Redefining "Handy" and Learning How to Make Things

It’s easy to understand why crafty brands suddenly have so much appeal right now: with the boundaries between work and life becoming extremely blurred, people are seeking ways to put a full stop at the end of their working day. Activities that don’t require a screen – or, even better, stop you from being able to reach for your phone – have been on ... See more

A decline in tool use would seem to betoken a shift in our relationship to our own stuff: more passive and more dependent. And indeed, there are fewer occasions for the kind of spiritedness that is called forth when we take things in hand for ourselves, whether to fix them or to make them. What ordinary people once made, they buy; and what they onc... See more