You’ve just gotten a new job or been promoted to where you now have your own office. There’s wall space which needs filling. You want to be comfortable in your own office yet present a professional vibe for your clients and coworkers. What do you hang on the wall to create that essential feel? What is the best office artwork for you?
Creating a professional-looking office can be both a challenge and a joy. It’s about striking the right balance between your personality and your work.
How to Create Your Office Space Aesthetic
When creating a professional space in your office, you need to place items and artwork in there which will both show off your personality and interests in addition to creating a realm of trust with your clients so that they will buy from you, invest in you, borrow money from you, etc. To that end, you will want to focus on what your customers and clients want to see in your office more than what you want in your office.
Your customers want to feel comfortable in the space which is your office. They want to feel like you won’t be cheating them of their time and their money. They also don’t want to feel like they are dealing with a child, dangerous individual, etc. To that end, movie posters, video game posters, and the like won’t be considered appropriate decorations outside of those particular industries. Instead, you should be looking at some conservative style artwork for your office.
You Best Choice for Office Artwork
When choosing your office artwork, you have several options but only a couple of categories which will be dead ringers for safe art choices in a professional setting such as an office. Those choices are landscapes and nature pictures and abstract pictures. We’ll elaborate on both of these options a little bit.
When pursuing these choices, choose something which will reflect well on you and your company along with attracting your client.
Keep in mind that family photos are often fine as desktop frames. They add a bit of humanity to you in a business situation which can work to your advantage in negotiations. They can also serve to remind you of who you are working for. However, your office is not the place for giant wall portraits or giant wedding photos either. Reserve those kinds of photos for your home.
Landscapes and Nature
Everyone loves a good landscape or nature picture. It doesn’t much seem to matter if it’s day or night in the picture. This kinds of pictures have been popular for centuries.
There are a wide variety of landscape and nature pictures available on the market. You can find deserts, rivers, the ocean, the Aurora Borealis/Australis, stars and the night sky, mountains, snow, canyons, plants, bugs, flowers, rocks, nautical, etc. You have a great deal of options. Scenes involving water are particularly popular as water is widely considered to be a relaxing subject. You can buy paintings, drawings, sketches, photographs, etc. of landscape and nature pictures.
Abstracts
Abstracts are a more recent addition to the list of acceptable office artwork. Abstract art is something which doesn’t appeal to everyone but doesn’t often directly repel people either.
Abstract pictures take many different forms. It would be difficult to list all of them. However, the common theme with abstracts is that you don’t quite know what you are looking at unless you stare at it for a while. Sometimes, even then, you don’t know what you’re looking at. Abstracts are meant to have lots of personal interpretation and your choice of abstract artwork can speak volumes about you. You can buy paintings, drawings, sketches, photographs, etc. of abstract art.
Conclusion
The best artwork for your office is something more on the conservative side which will showcase some of your personality/interests, while at the same time not repel your customers and clients. Nature and landscapes in addition to abstracts are good choices for wall art in a professional space for this reason.
Because your office is only a little bit about you and much more about your customers, it should reflect what they expect to see and feel. This will create the realm of trust the your company needs to build a business relationship with clients. The more trust your clients have for you, the more they will spend money with you. Isn’t that what this is all about in the end?
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