Naked Office in Japanese Magazine

Naked’s offices around the world have been featured in design magazines, usually featured for having ‘cool’ or ‘hip’ spaces. This time, Naked New York is in the spotlight for a Japanese Magazine called Brutus. I vaguely recall a group of Japanese photographers wandering through our office, months and months ago. Guess their photo work finally [...]

Unexpected Moments of Inspiration

“What inspires you” seems to be a topic of conversation amongst my friends lately. And in my humble opinion, there is nothing quite as exhilarating as finding inspiration in the least expected places, at the least expected moments.
Upon returning from an office errand, I stumbled into this cool little boutique called Na. It’s underground (literally [...]

Reclaiming Downtime

My buddy Z left a really insightful comment on my Creating Time post. He said that: “an emerging trend amongst techies/biz types. . .is to swear off facebook, twitter… or any techie-type knick knack in a somewhat ludditean attempt to reclaim the true meaning of ‘downtime’,” and left a link to an article on the [...]

Happy or Angry?

Some friends and I stopped in the MoMa design store yesterday and played with all the great gadgetry on display. As we came across a pair of salt ‘n pepper shakers, an interesting debate came up. The shakers look like this:

The question is: which is for salt and which is for pepper? My [...]

Hooray for Manifestos

One of my favorite publications, Icon, recently released its 50th issue that focused on the concept of manifestos–stating that the age of grandiose ideologies is over. Relativism and apathy reign instead. The magazine goes on to ask 50 influential architects, designers and thinkers to share their thoughts in the form of manifestos.
I read through [...]