This message was just received from Antony, our SAP consultant who worked internally with us for months:
“Oof. The razor blade on the window logo. The End. Great story.
I loved being part of it. One of my most fulfilling engagements in my career. We really were a family. A wonderful collection of people. There was mutual respect between the various departments… a beautiful design ethos…. from the branding, that amazing office building and the culture.
I had not thought through how devastating Covid would be for the company. Its stock and trade really did depend on humans gathering. Mostly for fun. A company that nurtured our desire to congregate, washed down into the abyss by the awful isolation we all experienced.
Well, rest-in-peace Envelopments, Tom Johns, that little office garden, your beautiful logo. Dino’s green smoothies, those exotic German mechanical wonders that could do crazy stuff with paper… and Hal. My first real encounter with AI.
All of this will become manifest again, in a different time, in a different place, with a different group of people. That thought comforts me. We all got to experience a rare type of flower that pops up in the garden here and there. Tread lightly, it might just appear again under a different guise.
Envelopments was a class act that will continue to exist in the hearts of those who remember her.
This message was just received from Antony, our SAP consultant who worked internally with us for months:
“Oof. The razor blade on the window logo. The End. Great story.
I loved being part of it. One of my most fulfilling engagements in my career. We really were a family. A wonderful collection of people. There was mutual respect between the various departments… a beautiful design ethos…. from the branding, that amazing office building and the culture.
I had not thought through how devastating Covid would be for the company. Its stock and trade really did depend on humans gathering. Mostly for fun. A company that nurtured our desire to congregate, washed down into the abyss by the awful isolation we all experienced.
Well, rest-in-peace Envelopments, Tom Johns, that little office garden, your beautiful logo. Dino’s green smoothies, those exotic German mechanical wonders that could do crazy stuff with paper… and Hal. My first real encounter with AI.
All of this will become manifest again, in a different time, in a different place, with a different group of people. That thought comforts me. We all got to experience a rare type of flower that pops up in the garden here and there. Tread lightly, it might just appear again under a different guise.
Envelopments was a class act that will continue to exist in the hearts of those who remember her.
Thanks Mark, for stirring up these memories.”