Spotify’s office redesign project is ‘a celebration of audio’

Spotify offices around the world have been redesigned with a single unifying principle: a celebration of audio.

A company-wide redesign project, led by UK-based art and design collective Acrylicize, has defined a new internal visual brand focused on playful, dynamic spaces where employees, artists and visitors can engage with audio in interactive ways.

While brightly coloured murals and interactive art displays play an important role, the redesigns include audio elements too.

In Spotify’s New York City offices, a Plant Performers feature connects transistors to houseplants to allow the plants to play music. While in the Echo Spectrum feature in Stockholm, Sweden, a circular LED light installation has been synchronised with live music inputs.

The design project has taken in 19 Spotify offices, throughout 2021 and 2022, with nine completely new to the company and others reimagined with new artworks, workspaces and signage. The offices include plenty of collaboration spaces, along with on-site dining and coffee shops.

Meeting room names have a corresponding Spotify playlist chosen by a local team to represent their city or community and below the meeting room names are QR codes linked to a playlist, podcast or artist’s page on Spotify.

The Spotify redesign project has been highlighted by Charter, a news and insights membership community “for owners of the talent agenda”, formerly known as Reset Work.

An account of the project was published in a partnership between Charter and Time magazine here: A celebration of audio’: Inside Spotify’s Colorful New Offices