Global Shop
What about personality, to brand, to trend, to direction? Every time I connect with a brand, there's a person involved. Funny, isn't that? I believe sometimes, that we forget about that. We think about the business proposition; there's a personality, sure. And there's...
Rippling | Stories in context to brand
There are brands; and there are brands behind brands. The rippling of connections between brands and supporting brand relationships vibrate inwards and outwardly. When there's a story connected to a brand; it's part of the legacy, there are connections that make that...
Samantha Daniels and the Human Brand
Tom Peters made some sequence of offerings wrapped around the space of human branding. That is the idea that you are a brand, worth telling your story, and that people will be paying attention to you. And surely there are plenty of people worth paying attention to....
Tom Ford | Design & Designing
NY Magazine Article, "Tom Ford After Sex" ---- While I didn't get an appointment, for a tour and fitting...I did have the chance to check out the retail design of Tom Ford's new story. Store, I mean. The skin of the store is quiet, dignified and restrained. Quiet...
Write On
There's one thing to a pen, drawing, there's another to a pen, writing. And being a longer term practioner who plays in both spaces -- the drawing and the writing, it will be interesting to see, yet again, if this concept takes hold. Yes, me -- Newton. Two of them....
Notes on Apple
Randall Stross... Greetings! Nice, your work: Sunday | NYTimes | Bright ideas! | Digital Domain 5.27.07 (Randall Stross) I found your observations on Apple Store, as carefully and clinically precise in their analyses as they could hope to be, I suppose, to be another...
Roxy Paine | NYC
Madison Park | NYC. 5.22.07 11.23pm People have asked me about the occasional address that I close mails with -- TSG | madison park | NYC. What's that, they say? Are you in a park? Well, sometimes yes. Girvin | NYC is located on 26th + Broadway, just off Madison Park....
Surfaces
Okay, so I've got to open the Microsoft launch notations with a link to: P O P U L A R Mechanics. Might be interesting to explore the concept of Surfaces | Project Milan, Microsoft's recent pronouncement. And you can find good content there. But what I wonder about,...
Tom Ford – part I
I've been tracking Tom Ford's work closely, from before our YSL days. I loved that work, working with you...and it was great learning more about the man, the history ( all of them ) and the characters that emerged in the brand. Not sure where that's gone, but...YSL...
Peruvian calligraphy
It's interesting, studying the web, and learning something of the reach of those without, within. There are, in surveying the records, people reaching to me all over the world. And sometimes, I see them studying us, our world -- the work that we do, and it's...