If you’re one of those people who gets antsy or frustrated sitting in the same spot day after day, then maybe you just need a new office, like maybe one you can move from room to room?

Tim Vinke came up with a clever mobile office with desk and chairs, called het Kruikantoor, which is a combination of the words wheelbarrow and office. All interior elements can be combined, to which the object can be moved easily. The work is made of polystyrene with a hotspray coating on it.

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The Treasury Table, designed by Lucie Koldová for Process, looks like an ordinary table but under the top hides secret compartments for just about anything from pens to poems. The concept was inspired by the idea that creatives need specialized spaces to store their items. The table has drawers sized from A5 to A2, along with compartments perfectly sized for writing utensils. It is made of painted MDF with a matte glass on the surface.

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Designer Kitmen Keung created this nifty A4 mouse pad with a casual sloping edge to catch all those little something-somethings that come across your desk.

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I spent some time in the Luxx Box booth chatting with Jason Bird because colorful plastic things are my “shiny objects.” Luxx Box is an Australian brand created by designer Jason Bird, who uses color and fun shapes to create a more playful domestic environment.

Check out some of their great products:

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Blu Dot’s booth at ICFF was packed with new stuff this year, and it was good. So good that they won best body of work this year. I can’t say that I disagree with that decision.

Cant Desk
A cantilevered silhouette sets the stage for hard work. Or update your page so everybody knows that you just bought a sweet desk. Desktop is in a warm walnut veneer with solid walnut legs, and your choice of gray or bright red powder-coated steel accents.

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If you remember last February, I did a “Behind the Blog” feature for Apartment Therapy’s Unplggd. Well, I just did another one for one of my favorite art blogs, Ignant, which you can read here.

I recently had to move apartments so my setup looks slightly different. Ugh, the pains of being patient while you’re house-hunting and, boy — will you look at all those cables — I really need to get those in order…how embarrassing! My favorite part of my new setup is my most recent purchase: a 24″ display for my Macbook Pro. I ditched the old iMac in favor for a more portable solution (actually I still have the iMac so if you know anyone who needs one, let me know).

P.S. My desktop wallpaper is our May 2010 Designer Desktop — click here to download.

Quicktacks are colorful acrylic wall magnets designed to hold your stuff creatively where ever you like — wall, fridge, etc. They come in a pack of four acrylic disks with embedded magnets along with four self-adhesive back plates. The self-adhesive back plate is stuck to your wall allowing you to use the magnet to hold your bits and pieces.

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We’ve written about Burak Kaynak’s Share trash can before, and now he has a new design: sticky notes that look like floppy disks! These are not being mass produced, but I sure hope they do eventually. The standard solid Post-Its (even the ones in blinding colors) are so “yesterday”, and even if floppy disks are quite old school themselves, that’s what makes these sticky notes quite great.

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We noticed a trend going on these days: offices in the backyard! The convenience of just walking rather than driving to work is too good to pass up. Check out these backyard offices that allow people to get away from the house without really getting away and save the hassles of dealing with traffic, commuting costs, or space rentals.

WorkPod by Ecospace is a gorgeous, contemporary backyard office would definitely appeal to design addicts. Other than its great looks, the space is built-in the office technology you need to get your work done.

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Aaron clued me in to designer Zoe Mowat. Wowzas. This girl has created some beautiful pieces — and I love the cubbie elements included in her Desk Buddy and Contain Desk. What’s better than having everything organized and hidden?

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