Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• Web Concepts: "Disciplined Creativity"

  4 Jul, 2011

  Tile-based homepage sketches borrowing BMW DesignWorks’ “disciplined creativity”—hover reveals type and deep links to graphic and industrial PDF portfolios.

• Designing the Future

  3 Jul, 2011

  Allan Chochinov in Metropolis reframes designers as negotiators of living, shifting problems—not solvers of static briefs.

• Questions.

  1 May, 2011

  Questions years of public writing against Turkle’s acting-out vs working-through—wondering when online introspection turns narcissistic performance and whether the norm now steals depth from offline confidants.

• Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto

  29 Apr, 2011

  Trip note—booking Frankfurt’s Cocoon Club to catch Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto live, where minimal electronics and acoustic piano lock into uncanny rhythmic unity.

• Snapshot.

  26 Apr, 2011

  Michael Michalko in Thinkertoys insists sustained inner pictures steer behavior—defeat imagery begets defeat, vivid winning rehearses success.

• What makes ambient electronica "work?"

  22 Apr, 2011

  Uses Mr.Cloudy ambient as case study—like disciplined modern art, “random” electronica still needs predictable texture for comfort and intentional layering for forward motion, not noise for its own sake.