Allison Arieff wrote a thought-provoking blog for the New York Times this week on the sad state of design thinking regarding office environments. She mentioned recent articles on office design in Fast Company [see Redesigning the cubicle, http://www.newwow.net/node/62#comment-1334 ] and The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) [see Designers tackle the private office, http://www.newwow.net/node/2152 ].