Artefact Cards Blog

Draw what you’re thinking about

I’m reading ‘The Thinking Hand’ by Juhanni Pallasmaa again. A great passage from it: “Sketching and drawing are spatial and haptic exercises that fuse the external reality of space and...

Make Your Marks Like Tony Stark

For the last four months, I've been working on and off around making a new Artefact Cards product, based on what a fair number of people were asking for.   That's...

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...

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...