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...
Silent Acts 1. WISDOM OF SOLITUDE AND BLANKNESS | ARE YOU [T]HERE?
IN THE CRUSH OF THE CROWD, YOU CAN BE ALONE. IN THE MIDST OF THE ALONE, YOU CAN BE ALL ONE. It’s an interesting balance, the idea of the alone. And the all-one. You’re by yourself. And you’re with your self, in the throb of the mob. In terms of the spelling, is alone...
PATTERN COMPUTER | THE QUEST FOR THE RECOGNITION OF PATTERNING IN DATA INSIGHTS
PATTERN COMPUTER LAUNCHED IN SAN FRANCISCO, CA. [image: Pattern Computer] What if there was a unique way to surveil vast rivers of data and see rippling strings of insights in a wholly new manner? It should be said that the notion of seeking trends and patterning is...
DESIGNING SYNAESTHESIA
THE HYPERREALITY OF SYNAESTHETIC DESIGN THINKING [images from Clodagh] It’s been suggested by many that designing holistically is really the tasking of design towards a sextet of responsive and sensational layers for beings and their experiences in wandering places...
THE SYMBOLISM OF THE TREE
I AM WALKING THE FOREST, EXPLORING THE DEEPER PLACE OF ARBOREALITY; THESE TREE TAPESTRIES ARE LONG-MADE, OLDER GROVES, THE ONES THAT HAVE DARKER PLACES ADMINISTERED BY THE OLDER AND BIGGER TREES. You might ask, what is the symbolism of the tree in the context of what...
DESIGN AS A PORTAL | THE SYMBOLISM OF MAGICAL INTENT
THE DESIGN OF TALISMANS, AMULETS AND THE PORTALS OF PERCEPTION What if there was an ancient theory about the nature of marking, that the making of marks had a powerful transformative character — a mark is a perceptual portal? One stroke, an idea is born, an energy...