Language is a strange thing. I have been thinking about language’s effects on thought since Nadeem asked me the other day whether I think in Turkish or English. It’s a difficult question to answer. My first response was “I don’t think in a specific language” but now I am not so sure. I know that [...]
Kate and I had an interesting conversation yesterday at Rock Bottom Brewery about art and design and whether they stand at opposite ends of an imaginary spectrum or not. Eventually we put “engineering” and “art” on opposite ends of a spectrum and decided design falls somewhere in the middle. Going towards the art end on [...]
What is the best way to tell someone that you are not happy with their service but you appreciate the effort? I keep finding myself in these situations where I end up extremely annoyed at the service but I can’t decide whether it’s fair to punish (most of the time by complaining) the “server”. For [...]
Am I the only one with a box full of different sizes, shapes, colors, patterns and textures of notebooks/sketchbooks sitting somewhere waiting to be used while I am looking at other lovable ones at those lovable museum shops? When I was at the MCA last week and at the museum store I came across “Keel’s [...]