Ready to share your best work with us?

Here’s how to be featured in one of the most popular sections of Work Design: Office Tours. We profile newly completed spaces that inspire human achievement, and our goal is to highlight the FULL story of the project. What’s the overall? What did the client love? What happened along the way? What solved a problem for the client?

Client end users & architect firms are welcome to submit.

Requirements

• A NARRATIVE about your best work
• Professional images of the space (no WeTransfer links, please)
• The project must have been completed within the last 12 – 24 months
• NEW! Include product names & brands of at least 3 products that make an impact in the space
• Outcomes (ex. post occupancy data & survey results) are key to demonstrating impact and are highly encouraged

4 – 8 Week Timeline for a Submission

STEP 1: PITCH

Email our Profile edit team, [email protected] and include:

• Short brief (300 words) with the client name and location and explain the key workplace issues involved
• 5 – 10 professional photos (jpg) of different spaces with credit information and short captions.

STEP 2: WDM RESPONSE

3 Weeks or sooner, you will receive an email back to move on to the next round or not.

STEP 3: WDM PROJECT PROFILE FORM

If selected to proceed, we will ask you to supply additional information via a form. It’s important to answer as much on the form as possible including our new requirement of calling out at least 3 products that make the most impact in the space.

This form is due within 4 weeks of receipt. Due to high volume, if not received or granted an extension by then, your profile will be removed from the process.  

STEP 4: DECISION

Upon receipt of the additional information, you will receive one of the following three communications via email:

• With a few more questions/requests for information
• Acceptance and a tentative window for publishing (anytime in the next 4 weeks)
• Declining the project for publication

STEP 5: PUBLICATION

If selected for publication, we will be partners in promoting the finished profile far & wide. To help, we’ll send you and the members of the design team the newsletter containing the project and the firm will be tagged in as many of our social media posts as possible for easy re-sharing.

We also require email addresses for the design team too. Everyone will be added to our Monday newsletter list so they can see when it is promoted and for easy sharing. We will also be communicating upcoming exclusive opportunities to this same list as well; They’ll want to be on it and can easily unsubscribe if they don’t find it valuable.

SUBMIT HERE

FAQs

Is there a fee?

A. For office projects that are selected for publication, there is no monetary requirement rather we ask for the attention of the design team members (or 3 associates from the submitting firm) for 4-week trial subscriptions to our free Monday newsletter. Not including this information in the form upfront can delay the publication of your accepted profile.

If we are profiling a firm’s own office, there is a small fee. Details can be found in our Inside an Architect’s Office feature here.

Once accepted, what’s the turnaround time?

A. If we have complete information, we typically post accepted projects within 4 – 8 weeks of the initial submission.

What if the client wants to remain anonymous?

A. That’s fine – just state upfront what kind of client it is (ex. financial client)

What’s the acceptance rate?

A. We receive far more submissions than we can publish. On average, we can accept 3 out of every 10 submissions. To get the best chance of acceptance, review the tips above.

Note: We reserve the right to cancel publication if quality of the submission does not match our requirements.

If at any time the client asks to unpublish a project for any reason, we adhere to that request immediately.