CUMULUS
Collaborated with across disciplines: Sandee, Kamonn, Yanyi, JJ and Zi at Royal College of Art
The 6 Finalists and the best video and presentation awards
WINNER
London Design Week Awards 2018
Category: Product Design - Industrial
FINALIST
Bloomberg Design Competition 2017
Design Excellence Award 2018
Role: Interior Designer, Model Maker
Interior Design, Furniture Design
Bloomberg Competition
‘Cumulus’, a multi-purpose room divider for new Bloomberg London headquarters.
Bloomberg is recognised for the company's commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Cumulus is inspired by this diverse workforce and open culture, which is the key to success and innovation. With the dynamic networks of information, people, and ideas. We want to create a colourful design that represents vibrancy, transparency, and team spirit, where all employees feel empowered and motivated.
We use ‘cloud’ as a design metaphor, for both nature and cloud as data. Cumulus is the family of clouds that appear in clusters and is a perfect visual representation that capturesBloomberg’s DNA of global diversity, transparency and data innovation.
With the idea of the cloud, we want to spread an atmospheric, calming feeling, by bringing outside in and creating a sense of expansion. With a little bit of contrast, bringing simplicity into a highly intricate space, and playfulness in a stressful work environment can have a high impact.
Cumulus is a family of organic-shaped screens, characterised by their rounded edges that derived from a shape of ‘cloud’. The set comprises of five different screens which range in height, and vary in shape and opacity. Each screen will fit into a base with a customised especially for each panel. Bringing graphical simplicity through organic design help add some relaxing contrast to the fast-paced, busy office environment. A set of 5 panels builds a spirit of teamwork and collaboration.
Colour has a significant impact on employee’s mood, wellbeing and productivity. By bringing the right combination of colour into the workspace, it can help enhance and liven up a stressful, enclosed environment.
Main materials in our design are acrylics, wooden bases and Hairline bronze covers.
Overall, 3 key design elements that form Cumulus are simplicity, colour transparency, and mobility. A high-quality design driven by Bloomberg’s core values and vision, linking an atmosphere throughout the exterior and interior of the building, enhancing people’s performance and well-being, Cumulus is an eye-catching design that provokes a positive collective spirit, and an ultimate epitome of Bloomberg London.
