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, Technology
December 9, 2011
By Cerentha Harris
Where we’ve been this week…
1. Core 77 for their post on Ice Cube and his take on the Eameses. (Plus if you are stuck for gift ideas this holiday season check out Core 77′s gift guide)
2. DesignSponge shopping guides are always jam packed with great stuff. Check out their green gift guide for some holiday ideas.
3. Good Reads for their awesome book lists. They’ve got an excellent architecture section.
4. The Design Miami blog for a good wrap up of that wonderful event.
5. Huffington Post’s design coverage including this piece on a glass home in Japan.
6. Meghan Wilker of the Geek Girls Guide, gives a GTD-focused tour of her home office.
7. Microsoft’s Steve Clayton takes us on a tour of his workspace. Can you spot the white Eames Lounge Chair?
8. Designer Daily for their home office roundup. Lots of good inspiration here.
9. The Fox is Black for the beautiful desktop wallpaper series.
10, Museum of Modern Art’s wonderful online store has a great home office section.
Balance, Design, Products, Technology
November 4, 2011
By Cerentha Harris
Where we’ve been this week…
1. Four – as in four-legged friends. It takes a lot to get me to linger on a pet’s site so this wonderfully designed doggy destination was a surprise. Check out their post on Kuntzel+Deygas who painted the Eames chair below.
2. Designer Alvin Aronson‘s site for this cool prototype of a perfectly white digital clock.
3. Design Milk for their post on this pencil holder from Giha Woo.
4. Swissmiss for her post on Instagram – an obsession I share. It’s a lithe little bit of social media perfect for capturing just about everything and now it looks like the pics can be accessed more easily, making it an even better work tool.
5. Cool Hunting for the story on all-natural cleaning porducts. Perfect for getting that desktop sparkling.
6. Wallpaper magazine for their lovely “Letter from Japan” architecture update. Below – House in Seya, Kanagawa, by Suppose Design Office.
7. Design Applause‘s coverage of Belkin’s green power strip.
8. Dwell’s excellent “Small Spaces” series (the house below is the most recent addition to the series).
9. A Brief Message for Hugh Graham’s short essay on design – “We have the opportunity and the responsibility to create a world where each object and experience is filled with value, where living with less but better is both joyful and meaningful.” We couldn’t agree more.
10. Field Notes new red notebooks. I use these little notebooks in the car and always have one on hand in my purse. Nicely designed, small and light weight.
Balance, Design, Products, Technology
October 21, 2011
By Cerentha Harris
Where we’ve been this week…
1. There’s a new Alexander Girard book for kids due out November 1.
2. Dwell for their “Houses We Love” series. The one above is a floating home in Seattle’s Portage Bay.
3. Living Etc is a UK interiors magazine with an excellent site. Check out their home tours section. I liked the home office below.
4. Muji for their online stationery store that is packed with cleanly designed goodies.
5. Habitus is an Australian architecture journal focused on the Pacific Rim and has an excellent house section on its website. Check out this eco-house in Singapore (below).
6. Core77 for their photo tour of designer David Week’s workspace.
7. Selectism for their post on Jasper Morrison’s sleek book ends (below).
8.Debbie Millman’s Design Matters podcasts on iTunes. Podcast Number 9 is with our very own Steve Frykholm.
9. Inc Magazine’s roundup of cool home offices.
10. PSFK for their Top 10 Creatives series. So much inspiring design out there!
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.
Balance, Design, Products, Technology
September 17, 2011
By Cerentha Harris
Where we’ve been this week… 
1. Fast Company for their United States of Design stories. Nice to see that we made the “30 Companies That Get It” List.
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.
Balance
March 18, 2011
By Cerentha Harris
This week instead of running a list of sites I’m going to do a round-up of charities who are doing important work in Japan. At Herman Miller we’re responding in a few different ways. As a business we have made donations to the relief efforts and so have our employees. We will also be donating 5% of our online sales to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. The American Red Cross is in daily contact with its counterparts in Japan. We’ll continue those donations through to April 16. We feel this is one thing we can do together.
Above: Devastated Landscape: An emergency worker cycles past debris in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, March 17, 2011. From Time magazine’s excellent photo essay of the disaster. Photo credit: ALY SONG / REUTERS
Below are 10 sites I found that give you more chances to help.
1. The Red Cross: Text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a one time $10 donation from your phone. ou can also donate via iTunes or Causes on Facebook. Living Social is also offering to match your $5 donation to the Red Cross. They’ve raised over $1.5 million so far.
2. Japan’s Red Cross: You can donate directly to the Japanese Red Cross Society on Google’s Crisis Response.
3. International Medical Corps: Text MED to 80888 to make a $10 donation from your phone.
4. Global Giving: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund. Provides relief and aid to victims.
5. Save the Children Text JAPAN or TSUNAMI to 20222 to make a $10 donation from your phone.
6. Ark (Animal Refuge Kansai) Help for animals made homeless by the earthquake and tsunami.
7. Doctors Without Borders
8. Japan Society Earthquake Relief Fund
9. ShelterBox provides emergency packs. To give directly click here.
10. Help fund Japanese architect Shigeru Ban’s partition system for emergency shelters. Donate here.
Thank you Yanko Design Design, Yukiko Matsuoka of Greenz.jp and Google’s Crisis Response page.
Balance, Design, Products, Technology
February 25, 2011
By Cerentha Harris
Where we’ve been this week…
1. Brain Pickings because it makes me feel smarter every time I read it. And check out the bamboo keyboard and mouse in their Shoppe. Amazing.
2. Pinterest for its ability to keep us interested. Such a clever idea this one. Check out the collection of desks here.
3. Cool Hunting for its coverage of design and also its aquarium story. Every home office needs one of these!
4. Desire to Inspire because they consistently get great interiors. It’s like picking up a well edited interiors magazine that refreshes every day.
5. Daily Imprint for this Sydney-based blogger’s great interviews with designers.
6. A Love Letter for You because I can’t quite let go of Valentine’s Day!
7. Design Milk for its Friday Five series.
8. Juxtapoz Magazine for their studio visit series. Check out Hannah Stouffer’s home studio.
9. Lifehacker for lots of things but especially for making ergonomics interesting.
10. Dezeen for its up-to-the minute design coverage.
And one more!
11. Treehugger because their site is dense with green stories that are newsworthy and well put together. Nice combination.
Balance, Design, Products
February 18, 2011
By Cerentha Harris
Where we’ve been this week…
1. Design Crisis for Karly Hand’s frank and funny writing and the great images of interiors.
2.Design Traveller for strong inspirational interiors and a refreshingly clean design.
3. Eye Spy for graphic designer and Atlanta-based Susie Q’s warm modern aesthetic.
4. Pink Wallpaper because I am clearly on a girly interiors bent. But this blog somehow circumvents the obvious and gives us some very beautiful spaces.
5. Lonny magazine’s blog for its awesome coverage of interior design. This online magazine is wonderful and the blog lives up to its hefty monthly cousin.
6. Belle Maison for the interviews with designers. Nice informative series.
7. An Afternoon With for Michael Mundy’s beautiful photography and the voyeuristic pleasure of peeking inside elegant people’s homes.
8. julia for its amazing layout and her book-filled desk.
9. My Vibe My Life for a peek into interior designer Kelly Wearstler’s colorful world.
10. Dwell magazine for its strong round-up of incredible home offices and home office ideas.