A few of my favorite (creative) things this week and well worth adding to your summer reading/viewing list. Empathetic design. This 60-Minutes profile of David Kelley, founder of IDEO and good friend of Steve Jobs, is a master class on how thoughtful, intuitive design can change the world. The Rite stuff. An appreciation of Walt…
Apple may have abandoned skeuomorphism with its iOS 7 (provoking a whole new controversy) but recent advertising and product development show the brand hasn’t lost its human touch. Released just this past week is a new print and TV campaign highlighting the company’s commitment to “design that enhances each life it touches.” It’s emotional, elegant,…
NSA, meet Damien Hirst. Damien, meet the NSA. You have much in common–a lot of data (dots) that add up to (perhaps) not much. One could argue they are both making much ado about nothing (yet one is profiting handsomely) and need to “regain the trust of the marketplace.” Clearly, a case of life imitating art.…
The Whitney Museum will be moving from its upper Madison Avenue (NYC) location to new digs downtown in 2015 and is marking the occasion with a new logo and identity. Designed to be more “responsive” (in communications and across platforms) than the original wordmark created by Pentagram, it is now on exhibit in advertising, packaging,…
In the new novel, “A Thousand Pardons,” the protagonist (stay-at-home mom turned professional crisis communicator) urges her clients to apologize honestly and sincerely for their misdeeds. No dancing around the subject, no past passive exonerative (“mistakes were made”), nothing too clever by half. Just a humble “I’m sorry. I did a bad thing. I will…