Milton Glaser
A voyage of inspired imagination. When you are young, you recall points of connection that are unmistakably remarkable, they are life changing -- dynamically shifting you from one point of view to another. Or, they might too suggest moments of new discovering -- that...
Wolfram|Alpha > Seek and you shall ponder
Knowledge work, navigated -- the endless quest for answers. For decades, the work of Girvin really has been about the reorganization of information. That is, the re-forming of form, in the content of comprehension. All of these words are meaningful to me; and they've...
Paul Farmer: as story told, life unfolds
Healing, storytelling and the wisdom of Aesculapius One would presume that physicians are storytellers -- guiding patients in transitions that are gathered from layers of experience in the sphere of living, teaching, healing, and the practice of medicine. Many are...
The Evocation of Trauma: The Harborview Story
Storytelling the birth of emergency care in Seattle -- and the US. How many of us have been in an ambulance? How many in an accident? An emergency room? A trauma center? Personally, I've been in none -- as a patient. But I've guided many to them. I've ridden in...
Cinematic production design and brand identity
Examining the concept of set design, visuals and production reflected in experience and branding: It took me a long time to determine whether this structure for the film Quantum of Solace was real, or a production design concept for the movie. As it was, the building...
Scott Oki | Precepts of Outrageous Learning
Scott Oki reaches to his roots in newly founding concepts of how learning benefits the advancement of our culture. My connection with Scott Oki is long running. And in every aspect of my relationship with him, it's been a journey in learning. From him, I've learned...
Maya Lin | Wavefield at Storm King
The examination of nature, replayed in Nature All of us sense the power of the natural, when we can -- and when we have the minute to suddenly step out of the urban workworld, and settle into our place in the natural surroundings, which -- now and again -- we can...
Explorations at Girvin | The Retail Design Institute
Storytelling in retail design As designers, there's a patterning to be explored, something to be seen, sensed, experienced in the making of place and the character of brand, in story -- and the telling of retail. Girvin card deck, obverse puzzle assembly by Alyce...
Stay Calm, Don’t Panic and Tread Well.
Classic British design, calmly repackaged in the face of fear. I'm sure you've seen this. (image: Graham Turner | WWII propaganda poster, Woodbridge, UK) If you've been in London, you would've seen it there -- festooned, on the walls, an occasional tube posting....
DOORS: Conceiving new models in storytelling in cultural events management and marketing
Seattle Theatre Group's Celebration of the Arts, in a Newly Defined Event Modeling: Doorways for everyone. During these times, the present financial travails, there are challenges to virtually every institution -- regardless of the scale, the import of their funding,...