one thing i've come to realise having lived alone for a couple of years is just how important a role music - and sound in general - plays in my life. i'm someone who has always appreciated the peace and harmony of silence but when you experience too much of it, silence can become isolating. i don't think i've ever ...
#shopthefuture
i don’t know about you, but i’m absolutely fascinated by the role technology plays in our daily lives and just how much ‘smart technology’ has developed over the past four or five years. can you remember a time when we didn’t all track our exercise regime or sleep patterns via a wristband, or control music playlist through voice command? pause ...
deep clean
do you have a weekly - or indeed, more frequent - cleaning regime in your home? i don't know about you, but i often find cleaning the house thoroughly gives me a great sense of accomplishment, and provides a wonderful boost to my sense of wellbeing when i step back to see the 'chaos' gone and calm order restored to my living quarters. since ...
performance made personal
as a design blogger and freelance pr consultant, i spend a lot of my time on the go – always in and out of coffee shops, co-working spaces, design shops, galleries – you name it. and pretty much everywhere i go my laptop comes too! the beauty of blogging – or any contemporary business built to run online – ...
every breath we take
just how healthy are the homes we live in? since i posted about oliver heath’s principles for a healthier, happier home recently, i've been thinking a lot about one of the sensory aspects that i didn’t expand greatly on - air quality. it's been a huge topic in the news of late, and while many of us worry about air pollution when ...
a pure pleasure
video killed the radio star, right? well, as it happens, not quite. as the pioneers of digital radio, pure have become the world’s leading digital radio manufacturer, selling over 5 million radios worldwide since their launch in 1999. this statistic comes as no surprise to me, given that all of my closest friends have pure radios in their homes, perhaps even as ...