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#CRAFTMATTERS .03: Inspiration From Weiyan & Joyce, In Merry Motion

This short series was inspired by one of our own MATTER family members Jo, who as a last project before leaving to start her own craft jewelry brand, wanted to find out what challenges lay before her and whether it was really possible to combine craft and commerce in a place like Singapore. She spoke […]

#CRAFTMATTERS .02: An Interview with Li Ling, From When I Was Four

What Is Minimalism?

So what is this minimalism thing? It’s quite simple: to be a minimalist you must live with less than 100 things, you can’t own a car or a home or a television, you can’t have a career, you must live in exotic hard-to-pronounce places all over the world, you must start a blog, you can’t have children, […]

4 Japanese Concepts That Changed Us

MOTTAINAI – TOO GOOD TO WASTE This word is used not just for food or cloths but people as well. To paraphrase Chuzaboro Tanaka, an ethnologist who dedicated his life to discovering ordinary beauty: “I spent my childhood with my grandmother who often told me “When we die, we go to the mountains. That’s why a […]

What We’re Reading: Creative Intelligence Part I

A book from innovation expert Bruce Nussbaum and the first two creative competencies in it. Note: These are excerpts taken from the book, some of them directly, some of them paraphrased. KNOWLEDGE MINING The different ways of learning and mining knowledge to systematically enable the connection of different ideas to produce new ones. Embodiment: becoming […]

MAKING | The Basics

Back to the drawing board and remembering what we’re about.