THE LONG ROAD
While you're looking out, traveling the distant vista -- a long road, the living running -- the journey shall continue. And who said it would be easy? Craft, in the making of anything, building the outbound relationships to people, in the truth of it, will be fraught with failure. Tries and trials, and circumstances wrestle what was once a straight path into something of a twisted labyrinth of knotted wanders. Stick to it, the trials, the trying. Thinking about the story of living, it can be...
THE COILS OF DANGER, THE CURLS OF FEAR
sean freeman Last night, I was talking to some people about surfing with sharks, at night. Dark passage, swirling masses, in the luminous sea -- or seeing the sharks run the breaking waves, as I'm heading to shore, as I'm flapping like a fish with silvered bracelets -- flickering -- on each wrist, pretending I'm the coursing center of a shoal of fish on the run. That what the sharks think, I'm told -- as I reach the shore. Shipwreck, Kaua'i, Hawai'i. Then we started talking about snakes -- and...
THE LONG WALK | THE PROCESSION | GALLERY IV
THE STATE OF WOWNESS* IF I'M THINKING ABOUT THE WAY, THE WALKING ROUTE -- IT'S LIKE A LONG STRIDE TO THE SOMETHING THAT LIES AT THE END. THERE'S A RHYTHM, A SEQUENCING OF PILLARS THAT MARK THE TIME. STEP BY STEP. LOOKING UP, IT'S STEEP, THE RISE TO THE LIGHT THAT COULD BE THE START TO A NEW ROAD, ANOTHER PATH. OR IT COULD BE THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER MEANDER IN THE JOURNEYING THAT HAS NO END, YET ANOTHER BEGINNING. START AGAIN, TO SEE WHERE YOU ARE. AND IN THAT SEEING, THERE'S A CHANCE TO SEE...
LOOK UP, LOOK OUT | PRINCIPLES OF ABOVENESS
LOOK UP, LOOK OUT | PRINCIPLES OF ABOVENESS | GALLERY III THE STATE OF WOWNESS* IN THE NATURE OF SEEING, THERE ARE DIRECTIONS - THE VECTORING OF PLACE AND SITE, SIGHT SEEN AND UNSEEN. BUT IT DOES COME DOWN TO THE LOOKING - AND THE LISTENING IN THE LOOK. AS ONE STUDIES ANYTHING, THERE IS THE REACH BACK TO THE SENSE OF SENSING IN THAT SIGHT, THE INSIGHT IN THE BEAUTY OF WHAT HAS BEEN MADE. THE PROFUNDITY OF SOME PLACES -- IS THAT THERE IS A BRIDGE TO THE SIGHS OF SIZE -- MAGNITUDE. THE POETRY OF...
THE SEARCH FOR LIGHT | GALLERY II
THE STATE OF WOWNESS In the exploration of design, organizing information, considering presentations and context, emotional relatedness, there are two elements that I look for in the conjunction of creative intelligence and communications to community. Content and beauty. I'm rarely interested in the mere documentation, but more to what I'm feeling in the exploration of what can be found beneath, above, out there -- the emerging and the next horizon. Because around any corner, next moment,...
THE MYSTERY OF PLACE | GALLERY I
THE STATE OF WOWNESS This is the first in a series of impressions -- a gathering of images exploring interpretations of place, way-finding, presence and historical context; none of these images are raw -- rather, each one has been tuned to emotional impressionism to what I've experienced, in traveling Spain. I have always been a mystery seeker -- I'd far rather strive past the beaten path to see something in a different way; I shun the crowded sunlight and look for the shadowed entrance. I...
VOLATILITY
Everything changes; everything is on fire. Nothing is the same as it was; everything is the same as it shall be. In the mist of experience, it's all changing -- still standards flow, and patterning emerges. While everything is in flux, everything goes as it has from the past -- yet, now, the speed of the wind is accelerating. It is flitting, fleeting, faster. In the work that we all do -- there are things that we are doing now that our parents, and their parents did. An idea -- made to light,...
iPad: DRAFTING CREATIVITY | BRAND CARTOGRAPHY
(iPhoneZenBrush) THE CARTOGRAPHY OF DESIGN THINKING | Part two Doodles, scribbles, mapping and documentation: Brandquesting®, brand navigation and creative brand business applications for the iPad People fire brands -- brands are created by people for people -- and engaging people in the process of understanding brands, building them, expanding their strategies is a foundation for how we work. That principle isn't uncommon -- it's sensible; but it's in the how that can make a difference....
THE MAPPING OF ENERGY, MIND AND MOTION: NAVIGATING BRAND AND LEADERSHIP CHARRETTES
THE CARTOGRAPHY OF DESIGN THINKING | Part one Building the strategies for brand engagement thinking, creative intelligence workshops and tactical layouts for innovation sessions. Working on a project for the planning of a market design program for an emerging brand, the issue will relate to a conceptual positioning, a marketing plan, and the assessment of a structured relationship to consumers, a naming architecture and the creation of a visual identity and collateral / online messaging and...
THE LINK
Stories, myths, legends, tales -- the link to humanity If there's a story about a person, which might be a legacy, a family, a product -- a brand -- who's telling it, and who cares? There are chains, coils, rings that sync and bridge the connections of one to the many. But in the meditations on the work, the practice of creating things that connect people, we're constantly thinking about how those alchemical attachments and those stamped amalgams work. As a designer, in making things that link...