GOOGLE’S ALPHABET AND THE SCRIPT OF THE EARTH
WE DRAW A LETTER AND PRESUME THAT THERE IS A GRASPED MEANING, BY ALL. ISN’T IT POSSIBLE THAT EVERY MARK HAS MEANING? IT’S SIMPLY GRASPING THAT LEGIBILITY; IT’S THAT YOU [MUST] KNOW HOW TO READ [THEM]. OR THAT YOU NEED TO LEARN THIS NEW LANGUAGE AND THE FORMS THAT...
THE HOLISM OF SENSATION AND SPECTACLE | LIZ MULLER | CHIEF DESIGN OFFICER: STARBUCKS
SYNAESTHETIC EXPERIENTIALITY AND DESIGN LEADERSHIP As a journeyer of decades of design, all over the world, and in partnering with many adepts in that journey, it’s interesting to study different models of design leadership. There are collaborators and team-builders,...
PSYCHOACTIVE PLANTS, HALLUCINOGENS, TOXINS AND THE WADE DAVIS MOVIE-MAKING LEGACY
The Design of the Serpent and the Rainbow
THE WORD, THE MARK, THE QUEST FOR MEANING IN BEING
THERE IS A WORD AND A STRING OF LETTERFORMS; AND IN THE CONSTRUCT OF THE TWO, THERE IS MEANING IN THEIR BEING. CONTEXT AND WHAT THAT MEANS FOR A DESIGNER, A BRAND AND AN EXPERIENCER. [Above] Tim Girvin shooting words, textures, materials | photo Dawn A. Clark IN THE...
BREATHING TIME: STUDIES IN THE TITLING DESIGN OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.
Studies in the Titling Design of “Mary Queen of Scots”
THE FOCUS OF THE STROKE, SYMBOLS AND WORDS WELL DRAWN: MEDITATIONS ON CALLIGRAPHY
THE VERY NATURE OF THE WORD CALLIGRAPHY PRESUMES BEAUTY, THE QUEST FOR A LETTER FOR WELL AND BEAUTIFULLY DRAWN—AND TO SOME, DISTINCT FROM LETTERING, WHICH IS MORE OF A BUILT FORM OF LETTER-MAKING. Make by hand, drawing letterforms is a foundational prelude to type...
DESIGNING THE IMPOSSIBLE: MISSIONS IN GRAPHIC IDENTITY
Look to the past to build the future of the logo.
GIRVIN TECHNOLOGY BRANDING
THE QUEST FOR SOUL IN TECH MARKETING. [above image by @dacarc] In the legacy of brand — strategy, design and the tactical implications of reach, expansion and expressionism, the exploration into brand and its etymology implies the quest for fire. Brand, as a seed...
SILENT ACTS: 3. COULD YOU BE INTENTIONALLY BLANK?
YES, THAT’S YOU: NOTHING, ERASED, WASHED-CLEAN, THE PROVERBIAL BLANK SLATE? I found this twice, two objects that were mysteriously titled: “intentionally blank.” First time in a hospital room. Then another in another in a different place. “Intentionally blank.” What...
SILENT ACTS: 2. CAN YOU DO NOTHING? MEDITATIONS ON SOLITUDE AND QUIET
THE JOURNEY OF SPACING-IN AND THE ART OF DOING NOTHINGNESS. I was in a meditation chamber and we were sitting, quiet—as I settled in, quieting down—I watched others getting to the nothingness of mindlessness. Nothing there, quiet in here. And in that, it does come...