Squad Ink Studio
An elegant dark green marble-topped bar and velvet Gubi Beetle set the tone for this ‘anti-office’; the unequivocal solution for an envelope-pushing brand agency that represents clients from the niche side of food and liquor.
Squad Ink, a 10-year-old brand agency that had evolved since its initial interior fit-out needed an update that would acknowledge this coming of age. A growing business, it required the addition of a neighbouring space and the firm’s upwards evolution rendered its own branding more important than ever.
- Scope
Interior Architecture, Furnishing, Object and Art
- Photography
Nikki To
- Awards
Shortlisted 2019 Belle Coco Republic Interior Design Awards
Shortlisted 2019 Interior Design Excellence Awards - Workplace
This was a creative, more than a corporate place and our client selected us for our experience in residential projects and ethos around ‘home’. We transferred that to the workspace via rich, natural materials; by eschewing white for a series of greens on the walls and joinery (and in several plants), and by disguising technology behind custom joinery. An ‘entertaining zone’, usually high on the list for residential clients, is usually forgone in most office designs.
The agency’s passion for the niche industry it represents is told in the green marble-topped bar that showcases a silver tray of rotating latest labels, its lower cabinets and fridge drawer in dark green stippled-matte polyurethane, and custom shelving displays of their own portfolio of labelled bottles. The space is the ultimate portrayal of its brand’s aesthetic and cultural values, and with a look worthy of the most elegant bars in Sydney.
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