We’ve talked before about the power of interesting spaces to improve creativity, but this agency office in L.A. takes it to a new level.

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Toilet paper gets fabulously trendy, thanks to design guru Jonathan Adler.

How do you make toilet paper trendy? Was that a daunting task?
It was! My goal is to design the world and I feel like everything can be better. I thought, “What a great way to take something so everyday and make it better.” I wanted to take some of the patterns from my high-end collection that are probably out of a lot of people’s price range and put them on products that are super-duper-affordable and accessible to everyone.

 What’s the best way to display toilet paper?
Proudly! They’re individual covers but they look awful nifty in a stack. I have a whole wall of them, so it looks very groovy and graphic and conceptual.

Challenge for today: “take something so everyday and make it better”

“As for the uses of such a material? That’s still to be determined.”

What would you do with a material 100 times lighter than Styrofoam?

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(Left:) “I am the left brain. I am a scientist. A mathematician. I love the familiar. I categorize. I am accurate. Linear. Analytical. Strategic. I am practical. Always in control. A master of words and language. Realis…tic. I calculate equations and play with numbers. I am order. I am logic. I know exactly who I am.”

(Right:) “I am the right brain. I am CREATIVITY. A free spirit. I am passion. Yearning. Sensuality. I am the sound of roaring laughter. I am taste. The feeling of sand beneath bare feet. I am movement. Vivid colors. I am the urge to paint on an empty canvas. I am boundless imagination. Art. Poetry. I sense. I feel. I am everything I wanted to be.”

Interesting ad for Mercedes Benz highlights the relationship and divide between the left and right brain

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“I’m thinking of a future when products are designed not for the brief moment when they are new, but for when they have been aged to perfection”

So, you’ve learned to think more like a designer and question design decisions, why not take a few minutes out of your Friday to test your skills?

This online color test challenges you to array the colors by hue, can you do it? How about testing your typography skills by kerning font like a designer?

Become more creative by practicing skills you don’t normally have to use, you never know when you might have to draw on them.