Expat Ad Agency Transplants English Cottage To Shanghai

Take a quick look around the offices of Bartle Bogle Hegarty, and you might think you missed your plane to Shanghai. Rooms ripped straight from a meticulous English household offer a respite for the homesick, and commentary on Shanghai’s boom.


August 13, 2010

I Want To Work At Sega For The Pranks

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When Sega drone Aaron went out of town for a few weeks, his co-workers decided to prank him hard. Except “prank” at Sega apparently means “do him the awesome favour of turning his desk into a Sonic dreamworld”. Amazing.


July 21, 2010
Geek Out

Just Don’t Use Comic Sans, OK?

Very important: This extends to any business and individual in the world, not only Fortune 500 companies. Thank you very much. You can keep going on with your lives now. [Thanks Dave!]


June 4, 2010

16 Workstations Your Poor Back Is Crying Out For

Posture a little wonky these days? Bum hurt after eight hours of sitting on the office desk chair? You need to invest in one of these 16 workstations, pronto. [WebUrbanist]


May 23, 2010

The Star Trek Crew, Beaming To The Deck Of The U.S.S. Microsoft

Microsoft has an incredible Star Trek sculpture in the lobby of their Studio D office, an installation that continually gives the appearance that Kirk, Spock and the rest are just on the verge of materializing. But how’s it done?


May 18, 2010

Meanwhile, In A Chinese Supervillian’s Lair

Not many meeting rooms are as cool as Saatchi & Saatchi’s meeting room in their Beijing office. Not only is the desk a giant heart surrounded by Eero Saarinen tulip chairs, but the huge half dome covering it rotates:


April 30, 2010

The Other, More Depressing Kind Of Box Office

This may not be the most glowing endorsement a product’s ever gotten, but I think it’s clear that the best part about an office in an aluminium box is that you can eventually be buried in it.


April 17, 2010

A Garden On Your Work Desk

Nicholas Todd has a garden on his work desk, a patch of lawn in which pikmins and gnomes can play while he world. I’d do the same, but I’m sure my dog would find a way to poop on it.


March 11, 2010
Entertainment

Sex, Blood And Post-Its: A Short Film Shot Entirely On A Scanner

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It’s one thing to shoot an entire short film on a Canon flatbed computer scanner. It’s another to do it well. With Memoirs of a Scanner, Mindfruit Films pretty much nailed it.


March 2, 2010
Computing

40-Display Home Office Or Secret Missile Launching Facility

While our readers setups are no doubt very impressive, I have to admit that Lifehacker’s reader Steve Price is only second to this other computer rig on space. The specs make me dizzy.