29th January 2022 / Alan Moore
Do Design. Why Beauty is Key to Everything from Alan Moore on Vimeo. We are creative beings. We love to make things. This book will inspire you to create better things for better reasons. Things that people will love – for a long time to come. Some say beauty is a luxury. But what if […]
read full article22nd November 2019 / Alan Moore
Hugo and Fred build motorcycles. They build them from discarded older motorbikes, curating their builds using the frames, engines, petrol tanks and handlebars from machines of another time. They call their company Blitz — as in giving new life, new energy, new purpose, to old motorcycles. Possessed with an aesthetic vision of how these motorcycles […]
read full article30th November 2018 / Alan Moore
The philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson said the question of beauty takes us from surfaces into thinking about the core foundations of things. This insight is vital to understanding that good design can touch all our lives in the minutest detail – and good design is foundational to beauty and what we bring into our world. […]
read full article21st October 2018 / Alan Moore
Beautiful things are prepared with love. Beautiful experiences lift the human spirit. They say, optimistically, life is worthwhile. If we can be more beautiful in our thoughts and in our actions, we can learn to live and work more beautifully. We’ve all had enough of ugly. This is the fourth ‘Living Beautifully Compendium’. It shows […]
read full article1st July 2018 / Alan Moore
I have been invited to speak at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 15th August 1018. Whitespace, Norloch House, 36 King’s Stables Road, Edinburgh, EH1 2EU Tickets available here. Our Future is Made and Finished in Beauty The human spirit needs beauty and will do anything given half a chance to get more of it. As Emerson […]
read full article20th June 2018 / Alan Moore
Recently I dropped in to say hello to Architect Alison Brooks. We had connected through our joint interest in beauty. Our conversation ranged over why beauty has been lost as a framework in architecture and what the implications were. That beauty can be and is in fact universal. Alison has recently written and published a […]
read full article16th May 2018 / Alan Moore
In my book “Do Design. Why beauty is key to everything“, I write about Tashi Mannox and the importance of stillness as a key role in how we work. A concept that can be applied to our daily life, I believe. Tashi Mannox had become a Tibetan monk at the age of 22, spending 17 […]
read full article22nd March 2018 / Alan Moore
What would your business look like were it more beautiful? I have always been fascinated by beautiful things: landscape, architecture, furniture, tools, books, music, words as stories, food, businesses. Beautiful things are prepared with love. The act of creating something of beauty is a way of bringing good into the world. Infused with optimism, it […]
27th February 2018 / Alan Moore
Over the last year, I have been prototyping ‘The Beautiful Leaders Programme’. I have spent time looking at a range of businesses that inspire a different way of looking at the world. I went in search of profitable businesses across the globe that are enduringly beautiful. From that inspiring journey came an extensive record of […]
read full article10th February 2018 / Alan Moore
I have recently been reading Alex Kerr’s intriguing book, Lost Japan. It was a serendipitous moment picking it up in the local bookshop. What a book about such an amazing life journey. It is the concept of Ma that captures my curiosity. Kerr explains, “‘Ma’ — the special appeal of Japanese music lies almost completely in its […]
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