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I’ve always been a big fan of the Uniqlo website and its creators. Their latest marketing tool is called UTLOOP, an audio-visual loop mixer. Here’s my loop.

I was listening to Grieg’s Ase’s Death from Peer Gynt Suite #1 when I stumbled upon these amazing photos from fisherman/photographer Corey Arnold. It was a beautiful experience looking at his fishing photos from Norway and Bering sea with this Norwegian classic playing in the background, almost as if these two pieces of artwork are actually meant to be experienced together. I believed once again, that nothing is a coincidence.

The site is designed by JD Hooge.

Here is an interesting read by Bob Jacobson, an experience design consultant at Bluefire, and the editor of Information Design. Taken from his keynote at the 3rd International Conference on Information Design (ICID), Curitiba, Brazil, the speech focuses on the concept of “composing” memorable experiences. I think it is a very interesting approach to experience design:

I believe that inspired designing for experience is more akin to architecture and musical composition than it is to conventional design. The variables one must deal with are vast and unknowable in their entirety: the audience’s cultural and experiential legacy, individuals’ past personal histories and experiences, the interplay among design elements and the audience’s interaction with them, the conditions in which experiences are to be had, heuristic filters (how people perceive and evaluate conditions), and so forth.

Full transcript.

I just read a quote from Marc Gobé, who is a world-famous authority on Emotional Design and the author of Brandjam, along with some other branding related books:

Design is to branding as jazz is to music.

I love this statement! I am not sure I fully understand what it actually means, but I like the fact that someone finally observed the correlation between design and jazz, which is something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. Being a devoted follower of both concepts, I’m pretty sure there are a lot of parallels one can draw—only not here or now, maybe in a future post. I do want to talk a little bit about the title of this post though. Continue reading →

Finally I got a chance to listen to Maria Schneider’s new album Sky Blue, which I purchased and downloaded from her website a few weeks ago. I know this is the type of music that requires many listenings before one can fully comment on, but I still wanted to share my first impressions here. Continue reading →