Dear <<First Name>>,
money, creativity, movies and scandal...oh my!
Here we are the middle of February and it's 75 degrees outside. Sorry to my New York family for that little rub. I hope it warms up back east and rains out west....in the meantime let's revel in whatever we've got!
Next week I'll be teaching a class on restaurant design at a culinary school here in San Francisco, so I've been busily preparing and culling material so that I don't bore (or overwhelm) this group of future restaurant managers and owners. Sitting down to think about process led me to my first story about budget. I got a bit of flack from some of my web and LinkedIn readers, but I do stand by my words...budgets should not be a secret.
A few days ago I ran across a story about a residential community for Alzheimer's patients in The Netherlands. This story is near and dear to me as my mom suffered from Alzheimer's the last several years of her life. Although we found wonderful caregivers for my mom, the traditional model found in most residential facilities is not a good fit for this population (which is growing by leaps and bounds as baby boomers age and live longer). With memory loss comes a great deal of fear, and a lack of familiarity feeds this fear. An amazing group of caregivers and architects got together and re-created a residential facility with a whole different concept...design thinking and creative problem solving at its very finest.
And finally a couple of fun pieces about creativity and movies for designers...or anyone who is drawn to the visual. Enjoy!
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Keep in touch,
Leslie
interior designer
architecture, design & food blogger
before the beginningThe first step in any interior design project is what we in the field of architecture call 'Programming'. That's where we ask you about your operation, your aesthetic inclinations, how many people will do what and where, etc. But actually, there is a step before Programming. It's kind of like the prologue to the book you just started reading (of course you read the prologue, right?) The prologue to Programming is the budget discussion. more
scheduling creativityIs creativity schedulable? Is that a word? I'd say probably no to both. But the creatives of yore did keep schedules and Mason Currey wrote a whole book describing their schedules. Then various other riffed off the book to create infographics. more
netflix does design(er movies)WIn the past I have done my fair share of entertainment listing. Foodie film lists, obsessive indulgence in the cinematographically superior Breaking Bar, what's avialable at this or that film festival. But for this list I take zero credit.... more
scandalous ads and alzheimersWI don't know about you, but I've noticed a difference in the 'scandalous' ad content over the course of my lifetime. Where the big scandal of my teenage years were those ads about tampons (remember when all you had to do to ride a horse was use a tampon...), the scandal of a few years ago required me to explain a four hour erection to my toddler son. And now those little blue pill ads are being outnumbered by the ads for vaginal dryness. I think the message is that we are getting older. And if my recently passed 102 year old uncle is any indication, living longer. En masse. more
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