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Design
Objects, interfaces and the quiet decisions behind them. Slow looks at how things are made and why they last.
Sep 11, 2026
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In defence of the second-best chair
The most comfortable seat in the house is rarely the one a designer would choose.
Sep 8, 2026
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Typography is a way of being polite
Good type does not ask to be noticed. It makes a long page feel like a short walk.
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Sep 1, 2026
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The last honest button
On the quiet disappearance of things you could press, and what replaced them.
Aug 30, 2026
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Cooking with the wrong tools
A year in a rented kitchen with one pan, one knife and no scale.
May 18, 2026
1 min read
Rain on a glass house
On the light inside greenhouses, and the architects who borrowed it.
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