What does it take for you to try a new brand of toothpaste, or cheese or mouthwash? It turns out for me it took the Corona Virus. Check out this new column here: https://blog.42courses.com/home/2020/4/6/are-you-brand-loyal-or-just-brand-comfortable
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#MasksForAll
Karin and I spent the week creating this spread for today’s Sunday Times Lifestyle, with a free pattern, so that people can make their own masks at home. Please do share it widely. Here’s a link to the pattern if you want to download and print it, then cut it out and sew it, or…
Liquor on Lockdown
This column about liquor on lockdown, first appeared in The Sunday Times on 12th April 20Crazy. You can read it here: https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/lifestyle/2020-04-12-booze-rules-all-bets-are-off-in-lockdown/
The elegance of typos
Wrote this column for 42 Courses, on the Elegance of Typos. I’ve been working on it for ages, am totally obsessed with this subject. Hoping to add more to it as I go. Please click here to read: https://blog.42courses.com/home/2020/4/4/the-elegance-of-typos
Is this the end or the beginning?
This column first appeared here in The Sunday Times on 29th March 2020.
Where does humour come from?
Where do you think your sense of humour comes from? Is it genetic or learnt? Think about that while you click over here to read the column I wrote about it.
But why is loo paper selling out?
Wrote this column for 42courses.com, as shelves around the world are emptying of tee-pee in a bizarre episode of behavioural economics. And this is why.
The dangerous truth about sequins
Did you know that sequins are dangerous? And that beetles might just save us from them? I wrote a 4-minute read about it here.
The Microscope Guy
I wrote a 5-minute read about The Microscope guy (AKA Manu Prakash) from Design Indaba 2020. When he was six he stole his brother’s spectacles to build his first microscope. It did not go well for him (or his brother). Fortunately his next attempt went a little better. Read about it here on 42Courses. Which…
The Bird Architect
Jeanne Gang is a bird watcher stroke architect stroke smarty pants, stroke bee keeper. She has an architectural design firm in USA. Here’s the column I wrote for 42courses.com about the building she designed that helps save some of the 1 billion birds who fly into skyscrapers in N. America every year. It’s a building…