Creative & design

I know, I know. It’s nice that I brought back Etsy Wednesday – and today I found some fun soap flasks – but am I ever going to blog anything …

Hmm. You know my feelings about the stereotype of the coloured liquids in flasks, but I have to admit that these coloured flasks are pretty. Each flask or beaker has …

This red vessel pendant by Etsy seller nervoussystem is inspired by the structure of blood vessels (and other rhyzome structures). Check out the rest of the store for more science-inspired …

I studied chemistry for my undergraduate degree, and for our first- and second year labs we had to all have our own lab coat. They were of the kind of …

Composer Edward Elgar had a chemistry lab in a shed in his yard. There’s an anecdote about this lab in Elgar’s biography by W.H. Reed, and it’s quoted verbatim in …

This amuses me. These are crayon labels that you can stick on Crayola crayons. It covers up the existing names, like “burnt orange” and “carnation pink”, and replaces them with …