In days of yore, offices were strictly utilitarian. People went to their cubicles to work, not to socialize or lean back and luxuriate in the opulence of a designer-decorated space. Accordingly, the choice of furniture reflected this austere, no-nonsense outlook - plain, dark, and sturdy.
Today, offices the whole world over undergo a massive overhaul. Some [...]

What are you after each time you try out a new restaurant? Is it the food? The service? The location? The ambiance? The prestige? If it’s a unique dining experience you’re after, the principle of trying something new rather than getting something familiar, trusty, and delicious, then let Roddy Jones map out your next dining [...]

What’s in a design? Plenty — and we’re not just talking of clothes, handbags, and accessories here. Design, wherever it may be found, can range from the ridiculous to the sublime and elicit a wide range of responses from “Eew” to “Aaah” and even “Get out of here!”
Today, let’s take a break from suits, sunglasses, [...]

Quirky is cute but not when you take it to the office. To be taken seriously by your colleagues and bosses, it’s not enough to be efficient. You have to look it, too.
Of course, if you’re trying to get fired pronto (because if you resign, you’re required to give two month’s notice and there’s this [...]

Who says that the only thing urban professionals do is work? Why, they do fun things, too! They go to parties, clubs, and bars, and are not averse to getting drunk. They also go on holidays. And not just any, old holiday, mind you – they go on the really fantastic ones to the most [...]

What would the future be without laundry? Would people dress better? Change clothes more often? Shop less? Would the detergent industry fold like a pack of cards, deprived as it is of a laundry-doing market?
If scientists had their way, you would never have to do laundry again — in the future, anyway. They want a [...]

RoddyJones has a visitor — and no, it’s not the cattle-mutilating, crop circle-making kind. Oigen is Eugen Soman, a copywriter who writes of electric bolts and shapes beneath the skin. He’s 25, male, from Bucharest, and rants about movies, literature, and ads. He describes his fashion as “unusual” but I’m reserving judgment until I actually [...]