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I have a superpower. It’s not fancy like flying or invisibility. I can predict the winner of the Bachelor/Bachelorette, well, my pick makes it at least as a second place winner. I’ve guessed correct winners before the first rose ceremony, even right after they come out of the limo… For those of you who don’t […]
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
We have a can-do attitude. That anything is possible. Everyone seems to share this belief but not everyone acts on it. Only outlaws and cowboys. Everyone inbetween never takes a risk. Where are the outlaw designers? Where are the cowboy designers?
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
The luxury market and comedians have a lot in common. A previous pieces talked about comedians having a sense of hyper-observance of the world, they have a great grasp on reality; The Normal. The luxury owners are similar in that they also understand The Normal. They have to know normal so that they can know […]
We, designers, get caught up in attempting to create something prolific. … but we help create moments like these. Isn’t that beautiful enough?
When the credits start rolling, you don’t immediately go back to the beginning of the DVD and say “That was great! Let’s watch it again!” At minimum you might wait another five months before you see this movie again, regardless of goodness. Whereas if you hear a great song, you can listen to it start-to-finish, […]
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
I spoke with Steven Johnson today, who recently spoke at TED. He promotes the intermingling of ideas that occupy different spaces, not on any sort of spectrum, to create good ideas. These ideas also don’t have to happen at a cultural level or even a physical space like a coffeeshop, which he describes in his […]
I interviewed Lynval Golding of the Specials when I ran a ska/punk magazine and I asked him about how he felt about the ‘scene’. Was dressing up in two-tone suits, just like everyone else, just a sign of conformity? Wasn’t dressing-down, way-down, in mohawk, leather and chains, like everyone else in the scene, going against […]
Robert Guyser on a linked in forum got me thinking about ISMs like modernism and minimialism… ISMs are about absolutes, a belief in a set of principles to guide how you see the world. As an example in the design world maybe there’s something like: consultancyism. A belief that there are set of formulaic processes […]
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Kenya Hara, the art director of Muji, spoke about their philosophy of “emptiness”. The concept of “emptiness” is a philosophy that is prevalent in designs throughout Japan. He gave a similar lecture at Google headquarters that you can watch here. In a recent blog post on Core77, I commented on a misconception of the futon’s […]
