The Shadow World
Go You To The Shadow World? It's never about what you see in clarity alone, but what lies behind the Light. Certainty is never assured in anything. As a designer, when I'm working on a project, or a photo shoot, a story, a piece of writing, I watch for the Light, yet...
The ring
The metaphor of the Rod, the Ring, the Line, the Circle. I think symbolically: when I try to find the answer to a problem, I draw it out. And for me, it's that: "drawing it out." Like a string, a line, a movement. A dance. The idea of a stroke having a lively presence...
The Tarot of Your Journey
Designing Divination -- the Craft of your Path Built by Hand and Shown in the Throw The pick of the draw -- and the drawing out, the woven journey, the thread of path, and the cartography of the psyche. What you see is what you get; what you get is what you see....
Magical Books, Calligraphy as an Agency of Power
The Talismanic Alphabet, Mystical Calligraphy. It's been said that the roots of the alphabet aren't a scientific and archaeologically sequenced discovery, but rather a revelation, something from the magic of meaning, the scribing of the psychic underlayment to mind....
Designing for Cowboys
The Craft of the Hand, the Story, the Image Over time, legends come into play. And if you work the craft, follow your inspirations, you can get to where you want to -- the legends, the myths, the stories. But any quest won't be without travails, challenges, thorny...
The Turn of the Gesture
The Beauty of the Mindless Walking a construction site, I was studying the siting notes and install corrections. What I note, in watching the drawings, writings and notations of others is that in that sense of mindlessness. The doodle, the swirl, the twist, the check...
BIG thinking | A visit, NYC
Exploring Creative Place | Design, Teams, Innovation BIG ARCHITECTURE|DESIGN | NYC Traveling the world, as a designer, if one is so motivated, studying working environments, culture and vibe should be part of the practice of seeing into how design thinking happens....
The Threading of Ideas
The Metaphor of the String I was thinking about the symbolism of weaving, having met with some weavers. Ephesus | Weavers Collective I watched them set the foundational warp, and then shuttling, back and forth, the patterning of the weft. It's delicate work. And like...
The Alchemy of Perfume | Mandy Aftel
A Journey into the Craft and Mystery of Making Perfume. Some years back I'd read Mandy Aftel's book, I was struck then by her link to the presumptions of aligning alchemy and the making of perfume. Theoretically, it works -- but, in her application, the spirit of her...
Looking at Skins
Studying the Face of People and the Buildings that they Make In the past, we've talked about the modeling of a brand relationships -- the relating [the carrying, the holding and the retelling] of that content, product or story in a manner that it can be acted on, and...