CAN YOU BE BLANK?
INTENTIONALLY BLANK? I found this in a hospital room. And I was thinking, "what is it for, really?" This room is intentionally supposed to be blank? Empty? An interesting discovery for a patient. Welcome? You're here, but you're not supposed to be. Blank. White space....
Horst Rechelbacher | A journey, a passage
2011, photograph by ©Steve Henke The Agent, An Axiom of Ayurvedic Principles, the Founder of Aveda, Intelligent Nutrients, Moves On. Remarkable people have a weaver-like mingling of a tapestried storytelling that frames out the threading of their lives -- they make...
WHAT IS YOUR TYPE?
WHAT THAT COMES DOWN TO, IS WHAT TYPE, ARE YOU? When I interview people, prospective employees, client and team interviews, I watch for handwriting. How does a person sign their name, how do they take notes, how do they hold a pen? Everything tells a story. In...
TAKES ALL KINDS
THE DEMOGRAPHY OF EVERYONE The Journey to Knowing Who You're Talking To As a designer, you need to design to craft and tell stories, create messages and visualizations that connect with people. To link to people's emotional points of gravity -- that magnetism lies in...
THE CONCEPT OF TRUST
I want to trust you, but should I? Do you trust me? Do I trust myself, my instincts -- what's true? Pondering trust and inspiration, I was thinking about Rei Kawakubo, foundress of Comme des Garçons, a hands-on woman entrepreneur, designer and innovator that I've...
THE ARCHITECTURE OF PERFUME — THE PORTAL FROM ONE PLACE TO AN OTHER
THE BRAND AND FRAGRANCE STORYTELLING STRATEGIES OF COMME DES GARÇONS "There is no plan." Rei Kawakubo As a blogger on design, and on perfume, and architecture, I'm always looking for threads, entanglements and weaving between lines of thinking action in the place...
When It’s Time to Say Goodbye
The Stroke of The Hand, Like Touch, Says It Real. Best From The heart. Touch me. Touch you. Hello & Good bye from me. When it's time to say goodbye, it is, truly -- "parting is such sweet sorrow." And, the expression of sorrow isn't "sorry" nor "sore." Sorrow, the...
Future Forth | You’re going, how are you getting there?
Designing strategies for Movement, People Journeying Into, and Coming From, a Place I was walking a corridor, and it was like a dream -- blood red, bathed in blood, a journeying into brilliant light. Except that it wasn't a dream, but rather a walk in an old section...
The Perfume that is You
You smell. Where you go, where you've been, what you remember is what holds you. You have a scent, whether you're wearing a perfume or not. And you've smelled things, places you've been, things you've remembered. What were they? The point might be, in the boost to the...
NO GO
Don't go here. Walking an old and beautiful island road, I found this turn off, along with a metal cut-out signing warning: "No." Why not? What "no" out there?" Of course, I went out there. I can recall a time when I saw a Charles Addams cartoon, as a child, that was,...