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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...
TED / Three +…
Okay, so I've been busy, and trying to fill out the remaining days has taken time. Days, right? Daze, right? Like a week or so, really. And there's more, too. More learnings -- and of course, so much more learning that it took me a couple of daze to actually compile...
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
Where there's smoke, there's fire. I've always been a lover of fire. And smoke. It's a family thing. My father is a pyrophiliac and he got me started in loving things that are on fire. Not in any sense of destruction, per se; it's more about the beauty of the flame....
She
There was all ways the myth of the beginning in her, that was un-named and known as force of making, Matrix and in that mystery, found, burdened, measured then lost in the fool that was man. The scent of the beginning drifted away, yet remains [ p e r f u m e ] in the...
Kajeet
What story is there when the tale is hardware and the phone set for kids? Couple that thinking with a slightly schizophrenic jumble and you've got brand: Kajeet. Jeet is the personality, safety -- the reference, yet a gameworthy fun is woven in. Here's more -- from...
The Prize
There's an unusual component to TED, driven by Chris Anderson's visioning, and Sapling Foundation's fueling of the ultimate goal of the event, and TEDs bigger planetary role. And what do I really know about it, being a TED virgin? Not much, but what I learned. I can,...
Two TED
There's a great deal coming out of TED -- the encounters, the explorations, the connections, the learnings. Incredible really. I don't think I've ever been to anything quite like it. But the mix is increasingly world focused, on the big world problems and what...