Fixing the same chair three times
- Craft
- Repair
A kitchen chair came back to the workshop three winters in a row. Each repair taught me something the first one should have.
Ines Varga
The archive
Essays
Everything we have published, newest first. Long enough to say something, short enough to finish with a coffee.
A field guide to naming things
- Writing
- Studio
Names for a studio, a product or a typeface. The questions I ask before I write a single candidate down, and the tests a name has to pass.
Tomas Reyes
The case for a slower inbox
- Work
Our team moved from answering mail as it came in to three fixed windows a day. Response times went up a little. Everything else got better.
Abi Okonjo
What a paper notebook knows
- Tools
I have tried every app for notes. I keep going back to a notebook with numbered pages, and I think I finally understand why.
Ines Varga