The Standing Desks
Everything DOHOMI publishes lives in one of six standing departments — the recurring frames through which we keep looking at modern life.
What it feels like to be a noticing person right now — focus, distraction and the senses, what we look at and what we choose not to, and what it quietly costs us. The hinge department; the one everything else turns on.
Design, tools, technology and craft — objects with stories, and the judgment that separates the competent from the correct. Taste, repair, the things we keep.
Cities, rooms and architecture — where life actually happens. The empty room, the third place, the spaces that ask nothing of you and the ones that ask too much.
Ambition, money, vocation — the office and its slow undoing. What we do all day, why we do it, and what it does to us in return.
Time, philosophy, the future — the essays that take their time. Slow conclusions about a fast world. Where the feature usually lives.
Short observations and the precisely strange, overheard from modern life — the small, exact things we keep not quite mentioning to each other. Read the latest →