So — do I have to listen?
The sentiments on the power of storytelling continue to emerge.
Point is, who cares to listen?
These days, dozens of friends, colleagues and client send along snippets to the power of the story, well told.
The image above comes from our friends at Voda Studios. We’d partnered with them on the digital alignment, management of brand assets & photographic content for our
union bay website strategy.
Daphne, the human brand, is she a Mother, too?
Answer would be yes.
Happy Mother’s Day, Daphne.
Image above, below — of Daphne.
from DarkBlues.
Stanley Kubrick + Douglas Trumbull
> Monoliths on Mars
Seeing the imagery of a so-called “monolith” [alá 2001, A Space Odyssey from NASA on Space.com reminded me of a string of experiences — working in Hollywood.
During the development of a theatrical advertising campaign — motion picture branding — the best path is to meet with the film crew, the director, the production designer. That is something to be savored in any creative relationship, the sync to the “live” driving force. Meeting, listening and working live is far more powerful and committed to building extraordinary outcomes — than the call, the conferenced assembly, online.
Uniqlo brand glow
BIG Japan, made elegantly small:
UNIQLO CALENDAR:
NYC uniqlo | holiday | 2011
I embrace attitude.
Frustro, Martzi Hegedüs and Escher
The puzzlement of design, translated as an impossibility of form in space.
A friend of mine, type and design hunter, blogger and musician, Stuart Balcomb [Los Angeles] pointed this reference out — the font.
Travel, brand, retail, explorations: The 9th International Retail Congress Seminarium.
The focused walking-study, explorations of design and human-place, place-making, retail storytelling, cultural impressions and insight in presence.
Just got back, last week.
A new office in one of our favorite cities:
the love of place | San Francisco, the Bay Area, Silicon Valley:
GIRVIN’s new presence in California
PUSHING IMAGINATIVE LIMITS: RIDLEY SCOTT: PROMOTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR PROMETHEUS.
A COUPLE OF WEEKS BACK, WE WROTE A LITTLE OF OUR HISTORY WITH THE SCOTT BROTHERS — RIDLEY AND TONY. THAT HISTORY IS QUIET, MODEST AND LADEN WITH LEARNING. ISN’T IT SO, THAT THE MOST POWERFUL AND UNFORGETTABLE RELATIONSHIPS MIGHT ACCOUNT FOR MERE SECONDS OF CONTACT?
