When an original idea loses all meaning, then it becomes fashion. – Steve Oklyn Not Vogue, for Fashion Art Daily Continue reading
Category Archives: Monday Musing
Stretching Limits
Great designers can stretch us towards the limits of our comfort & then create a new comfortable place where we didn’t expect to find one. – John Maeda, ‘Design is both the insanely radical and the passionately incremental‘ for GigaOM – 6/10/12 Continue reading
Learning To See… A Blessing And A Curse
Learning to design is, first of all, learning to see. Designers see more, and more precisely. This is a blessing and a curse — once we have learned to see design, both good and bad, we cannot un-see. The downside is that the more you learn to see, the more you lose your ‘common’ eye, … Continue reading
Fringes Of Reason
The most interesting experiences, insights & breakthroughs are often found at the intersection of disciplines and, sometimes, at the very fringes of reason. – David Pescovitz Continue reading
The Discovery
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight for a very long time, of the shore. – Andre Gide, ‘Les Faux-monnayeurs’ 1925 Continue reading
The Test
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln Continue reading
The Radical …
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. – Mark Twain, Notebook 1935 Continue reading
The Train Spotter…
Ok. So how did I come to be here; now; doing… this? Trend Forecasting. On an internship. In Amsterdam. At my age – this in reference to the internship bit (aren’t interns school-leavers?), not the Amsterdam bit – Amsterdam suits me just fine and I, suit it. It seems to embrace creativity, co-working/producing, highbrow thinking, … Continue reading
Curated Futures 