Are Bloxes economical? Yes!
They are especially useful for renters, who can’t make permanent changes to their apartment or office. Bloxes compare favorably with standard solutions for office partitions, self-made walls, and sound-dampening insulation. Plus, they’re a lot more fun, and can be reused for different purposes. Granted, they take time to put together the first time, but once you’ve got them assembled, they’ll last for years.
When Humanized set out to find office space in Chicago in mid-2007, they joined forces with some members of Gaper’s Block, Halobrite, and MethodTree. Two Andrews, an Aza, an Atul, a Scott, a Sandor, and a Jonathan combined forces to get some office space in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago. On a budget, and with no desire to modify an office that didn’t belong to them, Aza remember the bloxes his father had invented. From that moment, the current Bloxes company grew.
After we debuted bloxes at SXSW Interactive conference in March, 2008, we had a whole lot of assembled bloxes that weren’t going to make it back to Chicago with us. Rather than throw them out, however, we saw the opportunity to make a difference to local schools. We donated approximately 400 bloxes to the Austin Independent School District, to be used however they wished.
