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I enjoy books (more so audio books than reading), but I don't consume them very much or as often as I'd like.

I think I've spent almost every day for the past 10+ years thinking about design and designers, as well as architects and artists.

In the spring of 2022, I had a call with Stefan Jandl, who runs Favorit Studio.

If something is 100% functional, it is always beautiful.

I'm currently facing a design and marketing challenge related to minimalism.

Care in design is ultimately about feeling rather than seeing.

In the summer of 2021 I made the decision to plan a house project.

I first met Manu Moreale (online) about five years ago when I asked for his help to rescue the Minimalissimo website after an unnamed agency created a shit-show that left me down a similarly named creek without a paddle.

I write without the intention of this being just another rant about social media algorithms.

A new design, a new version, a new era, a new chapter, a new wave, a new vibe.

My home office setup has changed quite lot over the past few months.

My search for an alternative community platform has led me back to, yes, Twitter.

This is a follow-up to Manu's article on the same subject.

I am diving into a new project that is focused on generative art.

I previously wrote about Minimalissimo's return to print and with it, a fresh art direction and finish.

I recently discovered a website that brilliantly illustrates the state of user experience (UX) design on today’s web.

Over the past few years I have been trying to seek out alternatives to the mainstream social media platforms.

People typically self-reflect at the start of the year and the end of the year.

This is a response to Manu's post, Adoption Sponsorships.

I have been longing for a more enjoyable and unpredictable web experience for a while, and one that is less focused on commercialism.

This week I was faced with an unusual situation.

I recently read an article by Tom MacWright on fancy software tools.

“Print is dead!”

I shared my workspace setup last year, but since then, I have changed a few things, so I felt it’s probably time to share an update on my current setup for both hardware and software.

3D printing is a process that creates a three-dimensional object by building successive layers of raw material.

Over the course of 2020, I have been making efforts to create a Minimalissimo LAB.

Minimalism in design has been engrained within my thinking ever since I was introduced to the work of Dieter Rams.

I previously wrote about the beauty of 3D printing and how in recent years, we have seen incredible advancements and accessibility to technologies that have impacted the health sector and everyday consumers. 3D printing is still a very new concept to most…

Minimalism can be perceived in different ways, as it should be, because there are in fact many nuances to the movement.

An annual review of the minimal phone setup sees it considerably different from last year, yet a lot has remained the same.

Here we go again.

In late spring of 2020, Minimalissimo introduced a membership platform as a means to generate passive income for greater sustainability, engage more with our community, design things members can use, discover how advertisement-free reading is valued, and…

I have never been a particularly big reader.

Over the past three months or so I have been working on creating an ebook (and perhaps a printed edition to boot) for Minimalism Life—a side project I cofounded back in 2016.

In recent months, you might have found yourself with an abundance of time that has come to you unexpectedly.

I recently read an interesting article by Buster Benson that touches on the notion of “modes”.

How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web more energy efficient?

Allowing readers or fans of your work to financially support you is nothing new.

Throughout 2019 I was using Android, which was an interesting experiment.

A while ago I published a couple of articles on selling digital products and monetising minimalism.

You’ve probably heard the term ‘white space’ before, which is also often referred to as negative space and is used widely in digital and print design.

Whether we like it or not, we are currently living more isolated lives, and for some people a life of solitude.

As more of us are working remotely—particularly from home—I thought it might be quite timely to break down my current home workspace setup.

In early 2019, I came to the realisation that people prefer to read about people more than they do about things.

Over the past decade, the debate between print and digital has been prevalent.

I love designing websites.

Many people are choosing to slowly improve, enhance, and invigorate their living spaces by making subtle but significant changes to their homes with the addition of good quality, easily transportable furniture and fittings.

Has Minimalissimo really been running for 10 years?!

It may came as no surprise that one of the most influential figures in my life (whether he knows it or not) is the renowned German industrial designer, Dieter Rams.

Are we spending enough time with people we can really learn from?