![]() ![]() Instead it’s natural and rustic, corners rounded like a Macbook, well-suited to sitting on a pale wood desk used by a hipster creative (although I can’t count myself in that crowd any longer). There’s no stitching, the edges aren’t fully burnished, there’s no detailing. This is not an executive-style desk blotter for some lawyer in a suit. I expect that daily use and the oils from my hands will change the colours quite dramatically over the years. The finish and colouring is even and the mat is only a few mm thick. Unlike some of Galen’s “crazy horse” finishes, the desk mat isn’t a heavy leather, nor is it marked and scarred. See here against my Franklin-Christoph Penvelope in boot brown, the Galen has a lot more orange in it. More of a chestnut colour, like saddle leather. I am completely lacking in imagination so I went for classic ‘brown’, which is just the shade I hoped: darker than tan, but not a true dark brown. You can choose your Galen desk pad in seven standard colours, or they’ll even dye it to a custom colour, as well as adding embossed initials to personalise it. The Galen could not be a bigger contrast. On my desk, this mat from Galen replaces a clear plastic/rubber one from IKEA, which was functional but never beautiful. If you have a glass or metal desk (my last one was glass), a desk mat is much nicer on the skin in the morning than cold glass! A desk mat dampens the noise of a keyboard, and serves as a mouse mat (although I happen to use a trackball). It gives you a cushioned place to rest your wrists and place your essentials, preventing scratches and dents both to delicate objects like pens, and to your wooden desk surface. ![]() Let my words fill you in instead.įor me a desk pad is an essential item for any workspace. So I hope you’ll forgive me if there aren’t many beautiful wide-angle, in situ shots of the Galen Leather Desk Pad in this review. Without labouring the point, the idea of photographing my desk setup to show off a new desk accessory fills me with dread and a little bit of shame. And I drink my coffee from giant dented travel mugs that carry me through a marathon Webex session. Even in summer the light is often dulled by English rainclouds. My IKEA desk chair has a noticeable bum-shaped depression in its cushion (and a huge stain from Iroshizuku Kiri-Same). Ugly wires trail behind to an all-too-visible power strip. My well-worn black work-issue Thinkpad is no pretty Macbook. An artisan poncho draped over the back of an uncomfortable-looking cafe chair.Īnd this is where the dream falls apart for me.Īlas (as I’ve shared before) mine is a working desk, covered in scratches and a little dusty, even when I keep it tidy. Zoom out, pan back: a city view with perfect sunlight streaming through gossamer blinds. The kind of space that’s perfect for a flat-lay pocket dump. And it’ll do wonders for yours too.īelow are 12 of the best desk pads to refurbish and protect your work desk.I want to have an Instagrammable desk, I really do. I was also impressed with the look upgrade my desk pad offered: sophisticated, spruced up, covered up (especially the signs of wear and tear). It doesn't advise too strongly on what goes where, but having one on my desk did induce me to arrange objects nicely within the rectangle. Everything looks orderly, but also, just busy enough. I don’t trust myself, but I do trust a good desk pad.ĭesk pads, blotters, or mats-however you call them–help us stay organized. And to stop myself from reverting, I knew certain methods of organization needed to be adopted. Facing drink spills and USB cords tangled with sticky notes for hours took a toll on my focus. But then, WFH hit, and each workday morning, it felt like the clutter was yelling at me. So naturally, everything I put on it went unorganized. My hand-me-down desk had scratches all over and looked hopeless of any salvation. Not because I was feigning creative genius, I was just too lazy to tidy up. I was in the first group for a long time. Another one follows the empirical evidence that a cluttered desk raises stress levels and kills productivity. One adheres to the Einstein belief that a cluttered desk means a cluttered mind, that it signals a genius who brews ideas after ideas. There are two schools of thought regarding desk setup. ![]()
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