You spend at least a third of your day at your workplace. That’s 40 hours a week, and 10.3 years in a lifetime. That’s way too much time to be spending just staring at blank walls.
Which is exactly why Ben Brucker, a graphic designer at a San Francisco creative agency, decided to put some life into the drab space he works at.
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“One day I just got so tired of how sterile and boring our office felt, I thought I should do something about it,” Brucker said.
So Brucker came up with the extremely cool idea to use Post-it notes to make superhero murals.
Why Post-it notes? The company would be moving to a new office in a few months, so the design needed to be temporary.
With the help of an army of co-workers and his boss, who gave him a $300 budget and even helped out, Brucker was able to finish the murals in one day.
“Superheroes were the answer. I started working out the pixel grid and designing some characters.”
Brucker mapped out the pixelated portraits using Adobe Illustrator to plan the scale and position of the notes.
“Some wonderful people in my office volunteered to come in over the weekend to install the mural.”
Everybody helped during the long and arduous process.
And we mean everyone.
The team ended up using 8,024 Post-it notes to cover all the walls. “There [were] a lot of leftovers. I ended up purchasing about 9,000 Post-its.”
The project took about eight hours to complete.
And what a productive eight hours that was.
The team of pixel warriors celebrate their victory after the great Post-it mission.
Headed by their leader, the amazing Ben Brucker.
“This is a creative agency. This is the kind of thing we are supposed to have on our walls, and the kind of thing that we enjoy.”
Asked which superheroes were hardest to design, Brucker revealed that they were Batman (“because of his belt and bat symbol, he had to be a pixel taller than the rest”), Spider-Man (“because of his arms and legs”), and Iron Man (“because of his armor”).