Frank’s RedHot Vodka Cocktail
T H E S T O R Y O F C H R I S P F E I F E R -- A M A N A N D A D R E A M AND FRANK'S REDHOT! What if you had a dream -- the perfect new beverage composite -- a packaged innovation? How would you make it so? Happily coalescing an amazing...
Girvin Signage = Word Photography | One sign, another mark: just words, gathered
Just where, really -- are you going? And, if you're going, are you growing? And why, might be? Shooting words leads to the meditation on their meaning. Sure, you're thinking that you know what they mean, but what lies beneath that word -- could there be a hidden...
Stephen Kenn > expansions > Manly men | designing for them — stories about them
Stephen Kenn > Manly men brands | designing for them -- building brand + personal stories about them Embracing the masculine spirit, design, thinking, story and truth in offering. Thinking about a man, and designing for men -- it's a challenging meditation, given...
smoke + art | the wavy line
The captivation of smoke. Smoke signals, fire, designed motion. [parfumare -- "to smoke through."] The layering of smoke, art, incense, color and the tinting of dust -- the tracery of par fum. The smoky signals of journey. I was contemplating dust, the drifting mote...
Guy Laramee bookwork in transformation
The book, that is the leaf of time, space that becomes place and a world. Guy Laramee bookwork in transformation -- presented by Foster White Gallery, Seattle A friend of mine pointed out a show, of an artist -- with a broad vocabulary of explorations, Guy Laramee --...
Building a Wave, Incubation
Building a wave, rippling out innovation and incubation strategies In the past, [1943 / Burbank] there was a team that built a remote, offsite-working, brainstorming and product innovation model called the skunkworks. Supposedly, the origination of the skunkworks...
What I have learned in one day
What I have learned in one day is t h a t : ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– E V E R Y D A Y i s a J O U R N E Y [SMALL OR LARGE] ––– That: however long, difficult or winding these stairs might be -- their point is to take you to another point of view, another...
100 years | The Eagle Scout
The Legacy of the Eagle Scout Award This year, the badge and legacy of the Eagle Scout reaches back a century. In the Girvin family, this is a potent tradition. All of the Girvin brothers are Eagles. And the tradition of scouting runs passionately deep in our...
The Watch
The Focus of Watch Fullness, Studying the Terrain Around You. I was hiking and, to every horizon line, path, water-lined and sanded beach and I studied the wind, the insects' movement, the course of birds, the turning light and colour of green-cast tree-light. And --...
The Evil that Men Shall Do: The Dragon Tattoo Brand Design Strategy
Logos, fonts, custom alphabets and design strategies: from one sheet to main titles WORKING AS A DESIGNER IN THE THEATRICAL BRANDING Design / Strategy market, the "instinctually" founded process is pebbled with uncertainty and the foibles of a largely intuitive and...