Sleep On It

I find going to bed & pulling imagination over my head often means waking up with a solution to a design problem. That state of limbo, the time between sleeping and waking, seems to allow ideas to somehow outflank the sentinels of common sense. That’s when they can float to the surface.   – Alan Fletcher Author […]

On Color

Earlier this week, I enjoyed a visit to the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC along the beautiful Museum Mile in Manhattan. This museum had been on my wishlist for far too many years, and it was everything I hoped for and more. The museum offers a splendid collection of contemporary and historical designed […]

Good Instincts

Good instincts tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.   – Michael Burke Trusting your gut feeling on design decisions is important, because this is what makes the delicate difference between something being a well-designed, well-crafted object and a work of art. This mystic je ne sais quoi quality that some works […]

Get Inspired

There is no creativity in a vacuum. The key to creative output is creative input. INSPIRATION is the essential raw material from which new ideas can manifest. But how do you replenish this divine imaginary well? Do you pray to the gods of inspiration? Do you just sit around staring at the blank page waiting patiently […]