SEEKING INSPIRATIONS | CREATIVE MENTORS: HAROLD BALAZS:
THE DEFINITIONS OF DESIGN SPIRIT: A CHILDHOOD, RECALLED
August 30, 2010
SEEKING INSPIRATIONS | CREATIVE MENTORS: HAROLD BALAZS
August 25, 2010
REMOTE WORK:
Seeking beauty, active focus, and contemplative strategy in remote locations: working someplace other than where you’re supposed to be.
August 23, 2010
Fire and Smoke as Design Elements | the conception of the ultimate transformation
August 20, 2010
THE SCENT OF BIRCH TAR
An exploration of trees, their saps, the resinous outcomes, the essences and their fragrances. And Birch bark — a visit to the Early Buddhist Manuscripts Research Project in the palaeographic laboratories at the University of Washington.
August 18, 2010
Duluth Pack | True Brands: Beautiful Authenticity | Truth in the telling series
Brand storytelling that goes back 130 years, and pitched as a marketing strategy for merchandising sales at Barney’s. Notes on selling old brands as something newly hip.
August 15, 2010
LOGO DESIGNERS OUT OF BUSINESS?
August 13, 2010
PHOTOGRAPHIC AGENDA: DRIVE-BY SHOOTING
August 11, 2010
Wi-Fi ubiquity: Starbucks + new digital content
Wi-Fi ubiquity: Starbucks + new digital content. What if Starbucks created its own content for Wi-Fi users? Who cares?
August 9, 2010
Steve Jobs | Steve Ballmer: Devices to be Proud: presentation and leadership
Brand, story, positioning and strategy, what’s working here?
I was struck by Steve Ballmer’s presentation of the Slate technology at the Microsoft WWDC and the profound difference in positioning that the two brands represent — and by two, you know which two I mean. There are, too, two human brands at the helm, and for one, it’s Mr. Ballmer’s Microsoft, and for the other, it’s Mr. Jobs’ Apple. As noted, we’ve written about some of these positionings — the human factor, the truth factor, the authenticity factor.
August 6, 2010
ALPHABETICA | THE STROKES OF THE ALPHABET
ALPHABETICA | THE STROKES OF THE ALPHABET
STROKES, FINISHES, GESTURES, DETAILS — ON THE SERIES OF THE RIGHTFUL MOVES.
