The Professor and the Mystery of his Friend CP // The Enigma Man
This is a different kind of essay for The Professor; not only is it longer but it also delves into the personal history of one of his best friends. Like […]
This is a different kind of essay for The Professor; not only is it longer but it also delves into the personal history of one of his best friends. Like […]
Believing that a design philosophy was increasingly a necessity—and not a luxury as seemed to be the prevailing viewpoint at the time—The Professor decided to set down some of his […]
In early 1996, esteemed colleague and designer-educator Thomas S. Bley invited The Professor to join with him in a presentation to be given the 6th of June at the International […]
NOTE: The following article contains the first usage of the term “designer-hackers” that The Professor is aware of—a phrase that since The Professor first used it [see point 03 below] […]
No, The Professor is not the examining the existential yell/yelp of the Edward Munch painting. And no, he’s not focused on the nicely nuanced Sarah Michelle Gellar movie about a […]
As The Professor has pursued his enthusiasm for teaching the design arts, he has occasionally had reasons to pursue conceptual projects. Usually these were next-generation studies of what a product might […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Professor has recently noticed that his hours and days trickle by slowly but the months and the years feel as if they race by. It’s part of the aging […]
15 Years ago this month, the Professor headed to the Embarcadero, the roadway that runs along San Francisco Bay, to go to the X Games. It started at […]
You know the real-deal Holyfield, the soundtrack plays while The Professor works even though The Professor’s work is mainly play. As 7A3 used to say back in the day, “gettin’ […]
The Professor has been onto the sneaker phenomenon since the days of the very early Air Jordans [his graduate thesis project was about deconstructing the sneaker, literally blowing up the […]
Often when the subject of 3-D printing [3DP] comes up, especially out here in the San Francisco Bay area where The Professor is based, he finds himself chuckling. There are […]