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 […]
