The Scent of Rot
ROUGH TRADE #3 The Perfume of Refuse, Decomposition and Excrement (The third of three essays on unusual scent strategies) In the beginnings of Das Parfum, authored by Patrick Süskind, there is a grouping of expressions that I'd first read in the original German. The...
WHAT WAY, FOUND? SIGNING, SHOPFRONTS AND WAYFINDING
GALLERY VI | THE STATE OF WOWNESS* SOMETIMES, IT'S LESS ABOUT THE MERE "GO THIS WAY" [OR DON'T] AND MORE TO GO ANOTHER WAY, SCENE, SEEN, BEAUTY, TOUCHED. ARTFULLY, THIS PATH. AS A LONG RUNNING DESIGNER OF SHOPFRONTS, SIGNING SYSTEMS, LOOKING AT SIGNS AND THE MESSAGES...
THE LAYERING OF TEXT | ALPHABET RHYTHMS | GALLERY V
THE LAYERING OF TEXT | ALPHABET RHYTHMS | GALLERY V THE STATE OF WOWNESS* AS A PERPETUAL STUDENT OF THE ALPHABET, I'M PRONE TO EXAMINE THE MYSTERIES THAT LIE IN ITS STROKING -- ONE STROKE, THE FIRST, IS A LINE. ONE LINE, BEGINS THE MARKING OF THE WHO, THE WHY, THE...
THE LONG WALK | THE PROCESSION | GALLERY IV
THE STATE OF WOWNESS* IF I'M THINKING ABOUT THE WAY, THE WALKING ROUTE -- IT'S LIKE A LONG STRIDE TO THE SOMETHING THAT LIES AT THE END. THERE'S A RHYTHM, A SEQUENCING OF PILLARS THAT MARK THE TIME. STEP BY STEP. LOOKING UP, IT'S STEEP, THE RISE TO THE LIGHT THAT...
THE CENTER OF THE WORLD
ARCHITECTURAL SYMBOLISM, METAPHOR AND CENTERING Walking a old, forested Buddhist compound outside of Tokyo, I was told that the temple site was a specially sacred site -- and one that was anciently "magical." The idea of spirit spaces, places that have special power,...
LOOK UP, LOOK OUT | PRINCIPLES OF ABOVENESS
LOOK UP, LOOK OUT | PRINCIPLES OF ABOVENESS | GALLERY III THE STATE OF WOWNESS* IN THE NATURE OF SEEING, THERE ARE DIRECTIONS - THE VECTORING OF PLACE AND SITE, SIGHT SEEN AND UNSEEN. BUT IT DOES COME DOWN TO THE LOOKING - AND THE LISTENING IN THE LOOK. AS ONE STUDIES...
The Perfume of Sex
ROUGH TRADE #2 The Sense of Scent in the Most Profound and Personal Encounter (The second of two essays on unusual scent strategies) The design of the scents of evocation and emulation, storytelling legendary experiences It's been said that perfume is the ultimate...
THE SEARCH FOR LIGHT | GALLERY II
THE STATE OF WOWNESS In the exploration of design, organizing information, considering presentations and context, emotional relatedness, there are two elements that I look for in the conjunction of creative intelligence and communications to community. Content and...
THE MYSTERY OF PLACE | GALLERY I
THE STATE OF WOWNESS This is the first in a series of impressions -- a gathering of images exploring interpretations of place, way-finding, presence and historical context; none of these images are raw -- rather, each one has been tuned to emotional impressionism to...
The Script of Screen | Macintosh and the iPad
The Script of Screen | Macintosh logos, the Finger Stroke and the iDesign Environments iPad, iPhone, Air or Paper: drawing words like music Calligraphy, Steve Jobs and the Macintosh When I was working with Steve Jobs, the first job was drawing for, and with, the...