LOOK(ING) OUT
Studying the nature of surveillance | the lookout, the sentinel, the scout (and the brand). S E N T I N E L F O R T H E B R A N D Looking out: over the shifting world, there is what is flowing out -- the push; and what is flowing in -- the pull. The question might...
THE POWER OF THE FLOWER: SCENT, PERCEPTION AND PLACE
THE TOUCHPOINTS OF FRAGRANCED PLACE: MIND, MEMORY AND THE SENSATE AMALGAM In working with gardeners, I note that they are different people. There's something about them, that suggests the touch of plantlife -- that growing content and contact means something. Working...
POWERPOLE
L E A D E R S H I P M A G N E T I S M In the modeling of a group of people, there is invariably a "power pole." Working with people, I look for that energized place of energy. Who's there? In the clustering of people, there is the layering of the rings of connections,...
ABRACADABRA | Alphabet Amulets
I got a note from some friends at the Oxford English Dictionary. It was about this word, "abracadabra" -- and perhaps you've got the same one, since you might have friends there too. Earlier in my life, studying the history of the word, the real key is linking...
The Alphabet | A History of Girvin Calligraphy
Early hand drawn explorations of the letter IMAGE: GIRVIN | hand made cut star alphabets in 12 languages –––––– There's a rhythm to the alphabet, drawing it, the forms can flow from one character to another. The story of their evolvement is a legacy of thousands of...
Faking Apple | Retail Conceptions
Workers at a fake Apple store with an iPad tablet in Kunming, Yunnan province, on Friday. Wong Campion / Reuters The Soul of the Brand Material In the emerging wild east of China, the idea of counterfeiting continues as the savaging of anything and everything...
Fast Casual Food Experience Design: The Place of Technology and Touch How Designed Does It Need To Be?
The context of designing places that are human, places that are not. In the principles of fast casual food / beverage design, a mid-priced, faster service experience proposition, the notion of the holistic character of guest presence has to do with a layering of...
ORDER, HERE
Sometimes, in our attempts to process and organize, we forget the beauty of the chaotic milieu -- where things aren't really as nicely laid out as we might have imagined. Projects seem to drift off into a differing continuum -- there are challenges in getting our...
KNOTWORK
(Girvin) Himalayan mountain protective talisman THE TALISMANIC STRING Coming into the office in Seattle, on one wall there is a string of talismans; they're arranged -- as a threading, running from the front of the office, the opening door, to the entry point, the...
DUST
The scent of dust. The perfume of the journey. The spice of the road. I am sorting through a collection of delicate, sacred books. They come from many places, but like a bundled sanctum, they are all together -- near by each other, in the darkness of a room that...