Balance, Design, Products
January 27, 2012
By Cerentha Harris
1. Bloomberg Businessweek for their piece on the SAYL chair.
2. Saltsurf.com‘s blog is beautiful. Even if you don’t surf or have never been to the beach this blog takes you away from your desk for a few minutes and lets you indulge in gorgeous shots of beach and ocean. Plus their new canvas totes would hold your laptop rather nicely. Enjoy!
3. Design Observer for Adam Harrison Levy’s review of A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor. Sounds like a fascinating book.
4. Milo Paper for their cool notebooks. They’ve dubbed them “Men’s Collection” which is a shame because they really would be perfect for women too. So don’t be put off. Check them out – you can even personalize them.
5. SF Girl By Bay has revamped her site and now there’s even more great interiors for home office inspiration.
6. An Organized Nest for their 6 tips on dealing with mail – real snail mail not email.
7. Oki Ni for this awesome messenger bag/lap top carrier.
8. House Beautiful gives us a nice slideshow of 16 different home office styles.
9. Architizer for this amazing house by Blank Studio. It’s in a town called Superior at the base of the Superstition Mountain range in Arizona.
10. Brain Pickings for Maria Popova’s thoughtful post on Charles Eames (including a great link to an Eliot Noyes essay on Charles).
Balance, Design, Products, Technology
January 20, 2012
By Cerentha Harris
1. Well Appointed Desk for their coverage of the home office.
2. Dezeenscreen for their lovely video on the Sharing Plug – a new plug that offers a good solution to home office cable chaos.
3. Hongkiat for their post on 5o great work stations.
4. Unclutterer for their round up of organizing tips.
5. 20×200 for their great collection of affordable art. Perfect for sprucing up the home office.
6. MarketingTech Blog for their infographic on the rise of the mobile worker. We certainly aren’t alone!
7. Scientific America ran an interesting article in early January on the mobile worker and how technology is aiding the transition from office to home office.
8. Desire to Inspire for the crazy workspaces post.
9. Chictip has a good post on home office set ups.
10. The Selby for his coverage of Olaf Hajek’s home and home work space.
Balance, Design, Products, Technology
January 7, 2012
By Cerentha Harris
Where we’ve been this week…
1. Architizer for their amazing roundup of inspirational architecture from around the globe.
2. Dwell for their home stories – check out this one on a small house that doubles its size but still kept the yard.
3. From the Desk Of...great roundup of creative’s desks.
4. Habitus is an Australian interiors magazine that is also available online here.
5. Design Observer for their lovely piece on architect Andrew Geller who died last month.
6. Architectural Digest talks to designers about setting up a home office.
7. DWR’s blog, Design Notes, for their piece on the late Eva Zeisel.
8. Smashing Magazine for their roundup of stylish free desktop wallpapers.
9. Real Simple for home office organization tips.
10. Cool Hunter for the architecture section – great eye candy here!
Balance, Design, Products
December 23, 2011
By Cerentha Harris
Where we’ve been this week…
1. Core 77′s Year in Review post.
2. Architectural Digest for their interview with architect Steven Holl.
3. Interiors magazine nicely designed digital version has a cool all-white office here.
4. Design*Sponge for a great sneak peek into Steve Soria’s home and home office.
5. A Touch of Happiness for their home posts – including this one showcasing a Tasmanian house by Bicker Design Co – yes, that is an Eames Lounge Chair in the living room.
6. Inside Out magazine’s home office storage and decorating tips.
7. Bolig – a Danish magazine – has a nice web presence and a great white Christmas story (complete with Eames chairs around the dining table).
8. MoCo Loco for their collection of amazing houses – check out the Hansha Reflection House.
9. Habitus magazine for some great homes and interiors.
10. HGTV’s round up of modern home offices.
Balance, Design, Products
December 2, 2011
By Cerentha Harris
Where we’ve been this week…
1. Treehugger for their interview with treehouse designer Pete Nelson. Fewer tree houses are used as home work spaces than was originally thought.
2. Core77 for their ultimate gift guide because suddenly it’s that time of year again!
3. Architizer for the MIMA House – a contemporary home that responds to the changing use of space with moveable walls.
4. Design Milk’s Designer Desktop series closes with the wonderful Dieter Rams.
5. Grain Edit for the post on Dutch illustrator Raymond Lemstra. Great work and a helpful link to Lemstra’s store (good holiday gifts perhaps?)
6. Design Observer’s Alexandra Lange on the interiors of Kevin Roche. You’ll spot some beautiful Eames pieces in the shots.
7. Unbeige for alerting us to the fact that Philip Johnson’s Glasshouse now has an online shop. Help raise funds to save the house and find great gifts. Perfect.
8. The Selby for a wonderful peek into publisher Angelika Taschen’s home.
9. PSFK for their post on architect David Adjaye’s pavillion outside the Design Miami tent.
10. Metropolis magazine’s piece on what a toy can do for architecture.
Balance, Design, Products, Technology
November 23, 2011
By Cerentha Harris
Here are 10 great design stops to sustain you over the Thanksgiving break…enjoy!
1. New Yorker for Daniel Zalewski’s detailed portrait of architect Rem Koolhaus.
2. The Atlantic‘s regional modern series where they examine contemporary architecture and how it responds to place.
3. Listen to our very own Steve Frykholm on Debbie Millman’s Design Matters.
4. An excellent piece by Malcolm Gladwell on Steve Jobs and his real genius.
5. Peter Robb’s interview with Pritzker Prize winning Australian architect Glenn Murcutt
6. Christopher Hawthorne’s thoughtful essay on the ground-breaking Case Study program
7. Take a break from reading and wander through photographer Todd Selby’s wonderfully rich visuals.
8. Beautiful Finnish home featured in the New York Times Homes and Garden section.
9. An interview with Bill Jersey, co-director of Eames: The Architect and the Painter
10. With the airing of the Eames documentary it feels like the right time to go back to the source and watch the Powers of 10 again.
Balance, Design, Products, Technology
November 11, 2011
By Cerentha Harris
Where we’ve been this week…
1. New York Times for Pilar Viladas’ piece on these vintage Eames Lounge Chairs covered in Maharam fabric. They are on show at Moss in Soho and are the first in a planned series of one-off furniture pieces on which Moss and Maharam will collaborate.
2. Core 77‘s coverage of Toyko’s Design Tide. Spotted this cool concrete pencil by designers Sean Yu and Yiting Cheng.
3. Design Milk‘s post on designer workspaces (above).
4. Baubauhaus for some great workspace inspiration.
5. Home Designing may have an awkward title but there are some good home office images coupled with helpful links.
6. Urbis Magazine for their coverage of the New Zealand architecture scene. There’s some beautiful work coming out of that country. Including this house by architect Thom Craig (above).
7. Write your next To-Do List in crayon … just for a change. These are stick crayons from Shipley & Halmos will do the trick.
8. Inspiring talk from former New York Times design director, Khoi Vinh. Interesting to hear this well-respected creative talk about his process. Via MediaBistro
Khoi Vinh – on the grid from The Color Machine on Vimeo.
9. Rejuvenate your home office with these new “Wallrounds” from Not A Gallery. They are oversized dots of heavy gauge wallpaper.
10. The Decoist covers some great houses including this A-Frame gem from architects dmvA.
Balance, Design, Products, Technology
October 28, 2011
By Cerentha Harris
Where we’ve been this week…
1. Poketo’s blog for their day-in-the-life story on artist Karolin Schnoor. Includes some interesting workspace shots.
2. Eastern Design Studios for their incredible residential work.
3. Monocole‘s new radio station. Streams great music while you work (above).
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Balance, Design, Products, Technology
October 13, 2011
By Cerentha Harris
Where we’ve been this week…
1. Metropolis magazine for their multimedia section. Check out the photo essay by Michael Wolf titled Transparent City - makes me glad to work from home!
2. Domus for their amazing website – go straight to the architecture section for some wonderful residential and commercial projects.
3. New York Times for their interview with the authors of the new Unhappy Hipsters book It’s Lonely in the Modern World.
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Balance, Design, Products, Technology
September 30, 2011
By Cerentha Harris
Where we’ve been this week…
1. Poketo for their new porcelain color-drenched mugs (below). Perfect for that mid-morning coffee break.
2. Life magazine has made their photo archives available online via Google and there’s a treasure trove of images including the shot above of Ray and Charles Eames at and the wall storage unit below by George Nelson that caught DJ De Pree’s eye in 1945.
3. Selectism for the piece on the Ro briefcase (below) designed by New Yorker Yvonne Roe who now lives and designs in Italy.
4. Saatchi Online for some affordable art for your home office. M10 by Thomas Hammer (below) is $54.
5. Architectural Record for their great collection of residential work.
6. SoFiliumm for their story on Ilse Crawford’s Precious Collection for Georg Jensen (bowl pictured above). Via Remodelista.
7. Contemporist for their coverage of modern homes including this one by MOS Architects (below).
8. Danish magazine RUM is a great spot for design hunting.
9. Gizmodo for their office on wheels story. Designer Alexander Zhukovsky has created a blueprint for a car that houses a ‘home’ office. Gives mobile worker a whole new meaning.
10. The Design Traveller on tumblr for the brilliant use of color and images. This is a real visual treat.