November 3rd, 2008
The New CoWorking Office
Ever since I heard about the coworking concept, I’d been fascinated with it. It’s been one of my dreams to start one in Chennai and to see that day come is extremely satisfying. For those who don’t know, coworking is a friendly concept of entrepreneurs joins hands and sharing an office space. Here are a few quick snaps of the office.

I love comics. I’ve always enjoyed reading them. I wanted to bring in the same kind of joy and happiness into work as well. So, the comics is a way of reminding ourselves to enjoy our work. Surprisingly, the output comes out a lot better.
We made 12 comic posters. Dilbert, Peanuts, TinTin, Asterix, Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes. You only see a couple of them here in these pics. Will show the pics of the rest later. Under production are Simpsons and Beetle Bailey. Each of these were recreated from scratch in photoshop, vectorized, printed and framed.

A nice quiet room. I love the yellow color. Makes the room halcyonic. I bought that big pot two years ago when I attempted a terrace garden. Now, it will adorn a nice big indoor plant soon.
That’s the place that I work out of.

Love the game and the focus it brings to it!

What you don’t see right below the basketball hoop is a dust bin. A fun way to dispose that crumpled piece of paper!

My plan is to make the coworking office space a Free Culture House. A place where artists and creative folks get together to collaborate. And yeah, hoping someone will make better use of the guitar that I bought ages ago. Well, they can start with buying the strings!
Books that, honestly, no one ever reads. It just makes the office seem geeky.

Love this one.

I’m a big Dilbert fan.. incase you haven’t guessed yet!
Folks at my office discussing over a project.

Another table to work out of. If any of your are travelling into Chennai and want a place to work out of, feel free to ping me. If you are an entrepreneur and tired of working along in your home, try coworking a shot. It’s lot more fun working together with like-minded folks.
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Comment:
Nice idea with the co-working thing….will help with the networking…
Question:
Why are there no Indian Comic Posters?
Suggestion:
I suggest a CorkBoarad or something to the effect behind the dart board..else your going to end up having a bunch of holes in your wall unless your peeps bulls eye everyshot.
Bad Joke:
Why is only a part of your office going green?
Kiruba,
Wow, CoWorking Office has come out very well. Impressive colors. Looks like The Best Place to Work from. I would surely love to visit our wonderful office when I come down to chennai.
I wish you and your team have lots and lots of fun working in your new office.
-Anbusivam
Aaah I’m waiting to get there soon..
Having my semesters:(:(
too nice,
great work
nice idea of co-working
Kiruba, could you share some details on how you got the comics to the framing stage? I have been wanting to do something similar and could use some ideas and best practices.
Hey the office looks super cool. Wonder wot it feels like working there. Good interiors and yeah do temme more abt getting the comics from printing to framing stage.
Hi ,
If I come down to Chennai , I will bring the Guitar Strings and will tune the Guitar for You . So every one can strike the chord !!
Good work , Hope u will have lot of fun in the office
Yup, add my request also for telling us about printing the posters. They look neat and cute. Wud love to add a couple of C&H pics to my study.
hey, the Geforce gfx card box in you shelf, for the dual monitor ?
loved the way the posters are framed…can u give me the address of the poster guy
Hi Kiruba,
Can you pls share the Hi-Res pics of the posters you made, Would love to have them printed here in Bombay.
cheers n all da best
satish
Interesting idea and nice place to work
Your co-working plan is very cool. I love to work over there. Is there any place for me?
Looks awesome. I love the Dilbert hangups. Who did the artwork?
Nice cartoons & a creative dustbin
Happy working…
finally im seeing a co-working office in action
the last i saw the idea was from freelance switch. this is a great great idea for traveling freelancers as well
lovely Posters…can you share them??
Kiruba, I appreciate the efforts and pains taken by you. But why the lack of ethnic feel, if the whole idea is not to make it like any other office?
Hey kiruba.. nice post and nice pics.
when i went through your previous post where you mentioned your plans to adorn your office, i thought many of them were just dreams..
nice to see that you’ve realized them!!. Kudos!
co-working in Chennai! Thats great…the place looks lovely.
Good that your making realy a great environment for your office…heard about google like that…How about bring petS?like Lizards, dogs, hamsters??!! to office>?
Hi all, I’ve moved my HomePlanGuru.com venture to this new co-working office. Amazing concept. I’ve started enjoying… Thanks a lot Kiruba. regards, Virupakshan (viru@homeplanguru.com, 9840VIRUPA)
Hey Kiruba,
Nice to know that like your other initiatives, you are even embracing Co-Working.Loved the photos especially the Dilbert one
I am sure that such an atmosphere would be a great moral boosters for your employees !!!
-Himanshu Sheth.
Missed one point.My next visiting card would surely have the Dilbert Cartoon on the back side (I can work faster since the Internet is too fascinating
)
-Himanshu Sheth.
this looks awesome. I would love to do something like this.
Hi,
We have took office space for rent and Now feel bored of single as my partners flown away to Overseas. I’m looking if some entrepreneur who really want good working space and have mind set to share with me. I’m at chennai and if anyone in need of workspace call me at 99403 14725.
Thanks
Venki.N