Artefact Cards Blog

Tulipmania: The Original Product Description

This was the original product entry for Tulipmania, the 2013 Spring Artefact Cards edition.  It went badly wrong, though, and has therefore changed.... --------------------- Tulipmania was an economic phenomenon we...

The Do Lectures: notes from a field

I was lucky enough to be at The Do Lectures Start Up the other weekend. There are many stories to be shared from that another day, especially around the ‘start...

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...