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.

Choosing to assemble our initials into a palindrome, we called ourselves the Asajasa crew, and we organized to manufacture Bloxes. 1,000 bloxes were delivered to our office, and over the following year, we assembled fully 500 of them. We used them for all sorts of things, many of which are shown in Flickr photo pool:

• Enclosing our furnace closet, cutting down on blower noise by more than half.
• A 7-foot-tall closet to hide all those odds and ends which just look strange.
• Partition walls for those people who spend lots of time on the phone.
• An ever-changing wall that divided out space for a new tenant, PerkSpot.
• A table with a piece of whiteboard for the top, making an excellent planning board.
• A footstool and chair.

For us, bloxes were an inexpensive and non-destructive alternative to building or buying various needful walls and paritions in our rented office space.