In the film, A Beautiful Mind, the brilliant yet flawed professor John Nash has an epiphany that he publishes as “Governing Dynamics.” This theory alone has been my obsession for the past few years. Governing dynamics, in it’s blithe simplicity, stipulates that if all participants of a system are interested only in serving their own [...]

There was an inside joke in college that if you wanted to occupy a class with nonsense for a good hour all you had to do was raise the following question; What is the difference between art and design? Someone would pose a statement and then another would refute it. If you hit a lull [...]

Let us begin the week the proper way. With a bittersweet Japanese love story by Haruki Mirakami. The following piece is entitled On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Maybe it’ll drive you to take those opportunities that you once hesitated to [...]

It’s important to glance back to the past once in a while. Design being a pragmatic sport wasn’t always an easy endeavor. Before the invention of rapid prototypers, 3D modeling applications, and straight up magic machines industrial designers had to get down and dirty with their medium. Follow the breadcrumbs and you’ll see how limitations [...]

We live in a time like no other. I know I know, every generation before ours has uttered those very same words. Certainly with good cause, reason, and conviction. Though as I stand on my soap box I shall not waver one bit. We’re at the peak looking down at the trials and tribulations that [...]

Over the weekend I scoured the internet in search of an appropriate printer to provide printing services for my client’s business cards. What struck me as surprising was the lack of printers with decent brand presentation - websites. Every site that I found looked like it was produced in the 90s (ex. 1 2 3) [...]

I’m not the smartest person in the room. I’m probably not the cleverest either or best looking. It turns out that not being superior in all characteristics is okay. Malcolm Gladwell writes in his latest piece of thought piquing literature, Outliers, that one doesn’t need to be the most exquisite to excel - just merely [...]

It was while talking to my lady friend yesterday that I gave some thought to the superstition that riddles the design process. The creative gods as they may be sometimes bless us with the eureka solution right away, other times it can take several hours to days to have a break through. With such a [...]

Everything in life is about dating. I don’t mean that in the existential, “everything is everything” sort of way. I mean literally you can apply the learnings of courtship to anything you do. Allow me to reorient your thinking on design. Design is like dancing with a stranger.
Your eyes meet from across the room. [...]

I met this wonderful lady last night at the Trident where I was pretending to get work done. I looked across the room and our eyes met. I knew it was a now or never sort of moment so I snatched up my tea and sauntered over. To make a long story short we had [...]

From time to time I do freelance design consulting for companies on the up and up. My services may include branding design work, interaction design, and even creative product development. I’ve been fortunate to have a keen sense for navigating the minefield that is courting potential clients. In this article I’d like to address what [...]