THE SPARK BLOGS: LOW TIDE & HIGH TIME

We believe this is a tremendously important time in our lives, with many new paths opening and the need for deliberative thinking and innovation never greater.

We think that professional designers have many tools that can help find broader solutions to issues we face. In the same regard, non-professionals and students-- all creative people with innovative ideas, should have  access to the world stage and the tools to shape it. These are exciting times. There is much to discuss!

MORE: ON THE NEW SPARK BLOGS

Happy to announce news that the Spark Blog Team is starting to rock & roll. We think you’ll enjoy reading their take on design. It might be happy or hard, wild, wooly, funny or newsworthy-- hopefully all at once!. It may be a review or an opinion. It may be a comment and a bit of video fluff clipped from some other life. It may be short, or story-length, light or formal—well, you get the idea.

The bloggers will be coming on stream over the next several weeks. Here's the cast to date:

  Sally Dominguez, Rainwater Hog LLC
Architect and product designer Sally aims her sharp Australian wit at the design scenes on both sides of the Pacific. Check Shapesters and ASIANLINE for Sally



  Clark Kellogg, Partner, Collective Invention
From his perspective as a consultant, architect and graphic designer, Clark holds forth on Design At Large in the D/Views Blog


 
  Peter Kuchnicki, President, Spark Awards
He promises to not be a heavy-handed blog editor and to try to contribute on a regular basis and be a good example to the team—in D/News and ASIANLINE

And Coming Soon To This Theatre!
 

Steve Prastka
Recently Director of Intel’s Product Design, Steve now heads an industrial design consultancy. He keeps an eye on design developments in the great American Northwest for Shapesters and in Shanghai for ASIANLINE

  Marc Gobe, Principal, Emotional Branding
A leading figure in the exciting brand  and image creation world, Marc explores the elusive links between the heart, the hand and the eye, in D/Views

  Manuel Saez, Manuel Saez Design
Top product and furniture designer Manuel writes with candor, tough love and good will about design and the designer’s path--in Shapesters


 Margeigh Novotny, MOTO Design
Information architect, design theorist and interface designer Margeigh keeps the DIGE Blog where it belongs—on the edge

 David Meckel, Director of Research and Planning, California College of Arts
One of Spark’s guiding lights, David begins an exploration of Public Architecture in July. He hopes to find Emerald City and we’ll be with him all the way

John O. Norquist, President & CEO, Congress For The New Urbanism
John is a founding member of the Spark Council, and a leading force in the New Urbanism movement. Visit P.ARCH and join John's tour of Street Networks and the new city
 

 Kristen Richards, Editor-in-Chief, ArchNewsNow

Kristen has written about the architecture industry, the firms, and the personalities for 20 years. She is also Editor of Oculus magazine and e-Oculus for the American Institute of Architects (AIA) New York Chapter. Look for Kristen in P.ARCH

  Dan Sturges, Intrago Mobility
A pioneer of alternative transportation and system design, Dan will spotlight the tough design choices ahead for the world of transportation—and some surprisingly happy opportunities. GOING Blog

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