SPIRIT PLACE
A PLACE OF MEDITATION; AND A MEDITATION ON PLACE: ST. IGNATIUS | SEATTLE UNIVERSITY An urban ark: a place of transport, safety and preservation of tradition and recollection. I'VE TRAVELED the world, exploring spiritual sites (and sights) from the Jokhang temple...
The Scent of the Prisoner
The Concept of the Fragrance -- and the Prison. What's Left in the End of Solitude? Listening to prisoners led Beaux to create perhaps the greatest perfume ever. I listen. I was talking to a prisoner -- this, a casual aside -- a man who'd been there -- in prison. What...
Synaesthesiae | creating brand experiences with multiple mixes of sensate modality
When I think about an experience, it's always a mix of complex impressions. I absorb. I like to sit and watch -- people, interacting with place and content. Sameness is less memorable. In the quest to create perfected brand conditioning, sometimes that disciplined...
The Adventures of Tintin | Logo Development
Exploring the legacy of a typographic design, embedded in the minds of millions. The above image, from Tintin, comes from the current site / launch of Spielberg and Jackson's pre-launch strategy of the storytelling of Tintin. Working with Nancy Goliger, former EVP...
InfoGraphical | the acceleration of content and search: redirecting in-formation to speedy visualizations
Pathfinder, the centerpoint of knowledge: Labyrinth do Outeiro do Cribo, Galicia "Sometime, looking for something, somewhere -- someday -- somebody might be found." If you're hungry, how do you understand the nature of food (information) and find the right path to...
Brand Touch | Sensuality
Sensations in Experience (Design) In working through a series of materials for a new retail concept, it was interesting to see the preponderance of materials that lusted after the slickest vocabulary of finish. Easy to clean. But, to the nature of soul in (brand)...
Brandfire: You
Seeking the fiery passion of inspiration: Tom Peters, August 31, 1997 I met Tom Peters, just moments after his (as usual) carefully integrated marketing of "the brand called you" positioning. As ever, he knows how to get the work / word / world out there quickly and...
THE LOGO FOR THE MOVIE THOR
Palaeography, design, historical context and the imagination Theatrical identity design We didn't work on the movie Thor. In about twenty years of working for Paramount Studios and Warner Brothers, in particular, we've worked on literally hundreds of identity design...
THE AGE OF BEAUTY | WABI SABI
THE EXAMINATION OF SENSE: BRAND SOUL, VISUALIZATIONS, INSPIRATIONS There are characters in Japanese aesthetics that most people know -- to the concept of objects that are beautifully aged, the character implicit in use, authentic decay, honored “wearing out,” rustic...
THE CHIAROSCURO, THE PALIMPSEST, THE SHADOW | STORY ON STORY ON STORY.
Girvin | Rodarte The story on the story in the story -- human | brand layering: passion, fire, color, sensation, context and meaning. There is the seen surface; and there is what lies beneath -- in shadow, use, care, overlay and redrawing. Palimpsest Chiaroscuro...