PingMags’s Chiemi wrote an interesting article which started with the question “Can I see your desk?” emailed to people and friends they’ve interviewed in the past. Primarily artists and designers from the UK and Japan responded with images of sometimes orderly, sometimes untidy desks and working environments. Interesting to note are the sorts of desks, computer setups, books, chairs, paintings, notepads, tools and other creative artifacts that makeup the ambience of the individual work spaces. Check the Desk Project set over on Flickr for some images that didn’t make it to the article, and dig Atsushi Toyama’s comment:

I live in Handa in Aichi prefecture. My studio is in an attic of a very old temple. This attic was used as a study by a professor of uni before, I really love the big desk which is very good to make a big paintings. When I moved to this place, I looked under the desk to put some stuff… And I found a mysterious hole which is big enough to crawl along…!! I think it’s connected to somewhere by the ceiling of main room, but I’m too scared and can not check it by myself. Sometimes I can feel warm gentle breeze coming from the hole. So I covered it with a canvas one day. I haven’t touched it since then…If you are up for checking the hole for me, you are very welcome. But it’s not my fault even if you can’t come back from the hole. If you find some treasure I can give you 10% of that. Maybe the hole is the exit of next life… I don’t know… My imagination about this hole will never end…