Artefact Cards Blog

Thinking about my Creative Process

I was honoured when Tina Bernstein asked if I would be interested in contributing to the Creative Process series of guest blog posts on Colour Living – of course I...

The Perils of Inadvertently Making a Cuturematic

I’ve been reading Grant McCracken’s Culturematic this week.  I met Grant at an event last year, after Mark introduced us, and insisted that I showed Grant some Artefact Cards. “That’s...

Tulipwatch: Welcome to April

Tulipwatch continues in earnest; as you'll remember from this last entry in the Artefact diary, the basic idea is this - we're using the random Tulips in the Smithery garden...

Spring, Spring, is a wonderful thing...

If only Spring would arrive, right?  It seem strange that we're still in the midst of snow and ice and a bitter, bitter wind. And perhaps, it would not be...

The Grab & Go Shelf

   This is the last shelf you see as you leave the Smithery studio.  Full of the stuff I might need for whatever sort of thing I'm heading to.  Given...

Using Artefact Cards - Annabel Bird

  You might remember Annabel Bird, a London lifestyle blogger and interior designer, who wrote this excellent post about the Artefact Cards... we both thought it was definitely worth a...