Balance, Design, Technology
March 22, 2012
By Amy Feezor
With all this extra daylight and our now-official “spring season” status, we are admittedly spending more of our time in the office wishing we were outside instead of in. So we had an idea: this year, let’s really make it happen and brave a few workdays in the Great Outdoors.
We started, therefore, where we always do: with a checklist. The goal was to create a comprehensive listing of everything needed to make an outside “office” as suitable as an indoor one. It began, of course, with the obvious (mobile or home Wi-Fi, laptop, notebook/pen combo). But a few hours and a hundred Google searches later, the list got long—and out of control (noise-reducing headphones! Anti-glare filters! Laptop cooling pads! Paperweights!). Overwhelmed and suddenly intimidated by the idea of our laptop being subjected for even a mere moment to the springtime sunshine, we turned to Joey Roth for a reality check. The industrial designer knows a thing or two about taking work outside, spending a lot of his time designing projects in the bamboo-lined backyard of his Los Angeles home. Read more
Technology
March 13, 2012
By Amy Feezor
Are you on email overload? Apartment Therapy Tech just offered up advice from tech and culture blogger Sean Bonner on making email communications better for everyone involved. Sean advocates keeping the message short and to the point using acronyms that indicate whether or not a recipient needs to respond. Would you welcome these in your office in-box? Read more
Balance, Design, Technology
March 9, 2012
By Amy Feezor
Here’s where we’ve been keeping ourselves.
1. SF Girl By Bay’s coverage of this Norwegian home (check out how its small workspace, above, incorporates a Magis Chair_One).
2. LA Times’ look at Lisa Ling’s new Santa Monica house.
3. Solo, an easy-on-the-eyes project management tool for “the modern freelancer” (via Design You Trust).
4. Pippa Lord’s photo collection of home-office inspiration at sousstyle.com.
5. Dwell’s “Coolest Homes for Artists & Art Collectors” article and slideshow.
6. This amenity pouch by the Eames Office for American Airlines makes us want to travel even more. (via NOTCOT).
7. The Poppin blog’s roundup of business card resources.
8. The Instagram feed for Shades Detroit Graffiti (congrats on the new Embody Chair).
9. Did you spot the Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman in Apple’s video for the new iPad?
10. Apartment Therapy Tech’s friendly reminder of the things that are important. (So take a break outside after you finish reading this, won’t you?)
Photo: Trine Thorsen for Elle Decoration
Balance, Technology
February 29, 2012
By Iris Anna Regn
Artist, educator, and curator Leonardo Bravo is Director of School Programs at the Music Center: Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County. He also organizes and produces Big City Forum, an interdisciplinary project designed to bring together creative practitioners over issues related the social dimensions of art, design, and public space. As an artist and curator, he’s had a long history exhibiting at spaces such as the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the Whittier College Arts Gallery, Deep River Gallery, Barbara Davis Gallery (Houston, TX), POST LA, Michael’s Restaurant (Santa Monica, CA), and Fifth Floor Gallery. Here he talks about how music seeps into all his activities. Read more
Balance, Technology
February 27, 2012
By Amy Feezor
Inspired by our easy-to-adjust Monitor Arm, we found six more items that help maximize your everyday devices. Read more
Balance, Design, Products, Technology
February 24, 2012
By Amy Feezor
Here’s a glimpse at what we’ve been reading.
1. Chairsmith, a blog find from Jamie Latendresse of this week’s Ideal Live/Work Space.
2. Everything at ghostlyferns.com.
3. This colorful interview with Eames Demetrios, grandson of Charles and Ray Eames, on Ace Hotel’s blog.
4. Should you? “Be Free, Lance: Should I Freelance?” via Studio Sweet Studio.
5. “10 Steps to a Home Office You’ll Love” from Apartment Therapy.
6. A peek into the secret lives of hired guns by Susannah Breslin for Inc.
7. This over-the-top home office at biscade.com. (We spy an Embody Chair.)
8. Bloomberg Businessweek’s “Who Should Take a Home-Office Tax Deduction?”
9. The latest issue of Edition29 ARCHITECTURE for iPad (we’re particularly fans of the Summerhill Residence in Kenwood, CA and the Lake Lugano house in Switzerland).
10. Did you celebrate Modernism Week in Palm Springs? There’s still time–events will be held through February 26. Get details here.
Balance, Design, Technology
February 22, 2012
By Amy Feezor
Take a listen to our latest music mix straight from York, Pennsylvania and the Eames-inspired home office of WORKtoDATE design director Greg Bennett. Read more
Balance, Design, Products, Technology
February 17, 2012
By Amy Feezor
Here’s what we’ve been reading this week.
1. The ongoing “Creative Spaces” feature at confessionsofadesigngeek.com.
2. Houzz’s look at the Nelson Coconut Chair, “a stylish slice of modern cushiness.”
3. Design Milk on the importance of plants in the Pacific Palisades home of Charles and Ray Eames.
4. Glimpses of this organized home office (and its Finnish office supplies) at Weekday Carnival.
5. The premiere issue of The Roger magazine and its mission to showcase creative workspaces.
6. Apartment Therapy’s transformation of a home office belonging to two engineers in need of a more functional space.
7. This smart toolkit covered on fastcodesign.com that rethinks the standard pencil cup.
8. “How America became a nation of freelancers” at The Guardian.
9. The colors and pattern in the home of Wolfgang Joop at The Selby.
10. Deskography.org, where you can “show the world where you work.”
Balance, Design, Technology
February 16, 2012
By Amy Feezor
There’s much to discover inside the oak tree-shaded Austin home in Apartment Therapy Tech’s latest tech tour, but one thing in particular got our attention: the owners’ serene, uncluttered home office. Designed around a his-and-her pair of desks created for Herman Miller by George Nelson, the space features small pops of color by way of well chosen office accessories, a flexible Mirra Chair for long nights spent on deadline, and lots of light via a tall floor-to-ceiling window. Just outside? A soothing water feature offering white noise and an extra dose of tranquility. Read more
Balance, Design, Products, Technology
February 10, 2012
By Cerentha Harris
Where we’ve been this week…
1. Treehugger for their “Most Beautiful Street in the World” post.
2. Apartment Therapy for this home office tour.
3. Design*Sponge’s wonderful wrap up of home office spaces.
4. Design Milk for their Designer DeskTop Wallpaper series.
5. MujiUSA has some very sleek minimal designs for the home office including these acrylic organizers.
6. Luludi for their cool way of incorporating plants into the home office – hang them on the wall.
7. Cleverhands shop on Etsy has a interesting alternative to the pencil case – check it out here. Good for home office workers on the go.
8. Vienna-based designers Less & More create beautiful wooden desk organizers. You can see them here on the US-Supermarket site.
9. Design Notes funny post on a new game – “Six Degrees of Cranbrook”.
10. Desire to Inspire‘s post on a cool Toronto office.