Newsroom Innovator Mugs

'I'm a member of the non-traditional media.'

The trend toward less formal offices began to gain steam.

'You obviously took my suggestion to reduce stress to the extreme.'

'This one is for keeping 'On Message' in the spin wars.'

"Yes sir, I'll admit I was sceptical about the whole 'mini-office' concept at first..."

"I like this Carl, you've come up with more solutions than we have problems."

On-the-job creativity may go unrewarded an may even create consternation among co-workers.

"Well, I've emailed, faxed, and phoned Dobson. Maybe I should just walk down the hall and talk to him..."

Man at work sees in lounge refrigerator, 'Creative Juices'

'I think and work spectacularly well either inside or outside the box.'

BREAKING FAKE NEWS

He's our ideas man. I can never tell if he's working or not.

"Yes, it's different...but I don't think Fondue Friday is going to last."

You're right-this is way better than a standing desk.

Modular Offices

Dare to be different.

"Terri and Kip make up our crazy dreamer imagineering department. Al is our get-realinator."

'As all coherent strategy has failed, we turn to you.'

'I hate these cliche situations!'

"The coffee is free, but now we rent the tables."

'We finally came up with a cubicle design that really works.'

'I'll be happy to put my best man on it, Mr. Orton... but my best man happens to be a woman.'

Social Networks.

"Does it not gladden the heart to see Lowry adapt so well to our new low overhead policy?"

"You know our 'Never-Overwhelm-The-Reader' policy. Your story is irrelevant, trivial and stupid but not irrelevant, trivial and stupid enough."

"O.K., Chief! Hang on to your socks!"

"They got rid of 'work from home,' so I pushed for 'blanket forts from office.'"

"Lawrence can't be here for the presentation, so his drone will hover in for him."

An expletive of editors

'What if, and I know this sounds kooky, we communicated with the employees.'

'What's this, Dawkins?another of you 'visual metaphors'?'

To save space, we eliminated hallways and doors, by adding catwalk and ladders.