Why do Humans Long for Sensory Analogue Connections?

The Scratch Before the Song

There is a kind of magic that lives in the moment just before a record plays—the faint click of the tonearm, the slow spiral descent, the quiet crackle like kindling catching fire. Then, the music begins—but not perfectly. Not clinically. It breathes. It pops. It hisses. It sounds alive.

A Design Ethos of Strategy, Structure, and the Physiological Poetry of Space

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

— Steve Jobs

Design is not simply the art of making things beautiful. It is the profound science of making things human. Human hospitality, as a design ethos, does not begin with style guides or mood boards, but with strategy and structure—those primordial coordinates that allow the human being, in all their complexity, to feel at ease.

In the Age of the Coming Wave

I’m Andy. I’m older than I’d like to look, a bit overweight, and I probably work too much. In short: I’m human.

Lately I’ve been reflecting on what that really means in a world that seems increasingly determined to digitise, quantify, and optimise every aspect of our existence. We live in an age that fights relentlessly for our attention, often with only superficial rewards or hollow justifications for doing so.