Four weeks ago I made the move to a stand-up work desk. For typing, note-making, proof-reading, and drawing work on both tablet and screen, as well as pen on paper, I decided to get up off of that thing and be upstanding. The idea and the motivation came from our close friend in the business of costume design, who became upwardly mobile himself just a few weeks before, and couldn’t speak highly enough of it. It is an extraordinary revelation. Having taken the measurements for

It’s no coincidence that at Picture Window I choose to present a significant portion of my client design work on canvas; proper block-mounted, and clearly with that canvas weave - and saturated with the colours of the client and the project. I’ve long been a believer in having the same style of cues around us in our places of work as we would have in the home - and even in our very grandest notions of the home. Not the same content, okay, but the same physical cues, and, yes,