Office design plays an integral role in the success of a business. With each passing year, new technologies are implemented and new trends are adopted in office spaces around the world. This constantly changing landscape leads to new and exciting office design opportunities and workplace experimentation.

Experience-Driven Spaces
Incorporating direct experiences into your business model is common practice within industries like retail and hospitality where customer and guest experiences are crucial to success. In one of the fastest growing trends on our list, the thirst for experience in our everyday life boils over into corporate America (and beyond) with the new Experience-Driven Spaces movement.

Free-Range Cohabitation Spaces
Co-working spaces are already booming in 2018, so why is it on our 2019 trends list? Here’s why. It’s how these work-spaces will evolve in 2019 and beyond that is changing considerably. Traditional co-working spaces, popularized by tech startups, bring multiple companies under one roof. The various entities operate separately and often remain closed off from one another. In the new cohabitation spaces, the walls are coming down and allowing companies to share the same space, resources, and sometimes even talent.

Old Meets New
The cyclical nature of fads and trends in culture is well-documented. What falls out of favor will rise once again to popularity. The Old Meets New trend follows this cyclical phenomenon, injecting new life into fantastic old buildings with venerable craftsmanship traditions, bringing once dilapidated steel and brick structures and warehouses in serious disrepair back to life.

This promising trend is leading to the re-opening of new business parks in areas previously devoid of any such activity. Areas such as old fishing yards, meatpacking districts, deserted manufacturing plants and warehouses, and abandoned waterfront areas of major metropolitan areas are gaining a second lease on life in a newly designed role.

These “Old Meets New” spaces often balance the ageless features of the old buildings with modern furniture and decor. Cutting-edge technological expressions and rough, worn, sturdy aesthetic combined with innovative yet unconventional spaces, creates a design that moves effortlessly into the future while maintaining its inherent connection to the past.

Second Nature
The Second Nature trend is the “plants and biophilic design” trend reaching its true pinnacle, the point where “fashionable” has been transcended and the trend becomes firmly embedded in the design philosophy of the culture and has become “second nature” to us. Biophilic design and the plants that are part of the philosophy have become standard practices that will carry on throughout the ages as a necessity – as fundamental to a design concept as windows or staircases in building design.

Moss Walls
Green walls continue to grow in terms of popularity as the “Second Nature” macro trend continues to captivate our collective imaginations. However, some smaller offices and businesses are unable to participate in the green wall resurgence. This is often due to circumstances beyond their control like property contract conflicts, inadequate lighting, unsuitable irrigation, and budgetary constraints.

Abstract & Geometric Patterning
The days of plain, single-solid color walls are in the rear-view mirror. Evocative, abstract patterns and geometric forms are making their way into the hallways, meeting rooms, and lobbies of offices everywhere.

Hand-crafted & Unique Containers
In an era of handcrafted, artisan, locally sourced and fair trade everything, the demand for mass-produced and boilerplate materials is dwindling. Companies are expected to participate in the fair trade economy by purchasing materials from small businesses, local artists and designers, and by sourcing materials from small business vendors. Office spaces are not spared from these growing localized sustainability initiatives.

Green Branding & Natural Cues
In an effort to align themselves with the trends of the times, companies are playing a more active role in environmental sustainability efforts and other green initiatives. These roles not only benefit the planet but also their brand. More and more companies are taking up the cause and devoting themselves towards a greener, more sustainable future. The next step is to ensure that customers and employees are aware that the business is committed to making a change.

Decorating the workplace will surely add excitement and enthusiasm to the hectic life of employees. Following the latest office design trends brings a different vibe in the office environment. So, while decorating offices we need to apply trendy designs.