THE MAPPING OF ENERGY, MIND AND MOTION: NAVIGATING BRAND AND LEADERSHIP CHARRETTES
THE CARTOGRAPHY OF DESIGN THINKING | Part one Building the strategies for brand engagement thinking, creative intelligence workshops and tactical layouts for innovation sessions. Working on a project for the planning of a market design program for an emerging brand,...
THE LINK
Stories, myths, legends, tales -- the link to humanity If there's a story about a person, which might be a legacy, a family, a product -- a brand -- who's telling it, and who cares? There are chains, coils, rings that sync and bridge the connections of one to the...
Metaphorical thinking | The Allegory of Amazon — The River, The Fire of Kindle, The Knowledge Cloud
the first of two observations | brand, metaphor, retail design NASA Designing a strategy of remarkable visualization: the conscious design, creative intelligence and the mystery of dreams Sometime back, Dawn Clark AIA, LEED AP and I'd considered the idea of building...
Meanings and signing. Signing, Meaning. Signs that Mean. By Meaning, the Signing
Meanings and signing. A Signing -- Meaning. Signs that Mean. By Meaning, the Signing. Signage as the wayfinding of furniture. –––– A friend sent me a string of images -- no reference to who, where, what, from. I apologize for not having the complete credits, but I'll...
What’s OK? Keep At It.
Being a teacher, there's the line in the sand -- the pass: it's okay; the fail: it's not. It is the yes, the no -- it's alright; it's not. Being a strategist, a designer, a writer, plying the work of creative intelligence -- the yes, the no, is always on the line. (A)...
ENERGIZE
Energy, focus, attention, connection -- what is the energy that's set, on the context of driving forward; uncovering the new? That is personal. That's brand. That is human; that's enterprise. "energy is eternal delight" -- it is the captivation of attention and...
MEDITATIONS ON PLACE | NYC: SEPTEMBER, 2001
2001 | Girvin photo journal, September: NYC MEDITATIONS ON PLACE AND THE PROFUNDITY OF SENSE | NYC: SEPTEMBER, 2001 ––––––––––––– The sight of scene unknowing and the scented perfume of dissolution It was a couple of weeks after 9.11.2001 that I, along with a Girvin...
You Smell Marvelous
What is the nature of the perfected marvel, in scent? Really -- you smell marvelous? I got a note from Barneys New York. It was really about Byredo -- I'd made some notes about them earlier. Y O U S M E L L M A R V E L ? Ben Gorham's drawn up the scent sequencing...
Ma | Drawing nothingness
The concept of the interval: the use of space in design I think about what is presence. And I consider, what is absence? What is here -- easily seen; and what is next? What is the interval? What converts moment to momentum? One wind driven day, I was painting with...
Mercy, Merci: Catchable Resonance | Merchandising Enthusiasm
WORKING IN PARIS, I'VE BEEN STRUCK BY THE CHARISMA OF PARISIAN RETAIL DESIGN, STORY, PASSION. THERE IS A SENSE OF LIVELY EXPERIENCE IN EXPERIMENT. EXPERIMENTAL EXPERIENCE -- how can you build a retail concept that might be simply built in a place, and working in, and...