Designing Icons | Chanel
Form language and brandstory: Coco Chanel There are living icons, human brands, and there are others, that create that character after their passing. Gabrielle Chanel is someone that I should write about, considering the concept of the human brand. But not now. What...
Movie titling sequences, stories and brand
The line between the story, the visualization, the brand. Story -- told. Story -- visualized. There's a thread that runs between the original telling, and the next telling in story -- and the next, and the next, and the next. One person tells a story and so does...
Canyon Ranch | Studied
I had a meeting, Sunday night, with Agnelo Fernandes from Canyon Ranch. Nice person. Nice encounter. And good potentials, I believe, to continue that track. Will explore, for more. Here are a sampling of reduced (number of) images, from that tour and shoot. Very...
The stroke, the curve, the arrangement | notes on observation
How does the framing of sight, and outcome of interpreted visualziations, drive design? And in looking -- seeing -- do you increasingly tune your sensing of visual content -- and the display of it? While it's surely impossible to define, precisely, objectively, I'm...
flowdataflow
Thinking about how things are seen, scene... scene, this -- ? the seen, the seeing, the scene? right? http://flowingdata.com/2009/01/22/visualizing-twitter-as-barack-obama-became-the-44th-president/ tableau, go. I was studying this modeling, and collided with, again,...
The Eight Senses of Experience Design
The touch, in place: silverlight Pearl. Bellevue. I've been contemplating place. And what happens in the making of place. And what happens to humans, in experience, in place. To epitomize that exploration, that meditation, what would be the best modeling? A place to...
Steve Jobs | Human Brand and Leadership at Apple
I've written about my connection with Steve Jobs several times. Working with him at Apple. Working with him at Next. Working with him at Apple. And my link to him is about looking for ways to tell his story in the context of his brilliant evocation of design and...
Shu Uemura | Exploring Brand Spirit
Exploring spirit and transition | the legacy of the Human Brand in passage Several years ago, Chie Masuyama and I were in Japan together, exploring brand development in that market, as well as meeting and presenting with Pierre Dinand, my partner in an alliance for...
True Brands | Finding authenticity in storytelling in luxury experience
A Study of Brand, Truth and Storytelling in Community As a brand consultant and designer, I've been working internationally for 35 years in finding the heart of brands. Brands, in a way, that have heart, have an especial place in my practice. Because brands that have...
Canyon Ranch | Resort brand, story and environment
Exploring the concept of wellness in experience design and environmental graphics. Two years ago, we began working on the development of the Canyon Ranch Living® | Miami concept in Miami Beach, Florida. It's open, as of a couple of weeks ago. To their position, some...