• Power Play

    There’s something about table games that makes you want to hide them away as soon as you’ve extruded as much fun as possible out of them. An air of abandonment soon settles on the same surfaces that once held such fascination. Foosball, ping-pong, pinball, even billiards become sad stowaways, consigned to the shadowy margins of life’s voyage. But that’s about…

  • Feeling stuck around Social Media?

    I have been writing and blogging about design for over twenty years and I can still feel that way – blocked! That’s one of the reasons I started the Writing Well Workshop Series, Part 2 of which is How to Make Friends and Influence People through Social Media marketing. (Nov 17 at Vanegas, Suite 620 in the Boston Design Center.…

  • Do you and your clients speak the same language?

    Designers and architects are particularly adept at using a visual language to describe what’s going on in a space. Their vocabulary is color, form, volume, texture, light and shadow. But for others — even the most well-educated clients — this particular vocabulary has little meaning. So how do you get across your ideas and accomplishments in a way that does…