My vision of the future

I was asked the question.  I started to write an off the cuff list.  Here it is:
* Crowdsourcing the solution to function and design questions.
* The intelligent craftsperson is the visual world’s thought leader.
* A challenge to the primacy of traditional currency – a resurgence and innovation in barter.
* The most useful and most simple [...]

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Barcelona, Love, & the Economy

By December 1st, my boyfriend and I will have transplanted ourselves from Paris (me) and London (he) to a cozy 45 square meter flat in Barcelona.  I’ve had a tendency through the years to disclose my flights of fancy in ill-conceived rushes of enthusiasm only to later regret it. As we all know, sometimes visions [...]

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End of the Year 07 – Recorded Shifts

Here’s one of the better, more succinct trend articles of the end of the year discussing the impact of High Net Individuals, the growing middle class’ ever-shifting definitions of luxury, and a consumption cluster effect the writer calls “spheres” which combine experiences, physical goods, and other self-identity purchases and behaviors that go beyond individual hard [...]

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Article I wrote for Terrace Magazine, a new magazine by Trace

It’s on the topic of the Design Moment and it’s published in this first issue of Terrace by the founders of the brilliant and inimitable Trace. Pick it up at your local (better) newsstand. By the way, that’s me with the hat in the lower center square.

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