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...
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...