SUP office through the eyes of provincial designers

    It so happened that a small delegation of designers from our modest icon company turned out to be on a friendly visit in the very heart of LiveJournal, at the SUP office , which is located in Moscow at the very top of the Smolensky Passage.

    SUP Office

    They accepted us as relatives, in general, in my opinion, a very friendly and democratic atmosphere prevails in the SOUP. It is not at all like an evil corporation, as is commonly believed in LJ.



    To get to the top floor, you need to use a special elevator, which is very unusual in design. The cabin is a bit dark, but very stylish and futuristic.


    The office is a single space in two levels, there are no doors. You can go wherever you want, you can see everyone and hear everything.


    "Room" for negotiations. Conducting secret negotiations here is not an easy task. Glass walls are good: if the meeting is boring, then you can look through the window.


    And the window has something to see. All of Moscow at a glance. True, we were a little unlucky with the weather, it was cloudy.


    For some reason, Anton Nosik ( dolboeb ) sits on the “balcony” of the second level .


    View of the "meeting room" from the second level.


    Here are the editors, designers and other people who make LiveJournal.


    View of the office from the "design corner". Rags on the glass ceiling protect the monitors from the sun. It seems to me that working with graphics on a sunny day is not an easy task. I would fit visors to the monitors. :)


    One of the hobbies of the SOUP employees is the construction of a mini-city with its own railway. True, now the mini-city is in decline.


    The organizer of our visit, Vyacheslav Kuteev ( kuteev ), demonstrates a part of the mini-city: a miniature red sneaker. Thank you, Slaveg, for the tour!

    This is only part of the photos. If interested, then the rest can be viewed on the turboflicker .

    I allow myself a digression about the organization of the workspace. I have always been convinced that working in a single space is cool and right. I myself work the same way. I thought that the offices and corridors corrupted and made the company closed. But in recent years I have become a little tired of such an organization. I begin to want peace and quiet. Again, designing or writing is difficult if there are distractions. The employees of SOUP claim that they are quite comfortable, but on the other hand, the company has been operating not so long ago. Where is the truth? How to organize the workspace?

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