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Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

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Re: Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

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Post by FirmwareBurner »

jasonpeacock wrote: post #6

That's a lot of words for "We put some industrial shelving in a closet with a keyboard and computer monitors, and we made it all beige."

How else do you think designers can justify their inflated rates? Wrap it in in a fancy word salad to elevate it and sell it to wealthy urbanites.

Reminds me of that scene[1] from the Silicon Valley TV show where that designer was tasked to design a server box and he started the meeting showing random pictures to the CEO with some bongo drum soundtrack in order to "establish a common vocabulary" lol, or the brand manual of the infamous Pepsi logo redesign fail[2] full of made up geometrical nature BS stories that the agency pulled out of their ass to milk Pepsi, which I'm sure is what the satire form Silicon Valley was based on.

At this point, I think designers just operate on the basis of "a fool an his money are easily parted".

[1] https://youtu.be/qyLv1dQasaY?si=yUwQU-9EQL3QMxbi&t=6

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/Design/comments/hspqgd/pepsi_logo_r...

Re: Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

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Post by evanjrowley »

dpc_01234 wrote: post #4

How do you call these plug into holes every inch frames used for this? I could use something like this for related projects.

There really is no precise name for these.

Source: A technology hoarder who has too many shelves like this full of junk.

Edit: I stand corrected by @bobson381

I have several of these under the Gorilla Rack brand name and they're sold as Industrial Shelving Units. Home Depot in the US also sells these under the Muscle Rack and Edsal brands. These shelves are good, but I caution against using them in rooms with uneven floors (i.e., basement floors) because the feet are not adjustable. The particle board shelf surfaces can also deteriorate easily in moist environments. OP's shelf is one coffee spill away from a ruined shelf. That particle board is also made with formaldehyde and water damage will release it, FYI.

I have even more Wire Rack Shelves from various brands, all mostly with interchangable parts. A major brand is Nexel. There's also a lot of good parts available through the Metro brand sold by The Container Store. I appreciate the Wire Rack Shelving for it's modularity, adjustable feet, and also the ability to use caster wheels. You can always cut your own solid shelf surface from whatever material you like. The drawback is these Wire Rack Shelves cost twice as much as the Industrial Shelving Units.

Re: Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

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Post by ubb_server »

brcmthrowaway wrote: post #3
_fat_santa wrote: post #2

It's cool but also kinda wild to hire a design firm to figure out the layout of your home office. Personally my home office is very "personal" and one of the things I enjoyed the most is figuring out where everything should go. To me this is the same as hiring a development firm to build you a set of dotfiles.

This person is probably overemployed and making $1M

What makes you think that?

Re: Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

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Post by tobr »

_fat_santa wrote: post #2

It's cool but also kinda wild to hire a design firm to figure out the layout of your home office. Personally my home office is very "personal" and one of the things I enjoyed the most is figuring out where everything should go. To me this is the same as hiring a development firm to build you a set of dotfiles.

If this was a write-up about someone’s personal WFH office setup, it would be pretty cool. Written as a case by a design firm it seems very underwhelming. It just looks like a tiny room crammed with equipment. Wouldn’t you at least go for custom-made shelving to use every last millimeter of the room as well as possible?

Re: Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

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Post by isoprophlex »

jasonpeacock wrote: post #6

That's a lot of words for "We put some industrial shelving in a closet with a keyboard and computer monitors, and we made it all beige."

I'm sorry this clearly isn't beige, this is the color of simple warm and transparent functionality of contemporary Korean and Japanese hospitality and retail spaces!

Re: Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

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Post by isoprophlex »

ubb_server wrote: post #14
brcmthrowaway wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This person is probably overemployed and making $1M

What makes you think that?

The fact that there's a blog post by a design studio on how they shoved a bunch of shelves, acoustic padding, sixty computer monitors and a flight sim controller into a utility cupboard.

Re: Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

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Post by loa_in_ »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #11
jasonpeacock wrote: post #6

That's a lot of words for "We put some industrial shelving in a closet with a keyboard and computer monitors, and we made it all beige."

How else do you think designers can justify their inflated rates? Wrap it in in a fancy word salad to elevate it and sell it to wealthy urbanites. Reminds me of that scene[1] from the Silicon Valley TV show where that designer was tasked to design a server box and he started the meeting showing random pictures to the CEO with some bongo drum soundtrack in order to "establish a common vocabulary" lol, or the brand man…

It's not foolish. Design is subjective and it's most often a question with no objectively good answer, so it's between the designer and whoever appraises his output. There's no secret design paradigm that makes everyone happy.
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