The Professor Opines on the Idea that “Design is a Way of Discussing Life”
Back in the autumn of 1983, The Professor assumed the top editorial spot at ID magazine and ventured to Philadelphia to attend a symposium for the opening of the landmark […]
Monthly Archives: July 2014
The Professor Was There: Virtual Reality, 1988, Addendum to Jaron Lanier
The Professor shared an interview he did in 1988 with Jaron Lanier in a previous post “The Professor Was There: Virtual Reality, 1988” [10 June, 2014]; that post is at: […]
The Professor Opines on a 21st Century Anti-Bowl
This short piece was originally written for the Museum of Contemporary Craft whose 2013 exhibition “Object Focus: The Bowl” put its emphasis not simply on the bowl, as curator Namita Wiggers […]
The Young Professor Slept Outdoors Here: Nepaug Reservoir
The Young Professor spent most of his childhood being outdoors, unsupervised like most kids were at that time in the late 1960s-early 1970s, and generally running amok in rural Canton, […]
The Professor Manufractures Some Haiku
Recently, The Professor posted his first batch of haiku; they were constructed via the processes of appropriation, sampling and stealing [“The Professor on Poetry: Appropriated, Sampled, Stolen,” 10 June 2014]. The […]
The Professor Looks Back: Cameras 1994
Toward the end of 1993, Graphis magazine offered The Professor a project to produce a column on products. It was a bold move on the part of Graphis […]
The Professor: Self-Portrait in Products and Brands
In 1988, The Professor saw the work of Ashley Bickerton at Sonnabend Gallery on West Broadway in SoHo, NYC. It was a revelation. It was neither painting nor sculpture in […]
The Professor was there in 1983: the “DESIGN SINCE 1945” exhibition
The creative climate of today makes it so easy, so natural, to forget the past. The Professor sees it in the business world all of the time, and in the […]
The Professor on the surprise of the mid-season Red Sox
Here we are at the halfway point [81 games] of the 2014 Major League baseball season, a reasonable time for The Professor to take stock of where the Boston Red […]
The Professor’s Process: Willful Misinterpretations #2
Some years ago, The Professor was teaching in New York at Parsons School of Design. It was clear to The Professor, even in that late-1980s time period, that simply solving […]
