The Watch
The Focus of Watch Fullness, Studying the Terrain Around You. I was hiking and, to every horizon line, path, water-lined and sanded beach and I studied the wind, the insects' movement, the course of birds, the turning light and colour of green-cast tree-light. And --...
The Evil that Men Shall Do: The Dragon Tattoo Brand Design Strategy
Logos, fonts, custom alphabets and design strategies: from one sheet to main titles WORKING AS A DESIGNER IN THE THEATRICAL BRANDING Design / Strategy market, the "instinctually" founded process is pebbled with uncertainty and the foibles of a largely intuitive and...
I was talking to a girl. As I listened — she told me a story, it was about her life.
I was talking to a girl. As I listened -- she told me a story, it was about her life. And I told an other -- a story, about her story, to another. And then another, that came from the one story, became another story. I was talking to a girl. As I listened -- she told...
Trending scent strategies | the track to knowledge
Trending scent strategies | the track to knowledgethe vocabulary of fragrances. Do you really know what you smell? I was in the subway, METRONYC with a colleague from GIRVIN | NYC -- and, coming down to the running tracks, he says -- "whoa, that smell -- that's ripe!"...
The Spool: Papiota Café: Cut, sew, drink — a new mix.
Papiota, "spool" -- Bucuresti, Romania Cut & sew. And drink & eat. Bobbins and bottles: What of creating environments that combine working experiences that conjoin site realism, entertainment and food? Papiota: the sewing café/shop Bucharest, Romania: If you...
The mystery of design
The mystery of design | drafting design as talismans, amulets, portals and gatekeepers An old sign in Paris Working with Pierre Dinand, [and, noted herewith, that collaboration, here] in Paris -- in the making of a shopfront signing, lasercut from solid brass,...
You Could Be No Where
These Days, People Work Anywhere; and Brands, Their Stories, Can Live Anywhere. But they can't be nowhere. Everything needs a place. The nature of the seamless world, presumes an osmotic fluency -- content, storytelling, wonderment, spectacle and experience -- it...
THE ILLUSTRATION OF THINKING
The LINE OF THOUGHT -- THE THINKING THREAD and the illustration of idea -- the crossing, ruled chalkline, oftentimes, to care of messaging, is in the deep story of text. A drawing is illustrative, it's the shining of an idea. Lustrous. But text is a different webbing...
WHO ARE YOU, ANYWAY?
A KEY START, TO ANY DEFINITION OF SELF, BRAND, ENTERPRISE, DIRECTION. The Quest for brand stance and conditioning. In my office, at the corner of 2nd Avenue and Stewart, Seattle -- on the wall, a sign poses the simplistically profound question: "Who are you, anyway?"...
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN | Archetypes in storytelling, repetitive patterning in the mythic dimension The question and the quest for the lineage of story patterning. (in-theatre screen, street and subway shots / girvin) There is a story, in a story, in a story --...