The ring of bone
For maybe some 25 years I've been collecting zenga. These are the paintings of Zen masters. They are of the haboku style, which is the most captivating, to my aesthetic, which is called "broken ink". It's about saying something in nothing. It's about an empty handed...
Nokiablue
Seen this? I've been shooting retail and designspace for a while -- and I go in... The Nokia people didn't like me in there, too much. And I go out. And then I send this to you. I do like the sheer presence of the blue, here -- especially against the black of YSL next...
ob viam
3.25.06 Cairn of lavastone | Mt. Merapi | Java obviate OB-vee-ayt, transitive verb: To prevent by interception; to anticipate and dispose of or make unnecessary. Obviate derives from Latin obviare, "to meet or encounter," from ob viam, "placed or coming in the way"...
Cindy Gallop
I found this word, and thought of you, Cindy. Nice spending some time with you, exploring your ideas and home, there on 23rd, NYC, looking out to the sunny side of the street, from a dramatically darkening interior. A silky lingerie interior that, in its inherent...
40 Bond Street | Of glass skins
Hi and good morning. I went to Gabellini Sheppard to talk to them about some things. And they're right on the foot of Bond, in NYC. I walked over to 40 Bond, to see about Ian Schrager's new venture with HerzogDeMeuron. And what's happening, there? Or is it the other...
Breathe
I went to this screening the other night, and it was the (hi)story of a young man, and later, accomplished sound designer, who grew up in the Bronx. Or maybe Brooklyn. Queens? Anyway, his childhood was, in some words, a kind of incessant trial by fire. It was like...
Boxing
NYTimes | Executive Pursuits | Personal business | 3.24.2007 Heavy bag (and you know who you are), meet this fist | Harry Hurt III What I like about this is that I know that | this space very well. And in a way, it seems like I'm always working in that (semi) martial...
The symbolism of weaving
Earlier in my career, as a designer, in exploring the concept of weaving and the context of history, architecture, the letterform in palaeography, I found intriguing links. And I was always compelled to explore the symbolic connection in things. How does, for example,...
TED | d.log>4
The last day was that last tango with the minds of the wildly ranging talent that is TED. More adventures, more risk, more exposures. And it's all about that risk. Exploding the trust of what you are, what you can be. That might be a thread -- breaking the edge of...
Brand evolutions
Sometimes there's a sense that we look at a brand one way, and there's a potential for it to be tipped another way; and that can be a good thing. We need to be ready for that, mind full of tipping spaces that will transcend or evolve expression to a market. But I...