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).

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

4. Fast Company for their info graphic on the world’s most influential designers – Yves Behar, designer of the SAYL chair is number 7 (below).

5. Visuelle for their coverage of the design culture. Shows what you can do with simple images and minimal text.

6. Glo for their Geek Chic story on stylish cases for all kinds of technology.

7. Australian House Awards site uncovers some gems including this beach house designed by Andrew Simpson, Owen West, Steve Hatzellis, Dennis Prior, below.

8. PSFK for their piece on these cool Post-It watches.

9. SeeJaneWork for the office supplies section of her blog. Love those fine-point tip Le Pens.

10. DWR’s Design Notes ran a great post on a new paint collection for the home inspired by the Guggenheim. Perfect for updating your home office. The collection includes the original colors chosen for the museum by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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.

4. Cool Hunter for their piece on an annual clock designed by Scott Thrift. Very nice video (below) explaining this cool new design. It’s a Kickstarter project so if you like the idea you can help bring it into production.

5. Klat for their piece on Korean designer Giha Woo’s pencil holder.

6. Architectural Digest for their library slideshow. The Eames Lounge and Ottoman certainly looks at home amongst all those books.

7. Media Bistro’s Unbeige blog for reminding me that it is National Design Week next week.

8. Lifehacker for this backyard shed turned home office piece.

9. Photographer Byron Edwards‘ home office via flickr. It’s his most stolen image. And yes that’s a kitty on his Mirra chair (pic above).

10. Emmas Designblog because it’s a constant source of inspiration (below).

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.

1. Dezeen for their London Design Festival coverage. Above is British designer Sebastian Bergne with the greenhouse he designed made from of Lego in London’s Covent Garden.

2. Room 100 is Thompsons Hotels’ blog and they often have good design stories. Check out David Byrne’s artwork under the Highline in NYC.

3. Culture Monster for Christopher Hawthorne’s post on the legacy of the Case Study program . The living room in Charles and Ray Eames’ Case Study house below.

4. Cool Hunting for their review of Thames and Hudson’s new book Total Office Design.

5. Inhabitat for their piece on Yves Behar’s new bike.

6, Inspire Me Now for doing just that. Lots of great design eye candy here.

7. Swissmiss’ clever Tuex Deux. It’s always helpful to be more organized!

8. Houzz for their cable management page. I just got bluelounge’s CableBox (below) and its great.

9. Desire to Inspire for their post on a clean-lined modern renovation of a backyard shed (below).

10. Designboom’s news section is a great place to keep up to date with what is happening in the world of design and architecture.

2. LA Curbed for their great news gathering. They were the first to show LACMA’s California Design, 1930-1965: “Living in a Modern Way” exhibition actually getting installed in the Resnick Pavilion (they grabbed the shots from the LACMA blog). The show includes the real Eames living room taken from their Case Study house in the Palisades. When we were at the house in June Eames Demetrios talked about the careful dismantling of the living space and how it would give them the opportunity to do much needed repairs to the building. The show is part of a larger designe event called Pacific Standard Time.

3. Chair*Stalker is a simple image-driven tumblr blog about…chairs. Well worth a look if you are interested in design.

4. Crane.tv’s coverage of Milan’s Salone del Mobile – you almost feel like you’ve been there.

5. ReCraft for their take on Eames wire chairs (below).

6. Eichler Network for their piece on mid-century modern architect Edward H. Fickett.

7. Los Angeles Times Home blog’s Landmark Houses series. The 2005 photograph below is of publisher Benedikt Taschen at work in his home – John Lautner’s  iconic Chemosphere.

8. Fuel Your Writing for their Writing Spaces tours. Sneak a peak inside the shed where Roald Dahl wrote his novels.

9. Online interiors Lonny magazine turns two. See the latest issue here.

10. Architectural Digest for their homes gallery. So much eye candy! For some vintage Herman Miller check out this New York dealer’s home.

1. AIA’s Architect Barbie’s House Competition. Yes, that is a home office complete with an Eames Lounge Chair (above).

2. Rupert Murdoch and the “pie” incident. I was amazed by two things here – how quickly Murdoch’s wife Wendy Deng literally jumped to her husband’s defense and how good the Eames Aluminum Group Chairs look in that deep green!

3. Beyond the Cubicle by Allison Arieff. Arieff’s article includes an interview with our very own Lifework contributors – artist Rebecca Niederlander and architect Iris Anna Regn.

4. Web Design Ledger for their post on excellent iPad Apps. Check out the Awesome Note HD as a good organizing tool (below).

5. Seed Walker for Parneet Gosal’s piece tracking 5 emerging trends on Google+ – which has acquired more than 10 million users.

6. Coudal Partners for their link to these amazing 1960s Japanese office spaces (above). Herman Miller abounds!

7. The Journal of Dustin Heerkens for its beautifully-presented content covering design, art, hotels and food in East Asia (below). My next vacation spot may just have to be the Waterhouse.

8. Grain & Gram for raising up our work lives to an elegant art. I love the piece on butcher Ben Runkle.

9. Fox Johnston Architecture. These two Australian architects do amazing work and this website is a testament to their careful eye. I can see working away on my laptop from this sofa.

10. DWR’s Design Notes for their post on a cool little Vipp Bin trashcan icon to replace the wire basket that now sits on your desktop.

1. Sign up for StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon lets users rate sites with a thumbs up or down as they browse around the web, forming a massive database of recommended sites, and clicking “Stumble” on the site’s plugin bar takes you to a random one of these sites.

2.Type related:url into Google

Google may not yet be sentient but it certainly has a handle on peoples’ search behaviors. Just type related:theurlofyourfavoritesite to see what other people are looking at.

Check out the related:hermanmiller.com/lifework/results.

3. Test your Hunch

Hunch is a user-powered recommendation engine. Users rank stuff they like, Hunch spits out results based on collective user knowledge. Lots of community action and listmaking here, if that’s your kind of thing. Try out the Blogs or Websites when Bored categories.

4. Play Around with SimiliarSites

SimilarSites bills itself as an alternative to fruitless Googling. Users start with the familiar and refine their results as they learn more about what they like. Sites are categorized and rank, making it easier to explore with just a few clicks.

See the SimilarSites results for Herman  Miller.

5. Install a Plugin

SimilarWeb is the plugin version of SimilarSites, with the added benefit of working automatically as you browse around the web.

Grab the plugin for Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer here.

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1. Chairs and Buildings because you may have missed our interview with Annie Coggan, the author of this design blog, yesterday. Take a look. It’s well worth your time.

2. The Jealous Curator for its humor and dose of stunning visuals.

3. A Cup of Joe for writer Joanna Goddard’s coverage of fashion and design.

4. Rue magazine for its round up of inspiring work spaces.

5. Andrew Long for an intriguing view into the life of a professor at the University of Otago in the South Pacific.

6. The Off Switch for its tips on taming technology.

7. Desire to Inspire for the work they’ve done trawling through Flickr for cool work spaces. Thank you!

8. Emma’s Design Blog for Emma Fexeus’ excellent take on the beautiful city of Stockholm. Great interiors.

9. Etsy Stalkers for a hilarious, obsessive take on everyone’s favorite online design market from copy writer Julie Spano.

10. The Beholder for anyone looking for art to brighten up their home office.

1. DWR’s blog Design Notes for Joel Pirela’s awesome eye chart.

2. Mocolo (even with that annoying horizontal design) for the cool-looking Charcoal House by Atelier RZLB.

3. Pinterest for some incredible home work spaces.

4. M-Dashing by our very own Amy Feezor for the blog’s new design.

5. Australian Vogue Living for its excellent archiving of back issues.

6. Little Scraps of Paper for the interviews with creative people on how they develop ideas.

7. Time magazine for a well-written piece by John Cloud on how exercise won’t make you thin.

8. Core77 for the Powers of 10 video competition. Deadline extended to 2/2/11.

9. The 3six5 project for its brilliant daily reporting by 365 different writers.

10. UK’s LivingEtc for the color-packed home office gallery.