THE MESS OF THE ALPHABET
And the Mystery as to Their Drawn Quarters Go back to a hidden Girvin site, long retired, here, to find the story of many in the drawing of the alphabet. In thinking about the mind as a room -- the alphabet is right there, in the entwinement of story and legend -- for...
HOTLINE
FINDING THE HOT LINE, TO STORY AND SOUL I was walking the street, and came upon the asphalt and tar, street laying truck -- with a sign that said: "POTHOLE HOTLINE." If you find a pothole -- call them, and they'll fix it. I was more interested in the hotline. I was...
BOSSOLOGICAL
EXPLORING BROADCAST IDENTITY DESIGN IN THE CONTEXT OF POLITICS, KELSEY GRAMMER AND STARZ NEWEST SERIES: BOSS EARLIER IN THE YEAR (2011) OUR TEAM was asked to build identity treatments for "Boss." This was the first time we'd connected with Starz, for television work,...
The Stroke of the Stem | Alphabetic Eccentricity
The Legacy of Type Studies | Reaching Back "It's been said that the first stroke of any alphabet is the vertical, drawn with the finger -- from heaven, to earth. In the mysteries of the origin of writing, it is the first stroke that cracks the light in the beginning...
VOLATILITY
Everything changes; everything is on fire. Nothing is the same as it was; everything is the same as it shall be. In the mist of experience, it's all changing -- still standards flow, and patterning emerges. While everything is in flux, everything goes as it has from...
BOLD FINDINGS: TREASURE & BOND | NYC
EXPLORING RETAIL DESIGN / PLACEMAKING EXPERIMENTS IN STORE STRATEGY AND CHARITABLE CAUSES Notations with the iPad | Journal Making + Site Explorations TRAVELING We're always looking. With Girvin's connection to Nordstrom, we went to explore more -- the West Broadway,...
Brand angularity: Maison des Maîtres Chocolatiers Belges
Seeking alignments in the spirit of brand design, experience development and product quality. Brands, angling in (how customers incidentally connect with the reflective brand; and the brand and its reflexive indices of insights in human experience and storytelling...
iPad: DRAFTING CREATIVITY | BRAND CARTOGRAPHY
(iPhoneZenBrush) THE CARTOGRAPHY OF DESIGN THINKING | Part two Doodles, scribbles, mapping and documentation: Brandquesting®, brand navigation and creative brand business applications for the iPad People fire brands -- brands are created by people for people -- and...
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...