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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...
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...