The privacy bear has been killed

A bear as a privacy screen

Office dwellers don't like sitting in a glazed office, a kind of aquarium, because there are prying eyes from outside at almost any time of day (see photos to browse through below). Of course, light-flooded offices are nice, but the balance between privacy (or working atmosphere) and openness must be maintained. In the long run, life-size cardboard bears, such as those used by the software developers at Jetbrains were installed. The result is too big and too dark. This also applies to the black foils or stacks of cardboard boxes that were used as temporary "separators" between inside and outside.

Decorative glass film - also known as frosted glass film

A real privacy screen for the office offers both: visual protection paired with sufficient light. This is where our decorative glass film (also known as "frost film" or "frosted glass film") comes into play. It combines both properties and is ideal for glass fronts in offices.

165 sqm adhesive film

Specifically, we were allowed to apply 165 square meters of adhesive film at Jetbrains. We had to deal with three different types of film: Firstly, the outdoor adhesive film. This was intended for the "wall" substrate, as the adhesive is stronger than that of the decorative glass film in order to adhere to uneven surfaces. The special feature here was that our installation colleagues had to press the filigree lines extremely firmly to the substrate before installation so that nothing would come off when the transfer film was removed. And this removal in turn had to be done with a great deal of patience and perseverance, as otherwise, as already described, the thin lines would have disappeared from the wall again straight away.

Glass decorative film: contour-cut and printed

Secondly, we were on site with contour-cut and thirdly with printed decorative glass film. The cut-out version formed a kind of "negative" of data highways and chip elements. The printed version was intended to resemble city maps of our client's various branches, including Munich, St. Petersburg and Prague, including printed rivers in light blue. The different substrates (wall, glass) were to partially "merge" into one another and continue without a break in the design, which was the biggest challenge in this job, but which we were able to solve with the appropriate "tricks" and suitable equipment.

36 hours assembly

On top of that, two colleagues spent a total of 36 hours assembling the system over three days. A really big project, but one that was just as much fun. The result is something to be proud of: a creative privacy screen that is nevertheless translucent and therefore inviting. And the bears and cardboard boxes were able to devote themselves to other tasks than acting as a privacy screen.

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Matthias Wenzel