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Chris Higgins
On My Desk
by Chris Higgins - June 7, 2007 - 9:30 AM

As someone who works a lot at a desk, I’m pretty particular about how things are set up: for me it’s all about piles. I favor tall, precarious piles — somehow a desk full of piles means productivity to me (I maintain a much smaller version of Al Gore’s desk). Aside from making my own mess, I’m fascinated by what others do to create their work environments — that’s where the blog On My Desk comes in: it features guided blog posts about people’s desks and workspaces. It’s a form of office voyeurism for the self-employed.

Here are some random samples from the blog, featuring some designers and illustrators:

Many, many more at On My Desk.

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Comments (10)

  1. I wanna see pics of the M_f office!

    posted by John on 6-7-2007 at 9:57 am

  2. I don’t really have piles of paper on my desk… they’re more like snowdrifts.

    posted by Jason! on 6-7-2007 at 10:02 am

  3. Columbia has an article in it’s alumni newsletter about messy offices, by none other than a Professor of Management at the Business School. Great picture of his office. Love his whiteboard. Other Nobel Prize winners offices are similar. See the website linked to my name above.

    posted by Stew on 6-7-2007 at 10:49 am

  4. Don’t say that you have “a desk full of piles.” Instead, explain that you utilize a basic piling system. I, on the other hand, have been using a rather complex piling system for years.

    posted by Andi on 6-7-2007 at 11:37 am

  5. Shouldn’t that be “precarious”?

    [Ed. note: indeed! Fixed.]

    posted by Pointy-Hatted Geek on 6-7-2007 at 5:34 pm

  6. Table? What table? All I see is piles of paper.

    posted by Wernie on 6-8-2007 at 8:52 am

  7. I want that first office. I like all the stuff on the walls.

    posted by Paula on 6-9-2007 at 7:14 pm

  8. One of the things that bugs me about all of these new photo blogs springing up is that many of them are just imitating the subject matter of long-established flickr photo groups, stealing photos from that site, adding google ads, and setting it all free on an unsuspecting world to gather ad money. I’d have to look carefully at this one, but I suspect it’s one of them, as there has been a very active “My workspace” flickr photo group for years now.

    posted by Steph Mineart on 6-10-2007 at 8:47 am

  9. Steph - this one is more than just photos pulled from flickr. It focuses on illustrators and designers, and has guided text-based tours by the people themselves. So I’m assuming this is a legitimate site.

    posted by Higgins on 6-10-2007 at 3:25 pm

  10. Hi Higgins,

    I run OnMyDesk - Thanks for featuring my blog.

    I just thought I’d confirm that the blog generates no money at all.

    I have made a point in NOT including any paid advertising or google ads. It’s just not what the blog is about.

    People contact me with their photos, and their words, and I post them… Any flickr groups that exist are just a coincidence.

    posted by Linzie on 7-30-2007 at 3:34 pm

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