The offices of Paris-based digital photo retouching studio B’Pong were designed to launch their presence in New York City. The entry space and central conference area are wrapped in stacked homasote, to create a sense of mass and weight, a counterpoint to the light coming from skylights above. .The glowing workstations are encased in corrugated resin and perforated metal screen, creating a moiré effect around the desks. The design is a study in contrasts and is a response to the work of the retouching artists, who work in darkness at the micro-pixel level. It is the manipulation of lightness versus mass with the addition of minute textural moments that create differences both subtle and large.