Optimism is Optimal
The word, the work, that optimizes Working in NYC, I was rifling through my wallet, heading downtown to the office, I pulled my subway card -- which I'd noted in an earlier overview. Optimism, the MTA card There's a word, that word -- placed -- says more than the word...
Stanley Kubrick + Douglas Trumbull > Monoliths on Mars
Stanley Kubrick + Douglas Trumbull > Monoliths on Mars Seeing the imagery of a so-called "monolith" [alá 2001, A Space Odyssey from NASA on Space.com reminded me of a string of experiences -- working in Hollywood. During the development of a theatrical advertising...
BIG Japan, made elegantly small: UNIQLO CALENDAR
Uniqlo brand glow BIG Japan, made elegantly small: UNIQLO CALENDAR: NYC uniqlo | holiday | 2011 I embrace attitude. I like people that have attitude. Employees, friends, clients. And brands. I ponder, what is attitude? 300 years back, it was "posture and disposition."...
Frustro, the font and Escher, the mathematician
Frustro, Martzi Hegedüs and Escher The puzzlement of design, translated as an impossibility of form in space. A friend of mine, type and design hunter, blogger and musician, Stuart Balcomb [Los Angeles] pointed this reference out -- the font. Earlier in my career,...
THE SEMINARIUM | INTERNATIONAL RETAIL CONGRESS
Travel, brand, retail, explorations: The 9th International Retail Congress Seminarium. The focused walking-study, explorations of design and human-place, place-making, retail storytelling, cultural impressions and insight in presence. Just got back, last week. [all...
The love of place | GIRVIN|BRANDS: San Francisco, the Bay Area, Silicon Valley
A new office in one of our favorite cities: the love of place | San Francisco, the Bay Area, Silicon Valley: GIRVIN's new presence in California Building strategic intention, tracking our design heritage, Girvin returns to work in the City by the Bay. S.F. East Bay,...
You are the one | Human + Brand concepts of singularity
YOU ARE THE ONE The focus of distinguishment - the one, the only, the you. I was at Seminarium, in Lima, Perú, over the course of the last couple of days -- the focus: retail strategy. This connection started with a link, and an link -- that goes back in time. All...
Prometheus: Happy Birthday David – Story Actualization
PUSHING IMAGINATIVE LIMITS: RIDLEY SCOTT: PROMOTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR PROMETHEUS. A COUPLE OF WEEKS BACK, WE WROTE A LITTLE OF OUR HISTORY WITH THE SCOTT BROTHERS -- RIDLEY AND TONY. THAT HISTORY IS QUIET, MODEST AND LADEN WITH LEARNING. ISN'T IT SO, THAT THE MOST...
Into the mist
Time ticks as you walk in the dark, emerging or failing light -- and you realize that your true reliable momentum measure is the sound of your heels -- moment to moment: pavement, gravel, pea, grass, chipped woods, snow and ice. Each, a rhythm, a story. Here now, hear...
Cut me up café! FAB!!!
DIWO @ FAB! Digital Dimension shop, Tokyo, Japan -- from Fablab/Japan Hiroya Tanaka & Chiaki Hayashi | Fabcafé / FabLab [co]founders and Fab[lab]Visionaries/p> A CRAFTWORKS Café -- collaborative, exploratory, experimental, "hack cultural." We're thinking about,...