Low-maintenance, water-conserving plants on an adjoining wall contribute to the reception area’s look of unforced spaciousness.Īdding to the informality is the placement of a coffee bar-with fully functioning donut and pastry counter-at the reception station. Forgoing expensive interior branding, Evernote instead hired chalk artist Dana Tanamachi to draft a wall-sized representation of the company’s identity, complete with its tagline, “Remember everything,” and elephant logo. Evernote’s coffee bar and break areas are clad with Douglas fir plywood, the texture and grain of which provides its own graphic patterns. In a clean and modern context, construction materials may acquire the design impact of richer finishes. We began with the concept of making the process of construction part of the aesthetic. Our challenge was to design an office commensurate with Evernote’s soaring profile-on what was essentially a start-up budget and schedule. With the company moving into a much larger building than it had previously occupied, and with business booming, Evernote needed to be up and running in its new space with a minimum of downtime. Evernote is an online data storage company that allows its users to save (and retrieve) everything from Post-It notes to photographs to formal documents in the Cloud. Here's some text about the project from Studio O+A:Īt Evernote in Redwood City, California, the strict budget and swift pace of construction helped determine the direction of the design. The emphasis throughout the office is on circulation - they really want to encourage people to move around, meet with each other, talk with each other so we thought coffee and donuts in the lobby would help with that. 'Evernote doesn’t have a reception desk in the traditional sense. The reception area is the most innovative part of the project, Cherry says. We wanted to create a clean palette for them to layer in their work, much like their product, which creates layers of personal documents and pictures unique to every user.' And in fact they have an amazing whiteboard artist on staff who creates beautiful murals.'Ĭherry describes the look of the new space as 'Simple, clean, bright, airy. Anywhere you have an idea you can jot it down.

'We put in lots of different types of meeting spaces - formal, informal, collaborative, concentrative,' says Cherry.

Evernote logo with white square background