Look mom, we’re on Top Billing

…or at least, one of our projects is… rated the coolest offices in the world!

But, let me backtrack a little.

The first time I saw Richard Mulholland was a couple of years ago at an ABSA small business breakfast where he was the main speaker.

This guy, with his tattoos protruding from his T-shirt, a chain hanging from his pants – presumably connected to his wallet – and his wild hairdo; looked exactly like someone who should not be addressing a crowd of small business owners… and then he started speaking.

It was quite obvious that he knew a lot about business and mostly everything related to it.

He intrigued us, gave a couple of excellent tips, mentioned that he owned a company called Missing Link, and then left.

Fast track forward to 2011, when we were contracted to make the new Missing Link offices in Fourways nice, and our paths cross again.

These are thrilling offices so far removed from the conventional officey feel that you would be forgiven for not taking it seriously the first time around.

And now it was our baby. We helped design and implement the floors of the offices that was rated the World’s Coolest Offices for 2011 by Inc. Magazine in New York. Your heard right; World’s Coolest Offices!

That makes us the World’s Coolest Office implementation guys!

And now, our work was on Top Billing!

Isn’t that AWESOME?

Okay, enough about us, let’s talk about the Missing Link offices again. They have a slide, a shooting range, a tattoo parlour, Richard’s office is in a tree house, the reception is a bathroom… Heck, watch the video to see more!

Let me give you a little background on the project and what we did. Someone painted black and white squares on the floor. It looked quite cool for about a week, and then started peeling off.

Now, when you are a busy office, and lots of people walk through you every day, and the people working in you keep damaging your floors, how would you feel?

This is exactly the way the Missing Link offices felt: It had nowhere to go, and so too did the people working there have nowhere to go. And then we got involved.

We moved everyone into the top restaurant section, made a couple of jokes about the inconvenience that we are causing. Then made fun at the way they looked all cramped up into the little space. Then made fun of how dusty they all started looking. Then we actually started to feel sorry for them. And then we just left them to do their jobs, and us ours.

In eight days (Including the weekends), we managed to rip all their floors up, polish the screed, fix the massive problems with the substrate and install new floors for them. By day 9 we re-installed their desks, and by day 10 they were continuing work as if nothing ever happened, except for one massive difference: their floors were now award-winning floors! And we did it!

And guess what product we used there? Vinyl. Like the stuff that gets put into hospitals, and the stuff that was in your parent’s kitchens when you grew up. Yes that stuff that we all know as the most boring, most unimaginative, and ugliest floors ever.

You should see the new stuff though. It’s awesome… Really expensive, but Awesome!

And it’s stronger and more durable than most things!

But the coolest thing about these new products is the range. There is nothing else like it; it’s awesome!

So, to Missing Link, the people with the coolest offices in the world, from Creative Touches, the people who make the coolest offices in the world, congratulations for being aired on Top Billing. You guys rock!