This illustration from Frank Chimero will be my guiding principle for the coming year. Make work fun or find fun work. (by Frank Chimero)
Dough-derived pencil shavings… cookies for the desk set, for sure!
Is Christoph great or what? Christoph Niemann – Let It Dough! – NYTimes.com
Fabulously unique Agenda ($45) for 2011 from VeeKee780 on Etsy. At 5.5×8” its generously sized for all your notes. The interior pages are printed in grey with whimsical borders dividing your week-at-a-glance pages. There’s also month-at-a-glance pages and space for notes in the back. There is even an envelope inside the back cover for loose papers.
VeeKee780 also offers a big desk calendar ($20) and several other cover designs for the Agenda so you’re bound to find one perfect for your way of working.
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Make this DIY dry erase board with a picture frame and some pretty backing paper. Voila!
(via Real Simple)
The Alex filing drawers from Ikea are almost as ubiquitous to the modern home office as the Parsons desk from West Elm. This photo shows that to really get some mileage out of this diminutive flat files, you need to line about three of them up as an office sideboard with infinite storage space.
FYI: The Alex drawers were designed to hold A2 paper (16.5 x 23.4 in) which can be a bit of a challenge to Americans accustomed to our Letter, Legal and Tabloid sheets.
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