Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Charlie Rose wins Vincent Scully prize

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This link also includes a link to his best architectural interviews.

Caltech Researchers Develop a Flexible Ceramic

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An ingredient in flexible architecture ....stay tuned for further developments.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Beware Faux Finishes

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Just dug this out of my drafts folder... always relevant. I loved this response to a lovely Wall Street Journal article about a faux fini...

WOW!

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It has exactly been two year since I posted to this blog, admittedly my interests were elsewhere and life got in the way. Most importantly t...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

How quickly do things change?

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At a rapid pace, it seems. An interesting animated info-graphic shows the rapid rise and fall of CD sales over the last 30 years. No m...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

The Soul of Retail

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I've just returned from my annual trek to ICFF, (International Contemporary Furniture Fair) my overriding thought about it all is: despi...
Friday, January 21, 2011

Revolution or Evolution in the New Year?

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Trends often change so subtly, as to be barely perceptible. Much has changed in the global culture in the past year, and as I sit inside dur...

Fractals in the design world

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Surface detail from subBlue on Vimeo . Another followup to the "Geometric" trend in my 2010 report - the explosion of fractals ...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

Emotional Marketing

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Call it marketing, call it manipulation . . . as we learn more about the human brain - we also learn more about how we think and make decisi...

Has design overplayed its Hand?

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As a design professional, I have always believed inherently that beauty and thereby good design enhance our quality of life. A recent New Yo...

New Inspiration/Mosaics

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The ancient domesticity of the Mediterranean basin has long fascinated me, what we learn about the thousands of year old living arrangements...

Aahh! Nostalgia

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In 2010, as we moved into a new decade last year, I entitled my trend report "Memory Matters." The early reports this year are th...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Do not walk on this carpet!

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We make carpets designs graphic "carpets" with the most ordinary everyday things like pasta and plastic forks. Take a look at the...
Thursday, November 4, 2010

Throwing away years of beautiful excess - the "green" alternative

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As I contemplate upgrading my computer, my office is still bulging at the seams, years after so much information has been placed online. How...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

The consumer and his brain

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Last year it was orange juice cartons, this year it was The Gap's new logo that laid a total goose egg with both the graphic arts commun...
Friday, October 1, 2010

Color WOW

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Canon Pixma: Bringing colour to life from Dentsu London on Vimeo . If either color or photography fascinate you as much as they do me and ...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

Still too many choices!

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I t is the nature of design centers to offer lots and lots of choices, but I have to ask myself, at what point does it become too much? Rece...

Interesting pespective on Materials

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Vegans aside, who knew that the designer Christien Meindertsma has created such an interesting take on materials. Her perspective on the ...

Market insights are now critical

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Academic jargon aside, pay close attention to the McDonald's story in the Wharton marketing professor George Day's conversation abou...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Conversation or noise?

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I just attended a informative presentation on "social media" at the Boston Design Center given by the VP of Marketing for Kravet. ...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Visualizing Color

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This month's Wilsonart blog reminded me of my favorite places in New York - the Kremer Pigment store. They have a delightful collection...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

Finding a bargain feels as good as sex

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I am sure this headline gets readers, but who doesn't love a good bargain?

The Return of Wisdom and Common Sense

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I don't know exactly when wisdom, in academic lingo, and common sense, from my perspective, left our culture. However, I can pinpoint ex...
Sunday, September 12, 2010

Fashion, Finishes and Art

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Fashion Week has moved uptown and is now held at Lincoln Center instead of in a temporary tent. At the first Fashion Week to be held there, ...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

Lessons from Trader Joe's continued . . .

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For me, it was love at first sight - that first time that I walked into a Trader Joe's store. I truly couldn't understand the gentle...