-
![]()
Sigma Seven
Archaeology now. Back in 1996 I had a design studio with my friend David Oppenheim. This was our digital press kit – on a floppy disk. We worked together for 2…
-
AGI and the Future of Magazine Publishing
So I asked ChatGPT to tell me about the potential impact of AGI on magazine publishing. With the release of ChatGPT 4 yesterday (described here by the team at OpenAI and here…
-
The Tokenization of News
As I was working with The Wall Street Journal last year on their redesign I started to question why and how people interact with the news. When we read the news, what…
-
Asking a better question
It doesn’t get better said than in this conversation between John O’Donohue and his friend John Quinn in their book, Walking in Wonder. “One of the most exciting and energetic forms of…
-
![]()
Introducing Sift:lab
After much thinking about what clients and their customers need most I’ve decided to launch Sift:lab. It’s a collaborative group of people who will be working with clients who are determined to…
-
![]()
Creativity as a path
Cultivating awareness of self and others is central to the path of Buddhism but if applied to the path of creativity and design specifically it opens up the possibility of becoming more…
-
![]()
The Friendly Sniper
My father gave me this bullet. We lived on the top floor of our apartment building in West Beirut during the civil war. We were just a few blocks away from the…
-
![]()
Unbiasing the News
For years our highest aspiration in the world of design was to make things “sticky”. The economics of startups made it so. Our guru was Nir Eyal and his book, “Hooked, How…
-
![]()
Turning the Data Black Box Inside Out
A small retailer wants to open a new store. Who does she turn to? A good real estate agent is hard to find and trust. And research is hard to do. What…
-
![]()
Changing the World is the Only Fit Work for a Grown Man (or Woman)
A fantastic bio of Howard Luke Gossage, an ad man from the 60s who did many, if not all, of the most memorable campaigns in the US. Of particular interest is the…
