Demystifying Wabi-sabi
Haruki Murakami and the Japanese Mind
Walking home the other evening, a man passed me on a bicycle with a cat…
Hidden Beauty
From The Avant/Garde Diaries comes a beautiful film about Japanese kendo swordsmanship and the…
Design is…
I’ll save passing comment on iOS 7 for another day (short version: brave new…
Cloud Atlas Retrospective
Death. Life. Birth. Future. Present. Past. Love. Hope. Courage. An 1849 diary of an…
Yuelu Academy in Changsha
Expat or Immigrant?
When thinking about the identity of those living outside their native countries it soon…
Samsara
If you enjoyed the visual and musical tour-de-force of Koyaanisqatsi and Baraka in the…
Designing Emptiness
One of my ambitions in life is to design and build my own house.…
Marching Backwards into the Future
After leaving Shenzhen at the end of 2010 I began 2011 in a state…
Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Life
As anyone who’s read his biography will know, Steve Jobs was not particularly pleasant to the…
Design Driven Brands
Walk into almost any shop. Regard the tacky watches, the rip-off tablets, the cheap…