Simplicity…so simple yet so hard to achieve
Simplicity. It’s powerful. It’s hiding in plain sight. And it’s very, very hard to achieve. Why so powerful? Because people are overloaded. They ache for experiences…
Second Grommet Sculpture
Here’s our more frou-frou Grommet sculpture. It’s the backdrop to the second batch of videos we shot. You’d have no idea how much effort went into…
Art in the office; it’s not just eye candy–it can help you reach real business goals, albeit unconventionally
Seeing a real commitment to using art in a workspace always lifts my soul. Paintings and sculptures uniquely take the work environment beyond the mundane. Even…
Working to build that next great e-commerce company
Rob Go of Spark Capital recently posted his ideas about the next big opportunities in e-commerce. He’s thoughtful and I think he’s on the right track. …
Vinyl Sentiments
My oldest boy soon returns to college as an RA in his dorm. He has to have his hall doors decorated with thematic name tags before…
Font Conference – CollegeHumor video
The humor in this video is centered on imagining how fonts would behave if they were people. You have to really enjoy typography to fully appreciate…
Like Mother, Like Son
My oldest boy, Dane, is studying design at Carnegie Mellon. You’d think having a industrial designer mother would have made that a natural. But when he…
Something I never heard from a CEO before, and other miscellany from SEED
37 Signals hosted the third annual SEED Conference last Friday in Chicago: it lived up to its commitment of being all about design, entrepreneurship and inspiration.…
IDEO at Nantucket
I’m just back from the Nantucket Conference. It included two sessions on design thinking, and it was fun to trade notes about the design “biz” with…
Trust the rope
Industrial designers can’t help but evaluate any product’s ability to do its job. Sure we trust airplanes like anyone else, but we still manage to gnash…
Jules Pieri 