Multinational company '3M' makes products related to stationary, technology and cleaning and has unveiled a design center that it hopes will enhance the productivity and creativity of its designers.
The center is located in St. Paul, Minnesota and will house the company's design team -- with expertise in graphics, creating products, designing packaging and materials. The design center is a space that encourages collaboration between these separate areas of design and functions as a space that offers both private and collaborative methods of working. The space holds lounge areas, an open cinema and pentagon-shaped booths made from wood and glass.
This design center offers a creative space in which creators from all fields are able to come together to produce innovative new products for 3M.
Creativity-Enhancing Design Centers
This Space Was Created Specifically for the Company's Creators
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