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...
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...
CASTING
WORKING IN IRON, AND HAMMERING IT, OR POURING IT MOLTEN INTO THE CRUCIBLE, ONE LIQUID BECOMES HARD AND FAST -- LASTING FOREVER. BUT THERE IS MORE. I'm thinking about the cast in two ways -- one, the molding itself, and by the form, what is poured into it. But what is...
RADIATION
RADIATION Z O N E D What of radiant ideas? What of ideas so powerful they spread round the world? What of innovations that embody the radiation of human imagination and commitment -- a passion drive to emerge to new platforms of contribution? We've been working in a...