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THE GEOMETRY OF SPIRITUALITY–SACRAL ALIGNMENTS
EVERYONE HAS A CHALLENGING TIME. “WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THAT TIME?” How do you get through that? There are a couple of pathways for me. Reading is one— reading, a lot. Another is drawing—in two pathways of work; one: more as in a non-thinking fluency-based form of...
BOOM | THE IGNITION OF IDEAS, THE SPARK OF INSPIRATION
IS IT THAT THE GREAT IDEA IS A LIGHTNING STRIKE? OR IS IT A BURGEONING STORM? THE BRILLIANT, SCINTILLANT IDEA EMERGES AS A BREEZE—A SOFT TELLING, THEN THAT SHALL BECOME A WIND-RIVEN ROAR. There’s a question—the how of inspired idea[l]s—which could come as a lightning...
MICROLIVING | BRANDING TINY PLACES
Working in Asia, as well as other parts of the planet, particularly in emerging economies, the notion of tinier living environments is well implemented—needfully so. Big living environments are—everywhere—far more costly and mostly less efficient than smaller...
CHAINMAIL IS FOR STORYTELLING
SOMETIMES YOU GO BACKWARDS IN TIME TO GO FORWARDS TO THE FUTURE. AND THE SYMBOLISM OF THE INTERLOCKING CHAIN OF MANY STORIES FORMS THE TRAIL OF A TALE, A NARRATIVE THREAD—WHICH COULD BE FROM THE PAST, WHICH COMES TO THE PRESENT, WOVEN IN THE INTERLINKED...
SUSPECT ZERO | BRAND THINKING ON “REMOTE VIEWING”?
We’re all living in a time of “remote viewing” that optimistically will soon be coming to some kind of closure.
THE SYMBOLISM OF THE DRAGON
THE MIGRATION OF SIGILS, SIGNETS AND PATTERNS Isn’t it so that there are devices, objects, that repetitively reveal themselves— during the course of your journey, your work? These are marks that come back to you, your journeys down the lane of the way that you have...
BRAND SENTIENCE | SURVEILLANCE AND THE BRAND WATCH
YOU AND YOUR STUDY OF THE BRAND THAT YOU OWN—WHAT IS YOUR WATCH? EVERY GOOD BRAND AGENT IS ON THE SURVEY FOR ACTION, ANALYSIS, COMMUNITY AND RELATIONSHIPS, TRACTION AND SALES, INTELLIGENCE AND KPIs. S E N T I N E L F O R T H E B R A N D Looking out: over the...
THE SCENTUALITY OF SYNÆSTHESIA | SEEING SCENT, SMELLING COLOR AND TASTING SOUND
When I see things, invariably I smell them. When I touch things, I smell them. It’s a curiosity trait—it’s one thing to see things, it’s another to touch them, still another to taste them, or hear them. It might be said that the obvious jump is anatomical sensory...
Typography And Placemaking | The Signage Of The Prisoner
When I was studying in London (1976) I met the designer of this font, Albertus, created by Berthold Wolpe.
BRAND JOURNEY MAKING: BRANDQUEST® WITH JAMIE KERN | IT COSMETICS
It was in our NYC office, a half day session of exploration with Jamie Kern, a discussion of the principles, design direction and attitudinal strategies of a new brand, founded on a shoestring, IT Cosmetics. What was then, thrives now. Jamie at GIRVINYC In our...