23-Jun-2008
Yesterday friend Margaret Spencer called to say she had not received a newletter email from me recently and did this mean I was dead. On the contrary, I had totally forgotten to send out newsletters because about 8 months ago I started a new business and now it is June and I missed everything in between.
Pam Heath, once my client at Microsoft, and I have teamed up to do brand consulting and I must say it has been a wild ride. Pam is at home in the world of "innovations engineering," a world that's big here in Seattle. She often says that she is the "fast twitch" muscle of the business, and that I am the "slow twitch." I think that says it perfectly.
First we plunged into a rebrand of a a web design firm, then Microsoft came calling, and now we have gotten involved with some brilliant and highly photogenic young designers in LA and I must say I'm enjoying basking in all that reflected sun and surf. Secretly I am scheming to give some more brand story advice to a great company here in Seattle that makes a skin care product, and so all and all it is a lovely Summer.
In the last couple of months I published two articles I hope you find interesting. One about irony-- which my students know my feelings about-- and one about the idea of "home," which is on my mind a lot right now because I am writing a book about the ideas of home and personal identity.
This is the irony one:
http://www.stepinsidedesign.com/STEPMagazine/Article/28843
The home one is:
http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=3312
Please leave a comment or email the article to a friend you think might be tangled up in home issues. I get so much out of the comments-- they prompt other ideas.
Well, I can't think of anything else except that once again Trixie, Bubbles and Flo will be appearing at the Patsy Cline/Hank WIlliams Festival on Bainbridge this weekend. For the initiated, please attend. For those to whom this makes no sense, you're probably better off.
Write and tell me how you are.
XO Natalia
