Okay, first I want to acknowledge that this month’s book club is a little late. I’ve been super behind on my reading recently, so I didn’t have any new reviews to share with you and I didn’t want to half cobble something together either on a book I hadn’t read or one from years ago,… View Post

I love walking.   Whenever I can I choose to walk, even when it’s not the quickest method, even when my friends and colleagues raise an eyebrow.   There are obvious benefits to walking. It’s a great form of exercise. It gets you away from your screen. It gets you out in the fresh air,… View Post

This is a much overdue design story. The graphite pencil is the ultimate everyday design essential, the tool that launched 10,000 masterpieces. But it has been much neglected in this series, up until now. As you might have guessed the story of the pencil starts way-way-way back. In fact, it goes back to the early… View Post