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From everyone at Floorspace, we hope you have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We've loved every day of sharing beautiful design with you so far this year, and we hope to have many more days of providing you with some inspiration, or just a bit of eye candy. 

We're taking a day off today - so here are some Christmassy designs for you. 

Fun offices provide an energetic environment for staff to work in. Traditionally aimed towards the creative sector, more and more companies are undertaking this style and embracing a unique identity for themselves; to set them apart from the crowd and to provide their valuable staff members with an engaging and interesting workplace. We've found a few of the best to provide some great inspiration for your next office design...

Rentalcars.com spent an impressive £2.7m kitting out their Manchester office with open-air cinema, indoor park area, rooftop 'beach', games room, free staff breakfasts, all-day salad bar and in-house Starbucks. They've even incorporated 'road' walk-ways and one of favourite AV products, the Evoko Room Manager! (Images: Manchester Evening News Syndication) 

Bikhir.ma's Moroccan offices by Identity Design features grass flooring, swings in meeting rooms, pool tables and bean bags. We love their bright and inspired design - and wouldn't mind working here ourselves. (Images: Office Snapshots)

iSelect's Australian offices by V Arc has us green with envy because of their ballpit and slide! With an industrial theme, the office has a "track-style" pathway and colourful door designs on their meeting rooms and even their lifts! (Images: V Arc)

One of our favourite products is the Evoko Liso, a room booking system that is smart and incredibly efficient. A must-have for any office, the Evoko Liso is a beautiful touch-screen that effortlessly allows you to manage your meeting spaces.

With a built-in report wizard, you are easily able to run reports that show the utilisation of your spaces, allowing you to understand the demands of your workplace.

Integration with many PC calendars is another benefit of the solution, meaning you can pick up your current system and seamlessly integrate it with the Evoko Liso. 

If you are looking for a integrator in the UK or Europe, we would recommend TEN Audio Visual; who are a friendly team with outstanding experience in installing the Evoko Liso alongside a vast range of audio visual and video conferencing solutions. 

Images: Evoko

The designers at Paramount Interiors are well-known for their creative office fit-outs, and their work truly reflects their passion for great design. Incorporating a wide range of products and styles, Paramount have raised an established client-base with recommendations coming from the likes of ITV Studios, Arup, KPMG and Airbus. 

We personally love their work for S3 Advertising's offices - unique and bold, the overall design is representative of the brand themselves. 

Some examples of their stunning work is featured below. Case studies coming soon!

Images: ParamountInteriors.com

Designed by Stiff + Trevillion, Innocent's new London office space is as inspired, colourful and energetic as their delicious smoothies. The project involved removing part of the second floor to create a free open-plan communal area which was spacious and bright. 

Looking over the beautiful Thames, the office replicated a natural atmosphere inside the building with grass carpeting throughout, wooden picnic benches in the communal seating area and iconic London phone boxes; further adding to the bright and energetic atmosphere within their space.

Comfortable meeting spaces and lounge areas were added throughout the building to further promote their fantastic community spirit amongst colleagues. Bespoke for Innocent themselves, their desks were designed by the prestigious Tom Dixon studio. 

Images: StiffandTrevillion.com

The Roxy gave designLSM a tight deadline of ten days to create a stunning transformation of their basement bar, which had the goal of featuring striking design features, whilst creating an intimate and relaxing place to socialise. 

In order to attract an early evening crowd, the high profile destination required a re-vamp of it's space to reflect it's atmosphere; creating a timeless design that guests compliment and feel relaxed in.

As part of London Fashion Week, Alchemy Expo designed a retail pop-up featuring a stunning 40-tile video wall for luxury makeup brand MAC. Featuring stunningly bright colours, the whole design popped with colour and was as stylish as the brand itself. With a crisp high-pixel display, the media wall has a distinctively crisp viewing experience.

We love their bold approach with MAC's pop-up makeup academy at London Fashion Week. Perfectly representing the brand and it's consumer, the design brings together style and energy with one of our favourite engagement systems, the video wall. 

Images: AlchemyExpo.com

Designed by Unispace, Slate Magazine's New York offices is inspired by their desire to work in a community-based environment to boost collaboration and help build a sense of community among colleagues. 

Initially sharing a space with their sister companies, Slate Magazine was demoted to the basement where staff lacked the inspiration to fuel creative work. Unispace stepped in; and created a stunning office design for Slate in Brooklyn, who were on a tight budget. 

Designing a central hub, Unispace culminated a communal area in which staff can use to hold meetings, social events, meet with clients and come together for lunch. Fostering a positive and collaborative atmosphere, the hub is also available to one of Slate's sister companies Panopoly, with it's very own studios and work areas within close proximity to the communal space; promoting a further sense of community for both companies. 

Previously working from individual offices, Slate opted for a completely open-plan office; completely changing their office's environment, and again promoting collaboration across all levels; helping to remove hierarchical segregation. 

Fun Framery O booths (see our post on the Framery Q here) have been added to add a little privacy for all-important calls and individual work, whilst an array of meeting rooms and spaces have been designed to allow for productive and effortless meetings. 

The tight budget meant that Unispace had to be creative with their approach to the design, and by using boldly painted accents and intricately-cut plywood designs, the office has a personality reflective of the brand itself; with a modest price tag.

By turning an everyday essential into an iconic design piece, two friend had a vision to spread happiness around the World. Double Retail were commissioned to create an individual identity and store in London for the unique brand. 

Considering seasonal display requirements, Double used clear white display cabinets to allow the products themselves to shine through; drawing attention to the individuality of the products without any overcast from the displays themselves. 

Using a minimalistic design and layout, the store was transformed into a showroom-like layout, clearly drawing attention to the products in a OCD-friendly environment! We love the energy that this brand and stores has; a true representation of it's values.

Last week we brought you Ancestry's office by Rapt Studio after it caught our eye as an inspired design. Showing a clear love for expressing a brand's personality through design, Rapt's proven record in delivering unique projects has come to light through their work.

With a client list nothing short of spectacular, Rapt Studio has flourished in creating truly great design for it's clients, including Google, Dropbox, LinkedIn and The Honest Company. Rapt Studios has inspired us through it's dedication to produce pioneering office design; and unlike other design companies, you can clearly pick out each office from another as it's individuality shines through like we've never seen before. 

If you're looking for an innovative design that truly captures your brand's values, we'd recommend these guys. 

The talented designers at Horn Design created ÄKTA's Chicago offices with a fun and friendly atmosphere. Designed to "empower employees", it's variety of space offerings allows ÄKTA's staff to collaborate in a range of settings. 

With state-of-the-art technology hubs, conference rooms and oversized lounge platforms, the office has been brought to life. Including swings at their snack bar and a ping pong table, employees are encouraged to work on more sociable terms with their colleagues, rather than sit at a boardroom table. 

We personally love swings in offices. Very little could produce more fun and a relaxed environment. The red accents throughout the flooring, furnishings and decor give the office a further spark; creating a vibrant and playful atmosphere.

Designed by retail fit-out gurus Double Retail, Shoe Palace received a royal makeover in LA. Founded in 1993, Shoe Palace has become a successful footwear and apparel retail brand in the US. Now with over 50 stores and an ambitious growth strategy, the brand hopes to expand further using it's refreshed brand image to deliver exceptional service to their customers and expand continuously.

One of four stores that Double have designed, their LA Melrose Avenue store is inspired by a modern and stylish approach to retail. Splitting the store into two zones, Double created contrasting decor with one side representing a lifestyle section in a bright and simplistic white style, with the other side designed around industrial themes, featuring the Nike and Jordan brands; perfectly targeting their customers through design.

A four metre high Air Jordan 1 neon display is the centre attraction for the store; enlightening the store with energy and creativity. The addition of a 4 screen thin-bezel video wall, Shoe Palace have a golden opportunity to showcase featured products and promotions. 

Recently launching Adidas's Yeezy Boost 350 and Jordan's Superfly 4, the store is an iconic location that is ideal for launching new products.