Sex and retail
I've been studying sex. And retail. Since I was a teenager. Not necessarily in that order. Nor presumably together. But I've been studying them. My first exposures to the concept was as a boy scout traveling in Europe, as an early teenager. What I'd discovered was...
Human Branding: Exploring emotional content in brand storytelling development
Seeds of Compassion | The Kirlin Foundation It's interesting to note, sometimes, how entrepreneurs look at the premise of their enterprise as being, fundamentally, operational and transactional. There are literally thousands of businesses that operate otherwise, but I...
Luxury Branding and Patterning
Perhaps you know the classic rendition of "A Pattern Language"? The premise of this fine theoretical explication by Christopher Alexander is that there are a series of movements, patterns, that relate to how space, volume and presence can be reflected in human...
Understanding international presentations
Examples of what your international meetings involve: Global encounters that I've been involved in usually relate to complex presentations involving design -- and different kinds of design: identity, packaging, brand strategy, retail design and environmental graphics....
Luly Yang
Over time, if you can imagine it, I've known women that pursued the Nellie Cashman award kind of like a sweepstakes, sort of like a takeover strategy. "How can I acquire that?". Really, not kidding. But what I'd offer is the sincerest form of congratulations - nay,...
to applaud Al Gore, Nobel Peace Laureate
"Thank you, bless you -- Al Gore; what greater giving, what better gift to the planet, than your new dawning of insights, intelligence and calm authority in advising the world -- finally -- to what future there might be...and what future we might create anew?"...
Notes to a student
I believe that the story is the way that people connect with each other. I tell you a story about me, you learn something -- there's a possible magnetic link between us; we've made some opening range of a connection. And from there...what, where might it go? I'm...
Johnson & Johnson Design Center
I spent time with the team at Johnson & Johnson -- first, Skilling, out past Princeton; then at their original spaces on 26th, over by the river, in Chelsea, then in their new design labs. They've got the best section of the building, south facing, relatively high...
Seibu | Jakarta
Luxury Retail design and brand patterning, Jakarta Seibu, Java, Indonesia I had the opportunity to partner yet again with Callison Architecture, Dawn Clark, AIA LEED and Andy Thaemert, Doug Shaw and team on the development of an expansion of the environmental design...
Inspiration: the finding, the depth, the found
What did influence me? Practice for one, looking for another. I look, I find. I research, I uncover. I dig, I excavate. When I was in college, I did this one section, this one grouping of studies of the history of the letterform. What is that, anyway? Palaeography....