+A’s in-house creatives to the highest standards of book design and architectural commentary, Twelve True Tales reveals that touch of the offbeat for which O+A is known. Realised projects include workspaces for Yelp, Nike, Cisco, Giant Pixel, Uber, Kimball and others, as well as forward-looking design experiments in mobile workspace design, product design and branding.

About

• Primo Orpilla is one of the founders of Studio O+A. He is also a lecturer at IE University in Madrid.
• Verda Alexander is one of the founders of Studio O+A. She has a BA from San Jose State University, and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Features

• Studio O+A is a multidisciplinary, internationally-operating design studio creating workspaces for some of the world’s largest technology companies like Facebook, Microsoft, Uber, Cisco, and many more.
• Readers gain complete insight into the working methods of this San Francisco-based studio.
• Illustrated with a large selection of beautiful project photography, the title also contains informative project profiles and lively analysis.
• The firm Studio O+A made its name rethinking the impact workspace has on work, but today their reach extends beyond the commercial environment into all areas of design thinking.

Publication Details

• Release: 23 May 2017
• Frame Publishers
• English
• Curated by Primo Orpilla and Verda Alexander
• Written by Al McKee
• Graphic design by Elizabeth Vereker
• Illustration (graphic novel) by Olivia Ward
• 230 x 297 mm
• 296 pages / full colour / hardcover
• ISBN 978-94-92311-16-0

Online

• Frame book site: frame.shop/studio-o+a
• Studio O+A website: o-plus-a.com
• Social media hashtag: #twelvetruetales

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