Martin Lindstrom
Martin Lindstrom 3.4.08 Human branding, the brand: human. If ever there was a person that had created a brand presence around his very embodiment, it would surely have to be Martin Lindstrom. Still, given the experience -- and the expertise -- of his global wandering...
Saul Bass | The hand work(s)
Saul Bass Saul Bass with Alfred Hitchcock on the set of "Psycho". I gave a talk for the Arizona Advertising and Marketing Association some time back, and during that presentation -- it was actually a conference -- Saul Bass was one of the co-presenters in the forum....
TED | 2008 | Aspen (3)
what's extra? pretty much everything. some thing extra about today any : day > being in it. LIFE IS ABOUT MAKING THINGS, CREATING THINGS, BEING IN CREATIVE SPACE -- MAKING THINGS THAT CONNECT ME TO YOU. .... LIVING EVIL yesterday, I was thinking about...
TED | 2008 | Aspen (2) – What Is Life?
What is life? smiley groupings, right? ---- vivacity, sprightliness, vigor, verve, activity, energy. I go backwards. When I think about life -- going back to something that was before, that reaches to the now -- and the me that is living now. Life = Body LIFE: Origin:...
Ted | 2008 | Aspen (1) – The Big Questions
Big questions. What's asked, what's answered? .... What I'm thinking about: I've found myself always contemplating -- why, who, were, what? And I've been writing about that for years. What | ever? For | ever? .... Here are some thoughts, in opening: ..... Louise...
Charles Eames
I was thinking about things floating, ideas that are on one level, then another. And that idea of the interconnection of the idea on the surface, and the idea beneath. "The details are not details. They make the product." So says, Charles Eames. So you might be...
Rethinking Interactive Design: Troika Art & Design Studio
There are known levels of interactivity -- is it us, to solely reflect something rightly inter|active? Or is it how something we create that responds to environmental stimuli? We move by something...and a series of triggers offers shifting visualizations,...
Design & the Elastic Mind | Museum of Modern Art
Organized by Paola Antonelli, the show opens with an act of high-tech graffiti. A can of spray paint is suspended from a system of cables and pulleys in front of a wall. A small motor guided by computer software winds and unwinds the cables, moving the spray can...
HEMA | The Netherlands | Retelling online retail
We've talked about, or I've written about, that idea of retail experience in the context of feeling what the environment might be like. What if there was the chance to tell that story online in a more compelling, livelier modeling? Rather than the usual stuff – stuff...
Free! Wired Magazine and Chris Anderson, the Long Tail continued…
Margaret Swart, a friend from long back, asked for me to do something that one might think of as odd. Unusual. That is, to create a hand-lettered cover for one of the top rated technology magazines there is: Wired. A magazine that uses a hand drawn script for the...