NBBJ
Yesterday, I went to the open house of the architectural design group NBBJ. The point of the practice, rather uniquely -- I might offer, is about collaboration and the celebration of ideas. Many practices are of course about doing the fundamental work of defining...
Refractions and reflections | James Carpenter
There's an inherently classical discipline to the luminous experiments and exploration that James Carpenter's work seems to embody. He's an architect -- of light, and the incipient interplay of space. It's all about the nature of light, the refraction of it -- the...
Paul Bertolli
Working with a master. Sometime, ranging a year or more back, I'd worked with Paul Bertolli. And a friend -- Stephen Darland. Stephen was the one that introduced me; and he and Paul needed help in defining, creating a brand that evolved around the concept of salumi....
Robert Polet | CEO | Gucci
I've been walking around the edge of this luxury brand, and its leadership -- CEO | Robert Polet for the last several years. I'd reached here to Gucci headquarters in Paris and London, exploring the dimensions of the brand. I worked with the leadership in NYC, Yves...
Lev Leviev
To be involved with Lev Leviev is, at least for many that are attached to him, a challenge -- a mystery. I've worked with two friends, several clients, who've mentioned that they've only seen him a couple of times. And that he is modest, direct and enthusiastic in his...
Notes on Jai-Alai | Danis Beach Jai-Alai Club
The Blur | Notes on Jai Alai. Jai-Alai, you would've liked the scene; it was trippy. Very old Miami. Gambling and card playing in the adjoining spaces. With a special boozing and smoking lounge - hyper funky... Notes on jai-alai. It's, for one, several hundred years...
The symbolism of the circle
I'd written a couple of weeks back about the enso, the zenga brush-drawn circles of the Zen masters, as a statement of satori and the enlightened condition. There's more, to the notion of the symbology of the circle, as a gesture of containment and perfection. As a...
After All These Years
I still love to draw these: Finials -- the finishing stroke on a letterform. Here's one: f Even yesterday. One, long, calligraphic finial -- standing there, alone: b ---- finial (FIN-ee-ehl, FI-nee-) noun 1. An ornamental object on top of an architectural structure or...
It came?
Whatever! Like, do not bend what?? ? Whatever! ---- Tim Girvin
d.Log
I believe in this, to the action of staying creative: The real presumption is that you are creative in the first place. Sometimes people who run creative enterprises are, in fact, great at running organizations, but less so to the challenges of creative activations....