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 --...
REAL(NESS)
THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE TRUE Real people, real brands, enterprises that are true. Have you been with someone, a person, a brand, that's untrue -- to you? You had an impression, then you went to "meet" them, work with them, buy from them -- and they're we're untrue, to...
TURNING SPACE, MAKING PLACE
There's a distinction between the sensation of raw space, and the making of place - - a place to be, that can be, held. The nature of holding is about warmth, holding -- being held. Etymologically, it might be offered that "relating" is really about "holding" and...
Camper’s New Soho shop | Shigeru Ban
Camper [soho] new shop | Brand storytelling -- each store, and story, slightly different: a patterned retelling. Manifesting style in the legacy of invention, the Shigeru Ban addition. photograph above: Halley Tsai Camper's international retail style is one of store...
Atelier Mecanic, Romania
Atelier Mecanic Crank, or Drink up? At Atelier Mechanic, there's not much about this concept that's actually "mechanical" -- it's more to artful and highly personalized assembly -- a gallery of the personal experience. Soul makes a difference. Things accumulate,...
Brand story, the layering of content
Layering content, the palimpsest of meaning A calligraphic broadside, a gift, for speakers and presenting participants at The Evergreen State College 40th Anniversary. When I was a student, library adviser, workshop instructor and finally, faculty member [graduate...
I have a story to tell.
So -- do I have to listen? The sentiments on the power of storytelling continue to emerge. Point is, who cares to listen? These days, dozens of friends, colleagues and client send along snippets to the power of the story, well told. The image above comes from our...