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Last 50 Posts

• Crosscutting Checkpoint

• Audience, Considered

• Taking Up the Challenge

• A Call to Arms

• The messages that stick with us

• Studio Furniture in the Big Tent

• Art Westport 2008 is here!

• Recently featured on Moleskinerie

• Moleskine confessional

• Harvesting urban lumber

• Keep the comments coming

• Exploring with the new router

• Taking the long view

• It doesn’t get any better than this

• Current Work: David’s Bed

• Study Time

• Stickley Writing Desk in Quartersawn Oak

• Creativity and corporate life

• Dyslexia from the film director’s point of view

• A (good) bad habit

• Natalie Marrone “keeps up” with Cecil Vortex

• On rejection and quality

• Opening up about depression

• Playing with form

• Rags and (saw)dust

• Oven range, home on the range, range of motion…

• Dan Wilson shares his process with the Vortex

• Politics and Creativity

• Bob Mondello finds a common thread in upcoming films

• The Case for Innate Creativity

• Demetri Martin interview worth a listen

• Robert Lang on perserverance

• Creative standstill, and the path forward

• A Furniture Aesthetic

• Choose your tribe

• Productivity Tools for Art

• Krenov on Composition

• The practice of gathering, Part II

• A Process for Composition

• Creativity and the practice of gathering, Part I

• When It’s Time to Kill the Buddha

• Work in progress: Writing Desk

• Just say NO to half-hearted commitments

• Favorite Quotes

• The art of reading

• Chris Schwarz takes on creative paralysis

• Clark Kellogg, Craftsman

• What, me blog?

• constructive interference

• The ups and downs of creativity