Planetary Notes

…or “The Studio is Dead, Long Live The Studio” When I first started Planetary, it was very much just an extension of my freelance w [...]

Good creative feedback is hard to find, and the difficulty of clear communication frustrates the creative process. Creative work — be it designing, [...]

[...] A brief meditation on the Go aesthetic Go intrigues me. It is lauded in most circles as the thinking man’s chess, a game played by [...]

[...] …or “The Studio is Dead, Long Live The Studio” When I first started Planetary, it was very much just an extension of my freelance [...]

[...] Failure sucks. From its economic realities to its ego-deflating self-esteem sap, failure slows you down and holds you back. And while it would be nice to live in a [...]

[...] and re-usable plan of attack. As I put a great amount of faith in hard science, my go-to problem-solving method is typically what’s called ‘hypothesis testing’ — that is, the [...]

[...] of the moment. As a toddler, you describe your feelings through action; as a child, through basic adjectives (sad, happy, mad);… [...]

[...] The rise of the startup economy – and the abundance of millennial entrepreneurial wisdom it has produced – means you can hardly go a day without seeing Samuel Becket& [...]

[...] 2009, back when I was the creative director of a music magazine, I sat on a panel of music industry professionals. The audience was mostly comprised of bands and curious non-music-industry people, so [...]