Tag Archives: "design"

As promised, here’s the new and improved design for The Happiness Project blog. At last! Re-designing a blog is a bit like renovating your kitchen. You have to think about everything you want to accomplish in the space, what’s important to you, what looks attractive, what looks attractive but doesn’t actually work very well, and how to make the place … →

Happiness interview: Grace Bonney. I’m a big fan of the wildly popular design blog Design*Sponge — “your home for all thing design” — headed up by Grace Bonney. Grace also has a new book out, Design*Sponge at Home — a kind of design “bible” with home tours, DIY projects, and lots of my personal favorite feature: before-and-afters. (Zoikes, I love … →

Happiness interview: Tina Roth Eisenberg. A few weeks ago, I heard a fascinating talk given by Tina Roth Eisenberg, who runs a well-known design blog/studio called SwissMiss. Her site is a mesmerizing collection of beautiful design which is highly addictive — once I start looking, I can’t stop. She spoke a lot about the power of good design, and also … →

Every Wednesday is Tip Day. This Wednesday: Want to be happy at work? Here are dozens of tips, plus a few quizzes to consider. One issue that comes up frequently in the area of happiness is — no surprise — the relationship of work to happiness. How to be happier at work. Why happiness is good for business. How to … →

My First Splendid Truth is: To be happier, you have to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth. Although this sounds like a simple and rather obvious formula, it took me a huge amount of time and thinking to work it out. Even once I’d come up with it, however, I didn’t understand … →