Tag Archives: Storytelling
May 13, 2013
The nest, the egg, the weaving of the Matrix
The Whorl of Making and Imagination Sometimes when I’m thinking about a challenge, working my way throughout a complex puzzle — I draw my self into it, and out of it. Above, my little finger on an iPhone.
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May 10, 2013
Studying the Eye and the Touch of Seeing
Studying the Eye, In sight and the Touch of Seeing The Rhythm of Insight, Seeing-In — 1000 Eyes – the brushstrokes of Storytelling, the Rippling of Imagination I was looking into the eyes of a dragonfly that I’d arranged on … Continue reading
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March 22, 2013
Brand, story, object and ritual. The art of the axe, chopping wood, arranging wood, starting fires, it holds a string of stories for many. Being in Portland, a proverbial city of the Axe, has built a culture around the axe. … Continue reading
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March 20, 2013
Strokes of Goodness, The Freedom Signature
The Marking of Meaning, Goodness and Brand Storytelling. We think about the idea of design as a kind of signature — with mind, motion, memory and meaning. What is design — but the sign, illustrated. And of course, to signing … Continue reading
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March 15, 2013
The symbolism of the window Thinking design / portals of storytelling / brand / story / insight. In the window to experience, you see in: in=sight. In the window to the object: circumspect — you walk around, surveil from the … Continue reading
March 13, 2013
Twister | Kiev
The metaphor of the story, the storm
Designing story, in place, the allegory of nature, space — in making a place I find myself in the study of the symbolic, the metaphorical – and, to the end, the magical. I recall when Apple defined the iPad as … Continue reading
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March 8, 2013
The writing of the eternal return: the perpetual script of spinning time When you contemplate the road forward, there’s a chance to look back, the path that brought you to where you are. [image above, from http://mattgirvin.org/] It’s difficult work, … Continue reading
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March 4, 2013
The farmer in you | II Planting the seeds of ideals, dreams, the promise in the mission of creativity I’d written a blog, just back, with meditations on the archetypal character of Dodge’s “farmer in you” advertising. Storytelling from various … Continue reading
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February 27, 2013
In the spirit of light, storytelling illumination. The character of what can be seen, in scene, the drama of Light. As an intensely curious person — a person that seeks out answers by finding the people that build things, do … Continue reading
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February 19, 2013
The Metaphor of the Deeper Storytelling in Brand, the Undercurrent of Persona; the Dodge Farmer Ad, Super Bowl The bigger allegories in archetypal positioning.
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