How to Create Poetry in Space What differentiates great design from good design? What gives some designers that particular edge that takes a space from functional, interesting, and lovely to remarkable, amazing, and awe-inspiring? My theory is that they have a mastery of language – the language of design – in which they use a [...]
Looking for Alternatives in the Petroleum Age. A Call to action. Like most people, I have been keeping track of the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. I have tried to make sense of the public relations efforts of BP, the company responsible for the spill. I have noticed the variety of opinions [...]
This month we celebrate young people. We recognize their voices as well as their ability to accomplish things we may feel are beyond their age. Take, for example, the extraordinary, 210-day, 23,000-nautical-mile, around-the-world, solo sailing journey of sixteen-year-old Australian Jessica Watson. Skeptics didn’t believe that Jessica would complete the voyage, and they accused her parents [...]
