Arthur Erickson | Concretions
Ricardo L. Castro, 2005. Courtesy of the Vancouver Art Gallery A passage -- the journey built -- the life's journal in design I met Arthur here, at Robson Square, decades ago, in a building of his design, while I was speaking on design, to a group of designers....
iPhone Painting | The New Yorker
Jorge Colombo | cover illustration, the New Yorker, June 2009 Starting at the beginning, the mouse, the magic, the drawn and the digital. Of course, really, it all starts here, in drawing -- the touch of the fingers, with insight, interpretation and meditation. Then...
When it’s rough, sex sells
Marketing sex, retail and the recession There's been a dire downturn, underlining the bleakly obvious. And it's been down for everyone -- everything -- everywhere. All markets -- and each of us -- everyone's been affected, crystallizing the clearly understated. There...
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...