“Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with golden lacquer. It teaches us to embrace damage and flaws.” — ManGill. For most of my adult life I have helped repair the sick. Many had their lives suddenly shattered and altered forever. It was a job at which I was quite good. Recently, the… Read more

“the world is not a right angle…” Zaha Hadid When you blog a lot, it is easy to end up down quite a few rabbit holes. So it was that recently I was reading an email spruiking the 2026 Helsinki Design week, which happened to open last week. Kari Korkman the curator of said event… Read more

“I may be a twin, but I am one of a kind…” Jerry Smith So here we have in no particular order, a Chinese Jinhao 194 and a German Mont Blanc 149. See what they did there. I am the lucky owner of both these fountain pens. One is made of precious resin, the other… Read more