The Wisdom of The Ancients
While I was walking in the woods, the ancient layers told me their stories. [Image above by Justin Kern, altered by Dawn Clark, AIA, LEED AP] When I was young, in NY, my parents took me to the New York City Museum of Natural History [AMNS.] This was a whim reaching to...
A love of the Skull | Alexander McQueen
The End that is the Beginning | Brands & Death It might be said that the idea of associating the creative essence of the late Alexander McQueen with a skull is a mistake -- a slide off the backside of a brilliant man, who passed in the swirl of an astonishingly...
Designing new worlds | The Launch of Trion + SyFy’s Defiance
Building brand identity around story, environment and experience The design of a gaming world is a multiple year commitment, and a spectacular investment -- especially when the notion of a gaming world coincides with the conception. Some never make it, fueling out...
The Dark Portal of Design | Star Trek Two
Star Trek Two Working in the motion picture business, as a designer for theatrical advertising, the potential of working comes from making introductions, reaching out: connecting. It's always a journey, the explorations, the examinations, the labyrinths of time,...
Journey to the Light
Exploring the heart and soul of brand, story and personality There's a journey in getting to the heart of brand, and in a manner, it will be about finding the light that lies at the end of that voyage, or in the center of that conclave. I'm always looking for Light....
Brand sage
Seeking the Wisdom of The Sage, the Leader of the Brand In any journey, you'll go further if you go to the heart, the center, the fire of the leadership chamber -- it is about the path to knowledge. When you work on, or inside, a brand, when you take a journey to...
GOING FOR THE HEART, THE HEAT OF BRAND
Exploring brand culture, in a circumspect study I was talking to a client about getting into a place -- "when you're in, what do you see, what do you sense?" Being one that works in retail and restaurants, as an experience designer, I tend to sense everything...
The Symbolism of Archery
And the implications to brand, strategy and the target It's been noted that, with the avid consumption and viewership of everything Jennifer Lawrence, the "Hunger Games" and Jeremy Renner's rendering of "The Avengers" Hawkeye as a bow-wielding defender of the good,...
The Power of Touch in Reimagining the book:"Ink on Paper – design & concepts for new publications"
The Book as Sensate Storyteller It's been said that the book is the most perfectly designed object for "reading." That is according to earlier conversations with book and type design legend, Bill Hill, typographic theorist and book / tablet reading and UX scholar at...
Menus, the calling card of brand storytelling: restaurants
Menu design as a core element of legend-making in crafting food & beverage experiences A friend sent these along to me, and I'm not sure where they came from, what collection. Apologetic for not defining their provenance. But it reminded me of another missive,...