Bluehole Studio — The carpet tile a tech game studio chose for its office

Bluehole Studio is a Krafton-affiliated game developer, known for PUBG: Battlegrounds. To create a trendy tech-office environment, dark charcoal-toned carpet tile was applied across every floor of the open office as well as the lounge and corridor areas, supplied and installed by Tornex.

The Milliken Nordic Stories and Common Thread collections used at the time are plank carpet tiles in deep charcoal and navy tones, where a linear dash pattern lends the space direction and a dynamic rhythm. The restrained, repeating pattern over a dark base suited the focused work culture of a game studio.

Carpet tile absorbs the footstep noise and chair movement that occur in an open office, reducing reverberation across the large workspace. Its polyurethane cushion backing eases muscle fatigue during long periods of walking and lets wheeled furniture move smoothly, making it well suited to open-plan work environments. As a company spanning interior acoustics and eco-friendly materials, Tornex proposes flooring solutions that weigh design and sound absorption together.

Tornex now supplies ANKER carpet in Korea in place of Milliken. The mood of the dark plank carpet that Bluehole Studio chose carries over to ANKER's DYNAMIC and RAY collections. Both are plank-format tiles with patterns and tones suited to tech offices and lounges, so a workspace of the same character can still be realized today.