Fresh Eyes on Design
By Sophie Richards, Project Manager of MOCA+ Illustrated by Jacqueline Colley As a newcomer to the world of design, my trip to Palm...
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Apr 13, 20211 min
Collective Conscience at its Finest
This month our client Amberleaf Home, with whom we have been working for over a year, asked us to join them in their quest to unite all...
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Dec 15, 20202 min
Making Sense of 2020
Perhaps the best that can be said of 2020 is that we have, indeed, been living in “interesting times.” Inarguably, the COVID 19 pandemic...
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Aug 14, 20201 min
A Lonely Planet
There are more and more days when I feel like a satellite, drifting along in my little Zoom box, tending my portal to the rest of the...
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Aug 13, 20201 min
What Matters Most
“Why is there rice in my salt shaker?” she said. That is how it all started. 45 years ago this week, my friend and soulmate Liz Hudson...
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Aug 11, 20201 min
WHY: IT MATTERS
When we tap into the hearts and minds of the most design-minded leaders, we find out much more about our future. Sharing A Decade of...
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Jul 24, 20201 min
Let’s All Take Five
The Design Insights Forum is a powerful barometer of today’s affluent design thinking consumer. These buyers and bellwethers are also...
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Jun 11, 20201 min
Follow the Leader
It only took one hard hat tour of Chip Conley’s new hotel (Hotel Vitale), and I was hooked. Of course, I was invited for the design, but...
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Jun 9, 20201 min
Starting Here, Starting Now
Last night’s conversation with Stevie Lee gave us all the opportunity to listen as we have never before. This is what we will foster...
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May 29, 20201 min
An Ode to Joy
When we have the chance to host a titan of an industry, the opportunity is much greater than the exploration of their accomplishments in...
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May 22, 20202 min
Summer Stock
As a child growing up in a house full of readers, books were top dog, the newspaper did most of the talking at the breakfast table and...
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May 21, 20201 min
Use Your Head
It’s no longer a big word - neuroscience that is. It’s been around for at least 2500 years...Hippocrates argued that the brain is the...
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May 15, 20202 min
Face Value
There’s an in-your-face irony to the fact that I’ve been face-to-face with more faces every day in isolation than I ever was in the...
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May 8, 20202 min
Magical Thinking in a Scarcity Mindset
I’ve spent a lifetime in fabulous kitchens that are not mine. My own kitchen is more modest than the one of my dreams, but every time I...
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May 6, 20202 min
Celebrating Bruce Mau - Now More Than Ever
JOIN US! Collective Conscience Salon - May 11th at 6pm My first introduction to “design thinking” and the work of Bruce Mau was picking...
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May 1, 20202 min
The Power of Emotional IQ
Like so many of us these days, I’ve built a carefully fortified wall around my news consumption – but when I hear the no-nonsense dulcet...
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Apr 24, 20202 min
Come As You Are
There is a well-worn story among my old friends about the time my then 80-year-old father – all of his faculties intact – tooled down to...
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Apr 23, 20201 min
When Everything is Magic
Nothing reminds us how important the mundane or the ordinary really is until we are challenged to “sit with it” for longer than a minute....
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Apr 16, 20201 min
The Long and Short of It
Most of us can handle bad news, tough roads, setbacks, and life-altering events, but the battle we face today is different for everyone...
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Apr 15, 20202 min
Flipping the Burden
I miss driving around town with my son. I’m not sure he would agree, but I feel my parenting goes up a notch when we’re side by side in...
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