The specification nobody prints
Two lamps with identical numbers on the box can feel completely different by six in the evening. The difference is flicker, and it is almost never on the box.
Journal
Notes on the objects, the materials and the decisions behind them.
Why 65% and not 60%
Sixty per cent photographs beautifully and hides your arrow keys behind a layer. Five per cent more board gets them back.
Bound edges, and why felt frays
Laser-cut felt looks sharper on day one. A year of a mouse crossing the same edge tells a different story.
Getting two rose objects to be the same rose
Anodised aluminium, powder-coated steel and dyed wool arrive at colour by three unrelated processes. Matching them is not a design decision, it is a scheduling one.
A metre away changes everything
Most speaker advice assumes you are across the room. At a desk you are not, and almost all of it inverts.
In defence of the tray
Every desk has objects that resist being organised. A tray is not a filing system; it is a truce.