A. We like change, but we don’t like being changed. B. We love connection but we don’t love intimacy.C. We value inspiration but we don’t value ideas that aren’t ‘rational’. The common denominator in this ABC is control… A. We want to control the change process, not be controlled by it – other people should […]
Because life is simple and complex. Geometricity describes the interface between geometry (shapes or patterns) and electricity (force). Life in simple terms could be described as a force flowing through a pattern. If we want to change the world (hands up, you know who you are) we need to look at which one of these […]
Like him or loathe him, Malcolm McLaren was a visionary, and in our increasingly myopic world, that’s something we really need to cultivate. So what is the visionary archetype all about? The capacity to imagine. If we want to conjure up some new ‘fit for the 21st century’ patterns, imagination is key. So why isn’t there […]
Is it me or does anyone else want to hit this woman? Every now and then in our pattern forming world, it’s time to create some new images, new archetypes if you will. Some of the old tried and tested archetypes have remained with us since the Greeks, some have had a bit of a […]
In my second life of advertising agency exec (first life – Rock and roll, current life – Geometrician) I was fascinated by silk screen printing. For anyone who hasn’t seen this, (and in the new digital age that’s a distinct possibility) it’s an amazing process. First the image is scanned and separated into four colours. […]