god what an amazing office!!! it has to create a great work environment, BUT DAMN could you use some Mac's up in there hahahaha
Joseph Timberlake
· 1 year ago
It's like the design agency cliche come to life: without the Macs.
Nice to know, even in a recession, that aquariums and glass conference walls are required...
Chris
· 8 months ago
I guess you don't fully understand that the "recession" doesn't affect every single thing in this country and that infact there are many industries doing just as well as before it. I think you need to actually do more than devour what corperate media gives you, and research a little more before taking stabs at GoMedia for what they're doing.
Amazing work GoMedia, it's great to see you all prosper. The office looks amazing.
frank
· 1 year ago
Let me get this right - you went from your house to this?? Wow!
I'm happy for you. This is an amazing workspace! Keep us updated, I can't wait to see the aquarium when it's up and going.
Dunlap Studios
· 1 year ago
A really incredible place to work!
CROW
· 1 year ago
i need work :)
nobahdi
· 1 year ago
You have a GoMedia door mat?
JoMo
· 1 year ago
Yeah that's pretty much crazy awesome.
WFL
· 1 year ago
Thank goodness - I'm not the only modern designer using PCs (which I prefer :)). What sort of displays are you using?
Don't knock CRTs - I've had some good ones in my day that gave SUPERB color accuracy when properly calibrated, plus excellent contrast, and prefer them over LCDs when I don't have to huff em' (or pay for em') :)
Tim
· 1 year ago
Yes, CRT's are the only monitors that can produce a true black, which is why a LOT of designers still use them. I however have migrated to the Dell 2408WFP which looks to me to be what all you guys are using (or maybe the 2407WFP), which is an amazing S-IPS monitor. I wouldn't be without mine.
Ryan
· 1 year ago
damn that is an awesome place. I wish i could work there.
Simon H.
· 1 year ago
Looks good :-) NIce job and I hope it'll inspire you a lot to work in here guys :p
Yes! We went from my HOUSE to this building... but remember - we had 12 people crammed into my house. I was actually SHARING my desk with Adam. We were shoulder-to-shoulder. That's how packed in we were.
It took 2 YEARS to find and construct this office.
Yes - we're on PCs. :) Most of our monitors are Dell's high-end 24" monitors. Jeff and Oliver even have dual monitors! Lucky.
Yes... ordered the door mat from matsmatsmats.com. You can send them a logo and they're print it onto a mat! Fun Fun!
Everyone is LOVING the new office. And I'm glad to have my house to myself. It's the first time I've EVER had my business and home separate. !!
Bill Biwer
· 1 year ago
Great looking new office space. Looks like it will be a lot of fun to work in the new environment.
Aetoric Design
· 1 year ago
How do I get there? ;)
Grant Friedman
· 1 year ago
Looks great!
raaf
· 1 year ago
great work dude
Dani
· 1 year ago
thats a great office..i wish i can work there too!!
G Zoli
· 1 year ago
Love the table with the Go Media logo :}
sean
· 1 year ago
its great to see creative businesses growing- thanks for sharing your pics. and keep up the great work!
by the way-how do you guys handle backups, archiving and server stuff? i didnt see any in the pics.
Dan Philibin
· 1 year ago
Looks awesome...how are the acoustics in the big room?
Jenny Stewart
· 1 year ago
This is incredible!! This looks like a great place to work.
Tom Faraci
· 1 year ago
That looks awesome!
Simona
· 1 year ago
Congratulation guys, that's really great...! You guys inspire to hang in there on a day where it seems to pour more than just rain...:)
scottAD
· 1 year ago
That is a flippin' sweet place to work! When is the open house?
Chantwan
· 1 year ago
Flipping sweet, congrats Go Media. Graffiti on the walls is what I call zen, the best inspiration.
alanvalek.com
· 1 year ago
Damn, that looks sick!!! I'm jealous!! I'm sure you all are psyched to come into the office!! Congrats!!!
barton damer
· 1 year ago
WOW! Looks amazing!
Francisco Galárraga
· 1 year ago
Take that mactards, a design agency CAN work without the blasted apple!
SlaRe
· 1 year ago
why don't you save that free space on the last shoot for me? Don't worry I'll bring my mac too ^_^
Rob Turpin
· 1 year ago
Hi guys,
You and the construction chaps have done an amazing job. Your new HQ looks like it's going to be a very inspirational place to work.
I'm staggeringly jealous! Have fun.
Rob
Working in my office in London
MikeTheVike
· 1 year ago
Looks great! What do you guys do when a client stops by you are trying to avoid? haha, they will see you!
SNEAKPEAK
· 1 year ago
BEAUTIFUL! THANKS FOR SHARING.. NICE INSPIRATION. WISH I WORKED THERE..LOL
Geoff May
· 1 year ago
Looks great. Hire me!
Bill
· 1 year ago
The acoustics have turned out great. We were a little worried about it when we moved in, but it's been fine.
We do have a server room which I did not show you (top secret). We have a Dell Blade Server with a Power Vault 220 (with 1.1tb) set up in a RAID 5. Also on the rack is a 2TB back-up hard drive that ghosts the entire hard drive twice. Then we have an external that we back up the entire drive and keep off site. Plus we have a full collection of Disks (once a year back-up) plus any clients that are removed from the server. Finally, we mail all source files to our clients when we finish each project. Phew. I guess you could say we're obsessive about protecting our data. OH!.. almost forgot. We have massive insurance on our data. In the case of a fire or something - State Farm cuts us a huge check to cover the time it will take to rebuild our files.
Obviously... we want to protect our customers!
We had taken the glass out of the project until we found a shower enclosure company that could install it for a THIRD of the cost of our best bid. Yes, that's a shower door that goes into our conference room. I'm not sure what makes it better or worse than a "normal" glass door. I certainly can't tell the difference. It's real heavy-duty glass.
Sometimes at night I just sit at my desk, stare around and can't believe this is where I work. It's a joy... ...even if I have to work on a PC. :)
Simon H
· 1 year ago
Woaw ! I'm impressed by how much the data side of the work is handled ! So are you guys hosting your own website ?
Jhay
· 1 year ago
A dream place to be! Good job GoMedia!!
Regards, JHAY, Philippines
room122
· 1 year ago
Okay, I have to know more details on how the table top was created. Can you share a little more?
Wilson
· 1 year ago
@Simon - Actually we do not host our websites in house. This is because of the ISP "backbone" load and security patching we don't want to worry about. We leave our web server hosting to the professionals at Softlayer and Rackspace both located in Texas. We mainly run a Linux cluster for the web and one Windows server. Our in house fileserver is Windows and we have a part-time Server Administrator and a full time developer named Dave who is also a Windows guru. I think we've reached a good balance over the years as how to best leverage vendors over our internal competencies.
Takumi86
· 1 year ago
Oh my.. that seems really nice place to live in, i like your office :)
Jus10GFX
· 1 year ago
Nice set up. A little loud but nicely done man.
Simon H.
· 1 year ago
@ Wilson : so it's much more for filesharing/backup purposes then... Nice !
Tim
· 1 year ago
So you've got your torrenting situation handled, then? XD XD XD
Averyl
· 1 year ago
OMG.....it's like a home and it's huge!!! I would love to work there fore sure!!! It's also a great thought for everyone, warm and comfortable!
wallpapers
· 1 year ago
how old is that monitor? is it art?
Mabuc
· 1 year ago
Very nice working place guys, love to see 100% of the office. Thank you for sharing.
OpenSourceHunter
· 1 year ago
Very nice, i really like to see where other people work, getting some insparation ;).
Sexy...just what I expect from the gomedia designers.
Eric
· 1 year ago
Great Minimalist-Industrial Space. Can't wait to see what creative genius comes out of of your new HQ.
Lemon
· 1 year ago
Wow that is looking great. Thanks for sharing Bill.
Joe
· 1 year ago
Congratulations guys! I've been watching the project since you first started posting pics on the blog and I must say I'm impressed! I'd actually wanna be placed in the "messy area" with a nice Mac Pro ;)
Mr. Sorbic
· 1 year ago
Any close-ups on the graff? Looks sick!!! The office looks amazing. Looks like a place and creative person would love to work at.
Long Le
· 1 year ago
You got an awesome office. I really like such an well-decorated and open space.
Ruben
· 1 year ago
Congrats on your success! Love the walls dude, not to mention the conference table, sweet job!
David P Crawford
· 1 year ago
You guys don't use fireworks for web-design and you don't use macs, what the hell man?
bill
· 1 year ago
@ David
...David, you are correct. We do not use fireworks and Macs. BUT.. last time I checked - Adobe OWNS Macromedia and Macs are running on Intel chips - just like our Dells... :)
soooo.... I don't feel too bad. ;)
-Bill
Travis
· 1 year ago
Wow! This office space looks incredible. What an awesome place to work. I wish my offices looked like this :-( Keep up the great work!
James Kurtz III
· 1 year ago
Looks like a killer place to work.
AndriaTriv
· 1 year ago
Looks amazing, Bill! I want to stop by and check it out.
Sue Major
· 11 months ago
The Construction Update articles are great and a wonderful way to see a dream become reality. Two years of construction and 12 years in the making - a long time but WELL WORTH IT! You have created an amazing workspace. We wish you and the rest of the GoMedia team the very best for 2009. Thanks for sharing the progress.
Mike
· 11 months ago
All you guys do is sell vector packs and stock media? Or do you also do 'services'? I wouldn't imagine building such a big business around selling stock media, but then again, you seem to be 'leading' cool brand around it!
Bill
· 11 months ago
Mike,
This is a common misconception. Our stock vector and design resources are just a side business. We absolutely do graphic design! That's what the company was built on.
You can see lots of samples of our design work there. That's what we're doing most of the time.
The design resources side of our business kind of grew out of the fact that we had compiled a huge database of vector art. WE used it regularly, and thought other designers could benefit from it too. So... we put up the store.
All Comments
Nice to know, even in a recession, that aquariums and glass conference walls are required...
Amazing work GoMedia, it's great to see you all prosper. The office looks amazing.
I'm happy for you. This is an amazing workspace! Keep us updated, I can't wait to see the aquarium when it's up and going.
:)
Don't knock CRTs - I've had some good ones in my day that gave SUPERB color accuracy when properly calibrated, plus excellent contrast, and prefer them over LCDs when I don't have to huff em' (or pay for em') :)
I wish i could work there.
NIce job and I hope it'll inspire you a lot to work in here guys :p
They've got a lot of nice looking setups.
It took 2 YEARS to find and construct this office.
Yes - we're on PCs. :) Most of our monitors are Dell's high-end 24" monitors. Jeff and Oliver even have dual monitors! Lucky.
Yes... ordered the door mat from matsmatsmats.com. You can send them a logo and they're print it onto a mat! Fun Fun!
Everyone is LOVING the new office. And I'm glad to have my house to myself. It's the first time I've EVER had my business and home separate. !!
by the way-how do you guys handle backups, archiving and server stuff? i didnt see any in the pics.
Don't worry I'll bring my mac too ^_^
You and the construction chaps have done an amazing job. Your new HQ looks like it's going to be a very inspirational place to work.
I'm staggeringly jealous! Have fun.
Rob
Working in my office in London
We do have a server room which I did not show you (top secret). We have a Dell Blade Server with a Power Vault 220 (with 1.1tb) set up in a RAID 5. Also on the rack is a 2TB back-up hard drive that ghosts the entire hard drive twice. Then we have an external that we back up the entire drive and keep off site. Plus we have a full collection of Disks (once a year back-up) plus any clients that are removed from the server. Finally, we mail all source files to our clients when we finish each project. Phew. I guess you could say we're obsessive about protecting our data. OH!.. almost forgot. We have massive insurance on our data. In the case of a fire or something - State Farm cuts us a huge check to cover the time it will take to rebuild our files.
Obviously... we want to protect our customers!
We had taken the glass out of the project until we found a shower enclosure company that could install it for a THIRD of the cost of our best bid. Yes, that's a shower door that goes into our conference room. I'm not sure what makes it better or worse than a "normal" glass door. I certainly can't tell the difference. It's real heavy-duty glass.
Sometimes at night I just sit at my desk, stare around and can't believe this is where I work. It's a joy... ...even if I have to work on a PC. :)
Regards,
JHAY, Philippines
greetz
http://www.opensourcehunter.com
...David, you are correct. We do not use fireworks and Macs. BUT.. last time I checked - Adobe OWNS Macromedia and Macs are running on Intel chips - just like our Dells... :)
soooo.... I don't feel too bad. ;)
-Bill
We wish you and the rest of the GoMedia team the very best for 2009.
Thanks for sharing the progress.
This is a common misconception. Our stock vector and design resources are just a side business. We absolutely do graphic design! That's what the company was built on.
Our primary website is: www.gomedia.us
You can see lots of samples of our design work there. That's what we're doing most of the time.
The design resources side of our business kind of grew out of the fact that we had compiled a huge database of vector art. WE used it regularly, and thought other designers could benefit from it too. So... we put up the store.
Thanks for asking.