Interior graphic design for Pivotal and Pivotal Labs by Ian Lynam Design in Tokyo.

Pivotal Tokyo Offices

Interior graphics for software innovator Pivotal's Tokyo offices.

Interior graphic design for Pivotal and Pivotal Labs by Ian Lynam Design in Tokyo.

We designed the interior graphics for Pivotal‘s Tokyo Offices—hundreds of meters of bespoke anti-patterns.

Interior graphic design for Pivotal and Pivotal Labs by Ian Lynam Design in Tokyo.

Pivotal accelerates the digital transformation of the world’s largest companies with a modern software development methodology and modern cloud platform. We were excited that such a forward-thinking company approached us to design their interior graphics for the launch of their new Tokyo offices in Roppongi Hills.

Interior graphic design for Pivotal and Pivotal Labs by Ian Lynam Design in Tokyo.

Pivotal’s website reads, “Pivotal unleashes the power of the Silicon Valley state of mind on companies with decades of industry know-how, combining traditional experience with industry-leading capabilities and infrastructure to reshape the world.”

Interior graphic design for Pivotal and Pivotal Labs by Ian Lynam Design in Tokyo.

For the Tokyo office, we created a series of anti-patterns which combine lesser-known Japanese characters, well-known symbols from the Japanese landscape, and characters from attempts at Japanese orthographic reform that never stuck.

Interior graphic design for Pivotal and Pivotal Labs by Ian Lynam Design in Tokyo.

These characters were layered together with meaningful ornament and dead characters from other languages, creating an ordered system that represents the simultaneously generative and entropic aspects of language.

Interior graphic design for Pivotal and Pivotal Labs by Ian Lynam Design in Tokyo.

The patterns festoon the interiors of Pivotal’s massive offices inside of Roppongi Hills—one of Tokyo’s largest office complexes.

Interior graphic design for Pivotal and Pivotal Labs by Ian Lynam Design in Tokyo.
Interior graphic design for Pivotal and Pivotal Labs by Ian Lynam Design in Tokyo.
Interior graphic design for Pivotal and Pivotal Labs by Ian Lynam Design in Tokyo.
Interior graphic design for Pivotal and Pivotal Labs by Ian Lynam Design in Tokyo.
Interior graphic design for Pivotal and Pivotal Labs by Ian Lynam Design in Tokyo.
Interior graphic design for Pivotal and Pivotal Labs by Ian Lynam Design in Tokyo.
Interior graphic design for Pivotal and Pivotal Labs by Ian Lynam Design in Tokyo.
Interior graphic design for Pivotal and Pivotal Labs by Ian Lynam Design in Tokyo.