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,...
THE WAKE OF PERFUME, SEX SILLAGE
THE PERFUME THAT FOLLOWS YOU. As you're walking the street, a hallway, a waft of scent flows by. Multiple "perfumes of place" drift -- if you're open, you're scenting them. As well, you're scenting -- the fragrance of you, the trailing scent of you -- it drifts behind...
Sweet Being
A Sense of Place, Design and Experience When I was studying with Reed College's rockstar+poet+calligrapher Lloyd Reynolds, I spent time with him at his home in Portland, talking, exploring and pouring over his enormous library. We'd write out broadsides, walk, talk,...
Storytelling Signing Design: Messaging that Doubles up
The Layers of Intention and Storytelling in the Context of Message and Community As students of environmental design and signing, we're endlessly studying typography and messaging, signing and fabrication -- and, in the end -- placement and meaning. What does the sign...
The Goodness of Truth
It would be better if it was true In the soul-searching of positioning and the right angle of brand, to story, cult and culture and truth in the telling, the woven fabric of brand experience and the personality of that narrative will be far better if the foundations...