Essays

All thinking and writing works in progress

  1. Consider the chair

    In pursuit of the perfect way to sit.

    8 min read
  2. The Roads Not Taken

    The art of allowing oneself to get a little lost.

    6 min read
  3. A Wasted Life

    Design, creativity, and the pursuit of an active life.

    6 min read
  4. Design and deceit

    On the fun of forgery and how it helps shape designers.

    6 min read
  5. The only constant

    Reflections on the authorship of design artefacts that live a life beyond the hands of those who craft them.

    5 min read
  6. Tooling and feeling

    On the tools that shape us, the intelligence of machines, and what it means to feel.

    9 min read
  7. Provocation as praxis

    Considering the role of design in asking questions, not just providing solutions.

    5 min read
  8. The skin of the world

    How smart devices have transformed our sense of scale, blurring the boundaries between self and other.

    4 min read
  9. Thinking without feet

    How spatial metaphors and cognitive processes rooted in our embodied experience of the physical world help us comprehend and navigate digital worlds.

    5 min read
  10. Encounters with the past

    Exploring the tension between the practical and impractical, and how our perception of an object's value can be shaped by its context and history.

    4 min read