Openness and Closedness

If one prefers not to copy or plagiarize someone’s else’s concepts or work, still, for the emerged frames of perceptions, which make attempts to freeze the understanding, conclusion or position, one is obliged to  learn how to translate the wonders of today into positive realities for tomorrow.  About how easy it was for a young […]

Is “Meta” Better than Reality?

Can Life be Better without Reality?An “off the top” Response Unfortunately, I will always have to start at the beginning: Design has its intellectual roots in science and art and the daily human encounter with nature (and its physical/social environment/ecology). Otherwise, Design is an empty vessel. It has no specific hold on knowledge, because it […]

Kenneth Hiebert

It is my belief that Kenn Hiebert was the true founder of the American design school for Swiss Design in the US, even if he would fight me tooth and nail against this description. But it is my contention, that he was a messenger of a distinct way of evolving visual languages and solutions not […]

Ivan Massar

Real activists live their responsibilities. They don’t talk. They do. I met many important persons at MIT, but none were as significant as Ivan Massar, a Black Star photographer, who collaborated on many of the MIT projects, not just with me, but also with Jackie Casey and Ralph Coburn. From 1945 on, I grew up […]