{"id":14673,"date":"2013-07-11T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devwp.davison.com\/blog\/?p=14673"},"modified":"2025-02-26T09:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T14:27:19","slug":"uk-telegraph-ranks-inventionland-oddest-of-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/uk-telegraph-ranks-inventionland-oddest-of-all\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Telegraph Ranks Inventionland \u201cOddest\u201d of All!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In a recent UK Telegraph article examining some of the world\u2019s &#8220;weird and wonderful&#8221; workplaces, reporter Chris Bell ranked eight offices that he found &#8220;odder than Google.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The office at the top of Bell\u2019s International List? Our very own creative design facility, Inventionland!<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14682 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"TheTelegraph\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TheTelegraph-277x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"300\" \/>Bell compared our creative wonderland to&#8221;\u2026 the barmy corporate equivalent of The Crystal Maze,&#8221; which was a popular British TV show in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Inventionland was among international company, too. The Telegraph article also included eccentric offices from England, Switzerland, Spain and several other countries.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14685 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Inventionland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Inventionland-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Copyright Davison 2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/film\/10157498\/Eight-offices-odder-than-Googles.html<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent UK Telegraph article examining some of the world\u2019s &#8220;weird and wonderful&#8221; workplaces, reporter Chris Bell ranked eight offices that he found &#8220;odder than Google.&#8221; The office at the top of Bell\u2019s International List? Our very own creative design facility, Inventionland! Bell compared our creative wonderland to&#8221;\u2026 the barmy corporate equivalent of The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,161],"tags":[1281,262,97,330,1282,1283,332],"class_list":["post-14673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-davison-news","category-inventionland","tag-cool-offices","tag-creative-offices","tag-george-davison","tag-invention-factory","tag-offices-like-google","tag-uk-telegraph","tag-unique-office-space"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UK Telegraph Ranks Inventionland \u201cOddest\u201d of All! - Davison<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Davison confidentially works with people to develop their new product ideas. 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