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Demystifying Wabi-sabi

Culture, Design, History, Japan 31st October 201525th January 2022 Comments 7 11 min read

Haruki Murakami and the Japanese Mind

Walking home the other evening, a man passed me on a bicycle with a cat…
Culture, Japan 11th May 201418th August 2022 Comments 0 2 min read

Hidden Beauty

From The Avant/Garde Diaries comes a beautiful film about Japanese kendo swordsmanship and the…
Culture, Japan 6th March 201421st January 2022 Comments 0 1 min read

Design is…

I’ll save passing comment on iOS 7 for another day (short version: brave new…
Design, Technology 11th June 201321st January 2022 Comments 3 1 min read

Cloud Atlas Retrospective

Death. Life. Birth. Future. Present. Past. Love. Hope. Courage. An 1849 diary of an…
Film 20th March 201324th August 2022 Comments 0 1 min read

Yuelu Academy in Changsha

China, History, Travel 22nd August 201229th December 2021 Comments 6 2 min read

Expat or Immigrant?

When thinking about the identity of those living outside their native countries it soon…
Culture, Rant 11th August 201223rd August 2022 Comments 15 2 min read

Samsara

If you enjoyed the visual and musical tour-de-force of Koyaanisqatsi and Baraka in the…
Culture, Film 27th July 201218th February 2022 Comments 0 1 min read

Designing Emptiness

One of my ambitions in life is to design and build my own house.…
Architecture, Design, Japan 9th February 201223rd January 2020 Comments 2 4 min read

Marching Backwards into the Future

After leaving Shenzhen at the end of 2010 I began 2011 in a state…
General, London, Norwich, Travel 8th January 20124th January 2022 Comment 1 2 min read

Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Life

As anyone who’s read his biography will know, Steve Jobs was not particularly pleasant to the…
Design, General 3rd December 201125th August 2022 Comments 3 1 min read

Design Driven Brands

Walk into almost any shop. Regard the tacky watches, the rip-off tablets, the cheap…
Design, Technology 3rd December 20119th January 2022 Comments 3 8 min read

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