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....
Brand symbolism
When you look, you find. In working on a brand development project in eastern Washington, I was walking their vineyard to get, literally, the lay of the land. And, I'm looking for what lies beneath, what lies inside the brand story. And in any brand development, it's...
Marc Jacobs
------------------------- NOTES ON: Marc Jacobs The key to influence is the street. Marc's work is based on his ascent -- and that's telling. It tells the tales of his visioning, drawn from experience starting from the ground up. From his opening efforts at...
John Larson NBC Kiva Story
Hi and good morning. Starting off, after the absence of Labor...day. Welcome back! ---- Here's a story about a story. The thing that I believe in, personally, is that it's sometimes hard to imagine that small things really matter -- but they do. And in a way,...
Spirit light painting
I realized that the branding visualizations that Sprint's been doing with conductor-like expressions of people moving things, ideas, teams, etc., with light, was strangely reminiscent of something in my mind -- not sure what, but it's there. Something. And what I'd...