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Luxury, Value & Money: The Emerging Challenges in the State of Luxury Products
What is holding? What is held? What is memory? What is valued? I gave a talk this past week to the Luxury Marketing Council in NYC, and this overview, in recollection, was about truth. Actually, it was about the weaving of truth in product portrayal. And it reaches...
The Human Brand
While it might seem profoundly obvious, the brand is inherently human -- it's about people, connecting to other people. People create brands -- the notion of a brand DNA is nothing but an explication of the concept of the precisely personal character of the human...
Enthrallment
I was thinking about the concept of enthrallment. It was something that was mentioned to me during an encounter with Diane Ackerman, the author and poet, who described herself, her life, in that manner. Life's spinning, a series of enthrallments. And I like that idea....
The 15 Questions: The Natural History of Tim Girvin
1. How did you get your start? My start? Raw curiosity for one. That's where it all started, that drove, and drives everything that I am made of. I am one that is easily enchanted by content. I can be ignited in a moment, if the right spark is there. A love of the...
Apple As Luxury Brand
Susan DeChillo | The New York Times I first met Steve Jobs in the 80s. Actually, it was at Stanford. He was there, speaking. And I was there, listening. Afterwards, I went up to introduce myself. And we went from there. I worked on the Macintosh launch and technology...
The most beautiful in the world
Design, in beauty -- is where the application is all the more wondrous. Happiest, holidays -- to you: tsg | nyc+seattle - Times Square, New York Before the ball drops in Times Square, the Big Apple turns on its holiday charm with the Christmas tree in Rockefeller...
what way, found, what path, known?
I've been drawing -- painting -- things like this for some time. And, well, they're flat. There are two dimensions. The black, the white. And the space, between. And then, too, there are translations of the energetic content of the brushstroke and the drawing, that...
Interactivity
in·ter·ac·tive /ˌɪntərˈæktɪv/ –adjective 1. acting one upon or with the other. 2. of or pertaining to a two-way system of electronic communications, as by means of television or computer: interactive communications between families using two-way cable television. 3....
The line: Adam Tihany | Restaurant designer
Photography by Brent Murray I met Adam in a showing of his new table collections with the restauranteur, Thomas Keller -- this was the launch of a line for Christofle. What I find compelling about the spirit of Adam, what he does, is the breadth of his design...
Cut Rock | Rock Cut: soul patterning
http://www.kenrock.com/ I'd met Ken Rock, sitting on the sidewalk. That's what he does, part of the time. Sit on the side walk and hammer away. Looking from further down the block, I'd wondered what that person was doing. It was nightfall. And it was cold. Bond...