Paper is patient! Even though Paper may appear without blemish or crease or without smudge or fingerprint, its only capacity is to live in servitude to the pen and the lucid or confused mind that guides the hand. It endures without anger or upset, while carrying all kinds of messages that vacillate between fact and […]
Reflections + Follies
What’s in a Title?
Anecdote 1 My father was a well established psychiatrist and general medical practitioner. Living in very small towns, on asylum campuses, people would inquire about his profession. His frequent answer was: “I am a psychopath” to which most often he received very enthusiastic responses, with a nod, a slap on the shoulder and a cheerful […]
MIT: Casey, Coburn, Cooper, Matill
Not Veni, Vedi, Vici? Rather . . . in truth and honesty: I came, I saw, I did not conquer . . . I just appropriated . . . and now . . . it’s all mine! If one would tell American designers that few among them are true originators, many of them would […]
Design Research
My ambitions were never to become a designer or artist in pursuit of importance, status or notoriety. My interests were always bound to an insatiable appetite for discovery and looking for collaboration in interpreting the discovered phenomena. “Ask a provocative question, and without hesitation I stand ready to explore it to find an answer”, that […]