Quietude
The Complications of Content I was talking to a friend about cabling, chargers and hardware. Often, when I'm traveling, I'm roving. Moving from place to place. Others, happily desk bound, working in situ, they're sending me texts: "please call the office." Meanwhile,...
The Search for Treasure
In the Quest for Light, Being Beauty and the Bearing of Story I recall a time in the mountains of the Himalaya, a remote monastery, I met a tertön. Treasure finder. An 8-year-old-Light of a Being. His role, in his layering of being -- treasure discoverer. In Tibetan...
Conviction
The stride to a convincing victory Sometimes, the work is laden with inspiration. You meet someone, work with someone, their brand, their story, and the power of the passion, the energy, is a viral contagion; it's like "I wanna be around that!" Get infected. It comes...
We All Go That Way
Designing Signing Message Strategies: the Beginning, and the Ending, of Storytelling. Every story has a beginning, and an ending -- each of us has a story, that has one beginning, and another start, and another initiation -- and perhaps an ending that we all might...
The Mechanical Room
Designing for, and in, The Soul of Place For some, it might be the light of a room; for another, it might be the scent, for another -- it's the touch. And still another, it's the vibe, as if there is a Spirit in the room. People contribute to the vibrational...
The Art of Squash
Branding and The Court of Boom: Design + Squash Racquet Play More than 20 years back, I began to train for the game of squash. I was looking for a complicated, high-fitness game, that was as much about physical stamina and agility as it was about craft -- the mind,...
The Scent of a Woman, Imagined
The Imagination of Designing Fragrance Perfume is a storytelling -- it's a layering of tellings that translate to the alchemy of ingredients. Woods, resins, tinctures of flowers, aromatic leaves, natural ingredients, all combine to build a story that allows...
Alex Calderwood Dies at 47
Death comes even to the best of us. Very sorry to see this loss. Three days back, London. I recall the first time that I'd booked some clients at the [Hotel #1] ACE, Seattle. And I fretted about what they'd think [they were older clients, linked to an American power...
Flow
Optimizing Experience. In the management of any project, when there is the feeling of all-open creativity, everything's working, all systems are go, communications are excellent. How does that happen? • First off -- the link to the client side. Clear inquiry, clean...
The doorway
The Opening of the Next Portal I went through the door from the darkened interior to the light. There is some historical significance to the door -- I think of every door step as a metaphorical movement. The door is a symbol, like a window. It's a movement from one...