Nothing at Facebook is someone else’s problem
Telling the story by hand and meditation. I can recall designing and writing out a phrasing by Michelangelo Buonarroti, "By hand, which follows mind and meditation." It's actually a telling that follows a longer contemplation: "The best of artists never makes creation...
Rippling
The Waves of Brand Story from the Light When I walk into a place, I think about what I feel. When I watch a person -- in my room, my immediate space, I watch them wholly. When I look at, read a story, I try to sense it, that telling, before I do anything else. I...
The nest, the egg, the weaving of the Matrix
The Whorl of Making and Imagination Sometimes when I'm thinking about a challenge, working my way throughout a complex puzzle -- I draw my self into it, and out of it. Above, my little finger on an iPhone. Below, the dinner table and a team meeting, whirling: In a...
Studying the Eye and the Touch of Seeing
Studying the Eye, In sight and the Touch of Seeing The Rhythm of Insight, Seeing-In -- 1000 Eyes -- the brushstrokes of Storytelling, the Rippling of Imagination I was looking into the eyes of a dragonfly that I'd arranged on a mapping, a cartographic brush-drawing of...
THE RED THREAD OF IDEAS AND INTENTIONS
AND THE ATTENTION TO DETAIL, IN THE SPATTERING OF INSPIRATION. When I was in college, I taught workshops to help my payment of the tuition, along with support from my family. I used variously colored butcher paper to do that -- pulled, ripped out and sheared on a...
The Patterning of Space, Made to Place
The Storytelling of Place, in the Minds of the Experiencer I just told this story recently. I was working with a colleague, in Florida -- our client, her boss, was Michael Eisner. He had a dream about a Disney place that would be a kind of learning experience -- but...
The gesture of black, raven ink — drawing the spirit of birds
Hand-ground pigment, split timbers, scent and the explosive splatter of haboku. When I draw, my senses are open, the touch of the paper, the splintering of the wood, the sound -- the gasp, the clasp, the rasp of the stroke of the brush on the stock. We worked on the...
The flow of Flowers
Drawing People [in] with Flowers, the Flow of Story in the Craft of Rendering Ideas In my beginnings, I drew flowers -- and sold them as art pieces and gifts; then, at Christmas, I did groupings of flowers, silkscreened and signed in limited editions of thousands....
Tom Ford, the Creativity of Babyhood
How are Designers, Creative Minds, Changed by Babies? Having met Tom Ford, albeit in a short quasi-interview and completely unscheduled encounter at a WWD | BEAUTY + FASHION CEO SUMMIT; I'll admit that I was afraid [of him.] When I was working for YSL, I was told that...
You Are Beautiful
The Search for Beauty -- the Beauty of You, The Brand of You, and Others. In the quest for the truth of brands, the soul and heart of their storytelling -- invariably, appropriately, there are humans involved. People make brands -- mostly for other people, so the...