Have you stepped into an award-winning design studio?
Look for these 17 giveaway signs in 2017.

1. You’re in a tasteful mill/factory/church conversion.
2. Several very expensive road bikes are hanging on the wall.
3. Radio 6 Music is playing.
4. There are beards.
5. An eager intern is asking you if they can get you a drink.
6. An awards trophy from the noughties is being used as a doorstop.
7. There’s a white IKEA Expedit bookcase full of Laurence King and Phaidon books.
8. There’s a pile of Howies catalogues on it too.
9. There’s a shelf full of pencil-shaped statuettes and slabs of glass.
10. People are sniffing the pages of new print as if that’s a normal thing to do.
11. Someone’s walking around with a camera.
12. A pile of D&AD annuals are being used as a laptop stand.
13. There’s decent 120gsm paper in the printer.
14. There’s a mural.
15. You can smell proper coffee.
16. Plastic Japanese action figures worth a fortune on ebay are sitting on people’s desks.
17. No one has any idea when the Creative Director is next going to be free. Or indeed where they are.