22nd 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 article16th October 2019 / Alan Moore
Do Build: Why Beautiful Businesses are the Future. Workshop Drawing on a lifetime’s experience and practice as a designer, artist and business innovator, Alan Moore will show you how to design and build businesses that are more relevant and needed in the world we all live in today. That build legacy, that go beyond sustainability, […]
read full article17th May 2019 / Alan Moore
I am fascinated by the connection between creativity, identity and wellbeing. Makers make for a reason. From my own journey, I know that making, and creating is central to who I am. Why? I don’t know exactly. Pauliina’s MSC research into eudaimonia and creativity, made for a fascinating read. Eudaimonia: Greek, means, “human flourishing or […]
read full article4th July 2018 / Alan Moore
Because beauty and great design appear to be so effortless, we mistake it to be easy. Or, that genius was bestowed upon its creators by some divine spirit. There is no doubt we all have gifts. But it is only when we practise daily that we develop the capacity to see, design and create work […]
read full article13th April 2018 / Alan Moore
The poet Seamus Heaney was a master craftsman of the English language. He embodied the other important characteristics of craftsmanship: a granite-like integrity and a deep empathy for the world around him. A quest for truth is always core to the purpose of a poet, to seek that which others do not see and to […]
read full article10th February 2018 / Alan Moore
Go for a walk and say this Navajo Indian prayer as you go In beauty may I walk All day long may I walk Through returning seasons may I walk On the trail marked with pollen may I walk With grasshoppers about my feet may I walk With dew about my feet may I walk […]
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