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The Layering of Patterning

Retail Brand Language: The Layering of Patterning. The design language of brand patterning. Brand patterning, psychic patterning -- the hidden and the obvious messaging of place-making and experience, designed. I was watching some people in a place, and watching how...

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Wellness, windowed

Windows as the Eyes of the Soul of Wellness The tradition of windows in the merchandising of ideas. At the street level, a building's windows are, in a manner, the eyes and soul of the bridge between the heart of the building, its occupants and the brand that might be...

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Meditations on Manners

When I was in Bhutan, high in the misted Himalayan mountains, I'd spied a remote monastery and spoke to my guide, Tsewang Nidup about "getting up there." We did get up there, like nearly every other lonely vista we aspired to summit -- centuries-old crag-balanced...

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Instant imagery

The immediate illustration of place and being. Finding the moment, in momentum Image above, an instant | Jakarta, Indonesia | Girvin I contemplate the instantaneous -- and the drawing out of the drawn, the painted or scratched statement of the moment, closely seen,...

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Meetings With Remarkable Men

Richard Meier and Massimo Vignelli [above] video | Nowness When I was working in NYC, decades back, I'd linked to Richard Meier on the subject of typography and signing. The selected font of study, designed by another classical alphabet scholar and typographic...

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Don’t we try to make the world a better place?

Doing goodness. Surely, some do. Sometimes the celebration of goodness would seem the higher calling, in the flurry of the unrelenting challenges we face. Video, here. From our friends at PSFK: In the words of Fernando Semenzato, SVP of Content for FOX International...

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