Design+Dialogue

Please join me as I host the Seattle AIA Job Seekers meeting this Friday from 9:00 to 11:00 AM.  I will be leading a discussion on resumes, portfolios, interviewing, networking and the “strategic job market”. The Seattle AIA office is located at 1911 1st Ave in Seattle and the cost [...]

I know!  It has been a (long) while since my last post.  Work is getting busy, a good thing, but I have missed sharing a bit of myself online. So back to it.  And to refresh the blog I thought I would share something fun. I do have a beard [...]

Definition: The Jedi Council was a group of twelve wise and powerful Jedi Masters elected to guide the Jedi Order. I admit it.  I love Star Wars.  Well, at least the first three movies.  These movies had a strange and powerful influence over the boy I was in the late [...]

Last week I attended an interesting event hosted by the Seattle chapter of The Retail Design Institute.  The event was about emerging design trends in retail.  Alison Embry Medina, Executive Editor of DDI Magazine, lead the discussion that was held at the beautiful NBBJ headquarters here in Seattle. The presentation [...]

It’s sad really.  For the past year or so my heart has fallen for things that will never be developed, never know the touch of sunlight, the cool of rain.  Yes,  I am in love with Binary Code. My newest love is the Ferrari 612 GTO Concept.  Sasha Selipanov’s concept [...]

One of my favorite areas of the country is North Carolina.  There is something about the people, the natural beauty and the food that makes it feel like home.  Unfortunately North Carolina is a five  hour plane flight from Seattle. Thankfully I can now get North Carolina sent to me.  [...]

Simplicity.  It is what I find most interesting about modern design.  Take the Split Watch for example.  By simply twisting the watch 20 degrees on the band the watch is easier to read (for right-handed folks). Enjoy the simplicity and don’t kick yourself too hard for not thinking of it [...]

It has happened to us all.  You are at a coffee shop, the theater or in the car and *tingle* you have been hit by a huge magnetic field.  Damn!  There goes my watch! Worry no more. The new Rolex Milgauss is incredibly resistant to magnetic fields.  How?  The watch [...]

Architect Magazine released their 2010 salary survey last week and as you can imagine 2009 was not a good year for the architecture industry. Firms of all sizes were in survival mode, doing what ever they could to stay afloat. No surprising, the most widely used tool was the lay-off. [...]

Like many of my age group, I own music on every media created. If I had to, and let’s hope I never have to, cull out my collection what would remain would be my electronic music and my records. While I love the clunky 8-track and the cassette is easy [...]

The reasons for me to get an iPad seem to be getting more and more persuasive.

Forbes has released its top ten list of fastest growing retailers for 2010.  I always find this list interesting and a great snapshot of the buying habits of Americans.  I also think it will be a great indicator of what aspects of retail will lead the retail design recovery. Leading [...]

If you watch House Hunters or House Hunters International on HGTV you know that “they” have yet to produce a piece of exercise equipment that looks good in a home.  Without fail each house tour includes a quick peek into the bonus room or basement where these horrid dust collectors [...]

“Fortunes are NOT made in the boom times….That is merely the collection period. Fortunes are made in depressions or lean times when the wise man overhauls his mind, his methods, his resources, and gets in training for the race to come.” – George Wood Bacon Part of my daily routine [...]

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”  Abraham Lincoln I often find quotes from Abraham Lincoln to be the most inspiring.  Not only was he a man ahead of his time he had the ability to communicate in a simple, honest [...]

Ok, this watch is so beautiful it makes me weep! Designed by aluminum with a wristband made of wood.  The concept was derived from an alpine hut and a rock crystal.  Sebastian brings the two inspirations together to wonderful effect.

It has been a while since I posted about a cool watch.  Not to worry, the Aurora is worth the wait. The Aurora is a watch without a face.  Instead, laser light beams are used for the hands.  The red beam indicates the minutes and the blue depicts the hour. [...]

Necessity is the mother of invention.  It’s true.  The world is slowly emerging from the Great Recession of 2009.  The past two years have seen a paradigm shift.  How business will be done in the future has changed.  The business world is wiping the slate clean and developing new rules [...]

This weekend I was able to check a box off my bucket list.  I attended an Olympic event.  The event was Ice Hockey, Team Russia against the Czech Republic. Now I am not a huge Hockey fan but I understand the sport enough to enjoy watching it.  What I found [...]