The last time Halley’s Comet streamed across the night sky, although I was quite young I remember there being a song and dance about it. Commemorative wines were made, children and nerds alike were emblazoned with the shooting star’s branded flotsam and I’m certain 1986′s club scene dedicated entire parties to the coming of the [...]

We might be in the midst of a full moon cycle, but that needn't mean that you don't get any rest.

No doubt you’ve sat those weary haunches of yours in Mies van der Rohe’s “Barcelona” chair (or something resembling it) whilst waiting to meet with the editor of a fashion magazine, sipping on a martini before lunchtime in your advertising job or just generally living the highlife in your glorious home. Designed in 1929 for [...]

Most grown men (and women) can’t seem to remember where cleaning clothing goes—away. Often it remains in the laundry basket until the next load is done, when it’s relegated hurriedly to “Hamburger Hill”—an ever-growing mound on top of the bed—in the spare bedroom. It’s terrible habit with which most can identify, but what if it were stamped [...]

You might not know this, but I’m a bit of a bandit for a cheap Jack shop. The notion of buying a lifetime’s supply of cotton tips for a couple of dollars—in three colour-ways, no less—gets me off to no end and this obsession with bargain stores follows me wherever I travel. When I would make [...]

Anyone who has ever worked in a design studio knows that if things aren’t bolted down, they grow legs and walk. Taiwanese-turned-British designer, Yting Cheng has created a conceptual line of office furniture and accessories that can foil even the most cunning of light fingers. See them in action in this video: I’m extremely embarrassed [...]