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 […]
Category Archives: Post-Credible Culture
The Professor’s 1st Foray Into Design Philosophy: “Chaos, Clarity, Post-Credibility and The New International Style”
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 […]
The Professor Speaketh: the International Design Conference in Aspen
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 […]
The Professor Opines on “When Design Matters”
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] […]
The Professor Yells, Shouts and Scores concerning “Scream”
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 […]
The Professor and the Fictitious Fruit[s]
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 […]
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 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’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 […]
The Professor Raves, Rants and Rages Against the Machine
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 […]
The Professor was there: X Games 1999
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 […]
The Professor has a soundtrack
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 finds a pair
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 […]
The Professor opines on hidden history [3DP]
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 […]
The Professor / Steven Skov Holt 