Compression Without Loss – The Power of a Well-Packed Idea In the 1964 movie, Mary Poppins, to the children’s delight and amazement, pulls a series of impossibly large items – a standard lamp, a potted plant and a coat stand - from her carpet bag… I first saw the movie ten years later, in 1974, […]
Recently, I had the great pleasure of hosting a Cape Town CEO at my studio for a one-on-one Visual Conversation. We started with a Brain Dump on a large whiteboard. A perfect erasable medium for a shifting and organic conversation. We then moved to working with paper cutouts on my V3 Neuland Graphic Wall. Instead […]
“WHY?!...” Think like a three-year-old… Well, at least one who’s read a few good books… The greatest innovators are those who don’t just think outside the box - they question why the box exists at all. And sometimes, reimagining the box is just the genius of not knowing what’s impossible… Intelligent naïveté is wonder wearing […]
AI promises speed and simplicity - but in outsourcing thinking, creativity, and visual communication to algorithms, we risk losing the human nuance behind meaning-making. Like a high-interest credit card, the convenience comes with a hidden cost: loss of expertise, ethical erosion, and the atrophy of true creative practice. AI is mind-blowing. When I studied fine […]
