Finding a way | The strategies of way-finding,messaging and signage design[from 2000 years ago]
Designing storytelling, in brand experience and place-journey-making. Earlier in my career, I was studying the concept of signage design in the setting of Imperial Roman culture. From the 500 -- 1500 years, BCE, to roughly 400 ACE the idea of cutting important...
The Patterning of Retail, Retold: Istanbul
A Place has a Pattern, a Brand has a Chromosomal Character, That is Evinced in Visual Language; and so too, Language is a Patterning. I'm looking for patterns; I'm always looking for the patterning of things that I know on the surface, and the patterns and...
The Art of Design
Research, Storytelling, Brand -- Science, Strategy and Artfulness In working on a string of projects, to brand, research and background, audience review, positioning strategy. And, in some instances, the idea is a kind of an engineered review -- science-focused....
THE SOUND OF SILENCE, THE QUIETUDE OF THE MOMENT
THE DELICACY OF SOUND, VOICING THE STORY, AN UNKNOWN TELLING -- PURE SOUND. The most powerful point of sensuality, will be about love, and the intimacy of connection -- the closer you are to feeling, the more intimate the power of that sharing. I was thinking about...
The Insight of Experience
Understanding Experiencer Journey Working with Nabisco I studied the sequencing of packaging arrangements on shelf, of baked goods. What we looked at what a kind of rolling circle around the aisle walker, looking at how a person traverses a place that represents a...
A Perfume of Everything
Building a Scent That's Made of Every Scent. When I was young, even back then, I was into fragrance; I explored the idea of taking various fragrances and mixing them together -- to get what I wanted. What came of that experience, generally speaking, was a fat,...
The Sound of the Brush
The Stroke of the Idea, in Sound, Found. When I was in Seoul, looking at, and working on Korean retail design, I stopped and watched a street calligrapher, who was writing phrases on newspaper. In the midst of the noise and flurry of the streetscape, I stood and...
The Layering of the Message
The Light of Brand, the Voice and the Tiering of Message Messaging and stair-stepping access in community Given the entirely human nature of brand, the enterprise of humanity, the idea of thinking about brand as a poetic expression, isn't entirely without relevance....
The Vibe of Place
The Spirits in An Environment I was walking in a place and I realized, for a moment, that I was alone. But there was something there, studying the sensation of environment. It had to do with the holism of the sensations -- light, warmth, breeze, the former presence of...
Digging In, the Soul of Story, Brand:
Visualizing the layering of identity: Iron Man I was moving through, collecting and organizing some earlier Girvin studies for Paramount Studios, and hanging out in the theatre, looking at titling treatments, graphic identities for films and one sheet theatrical...