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...
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...