Pope Street, SE1

Pope Street is five minutes walk from Tower Bridge on the south side of the River Thames. Its a quiet street (except for the recent road works) and within a short walk we have some great places to grab lunch. We are still discovering new luncheonettes each day, if you know the area we would love to hear your food suggestions.

Worldview Space

The office is situated in an old London brick warehouse. Worldview Space is on the third floor and is a collaborative space inhabited by a whole range of businesses. One end of the space dedicated to team toggle. The blue paint used across the building pretty much matches the toggle deep blue which is a nice coincidence.

We also have access to a tiny roof terrace, unfortunately the buildings around are a little higher than ours which restricts the view. With a step ladder you might just be able to get a glimpse of Tower Bridge and the Thames.

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Last Friday we took delivery of a laser cut perspex toggle logo to hang on the back wall. This is the largest our logo has ever been and its great to see the intricacies of the typeface when it is blown up this big. The logo sits proudly above our desks.

We have four (and a half) desks to fill and a wall of storage cubes that are currently filled with lots of design inspiration and books.

If you would like to see more pictures we have uploaded a whole bunch to Flickr.

The Office

Both Gemma and I spend most of our time in the “office”. The shot below is of Gemma’s desk, she uses a 20″ iMac as her computer and the small disk you can just see to the left of it takes a daily back up of our server. The backups run at lunch… the reason? It forces us to take a break… well at least that is the plan. The creature speakers are used for the jukebox which is run off iTunes and SlimServer.

Onto my setup. I run a 13″ black Macbook and hook it up to a Dell 20″ screen. On my desk I also have a huge all in one printer/scanner/fax/spaceship and a Mac Mini (currently used to run office type things and to do cross browser testing… we love you IE). Hiding somewhere behind all the junk and cables is also my iPod touch… a fantastic bit of kit.

The Library

At toggle we love books, they are great for inspiration and ,of course, learning. We have an ever growing collection of books that we keep in our library. Each cube is dedicated to a specific topic. Working from top left to bottom right we have: web, mystery black box, branding & packaging, a whole heap of good packaging design, another mystery cube… full of design inspiration, a general selection of design books, typography and in the last cube; books about street art and pixel art.

The Lounge

The lounge takes up the second half of our studio space, it houses plenty of toys and entertainment to keep us busy during breaks and its also serves as a good space to chat to our clients (and kick their ass at halo 3). The Samsung LCD is hooked up to a Mac Mini (for viewing sites, presentations etc), a mega drive (with mega CD!) and a brand new xbox 360 that Gemma was given for her birthday just a few days ago. I also have to mention Mischief… seen here on the windowsill. Mischief could be considered to be the CEO of toggle… he makes sure everything ticks over smoothly. A typical Mischief day involves, eating, sleeping, sleeping, eating and wondering around. To the top right of the picture you can just about catch our ever expanding camera collection.

That just about concludes our tour of the studio. We are still not completely finished with getting our space exactly as we would like it. We need more posters and pictures for the walls and we are also going to try and squeeze in an extra desk. We have uploaded full size versions of these pics to Flickr and covered them in notes so feel free to have a nose round.