Lake Tahoe and evergreen tree, painted view...

One of the views from the cabin deck looking out to Lake Tahoe, digital paint view, a combination of lines, filled outlines, color shapes...

Gensler Oakland and new friends

Created a cartoon graphic for part of the welcoming package for staff coming to the new office for Gensler in Oakland...

Boston banner illustration installation

...and now I have received a photo from Jeanne Nutt in our Gensler Boston office, where we can see the installation of the Boston illustration.  Super! 

 

Boston banner progress and detail

...detail of left side of banner for Boston meetings, including the Museum of Fine Arts and the wonderfully proportioned Boston Public Library by McKim Mead and White...

Progress stage on Boston banner illustration

The Oaktown magazine Fall Issue

iOS 8 and the rest is history...

Muji and Uniqlo, design and experience blog link

http://www.gensleron.com/lifestyle/2014/9/23/retail-design-and-experience.html

 

"...Memories. That is what design experience is really all about. That is what design retail experience is all about. Embracing personal memories and creating new ones. 

I remember my first visit to Mujirushi (now Muji Global) Tokyo in 1992. The shop was located in Aoyama, across from the Meiji dori and the multi-leveled and formative shaped building Spiral dreamed by Fumihiko Maki in the late 1980s of Bubble Japan..."

 

beckoning kitty welcome 

the business card case holder

Tokyo Sky Tree, the tower and the features illustrated...

Tokyo Skytree 東京スカイツリー,)))  is a broadcasting, restaurant, and observation tower located in Sumida, Tokyo.   It  reached its full height of 634.0 metres (2,080 ft) in March 2011, making it the tallest tower in the world, and the second tallest structure in the world after Burj (829.8 m/2,722 ft).
You can ascend the tower by high speed elevators and reach two observation levels shown in the illustration.  The wait in line can be quite long, so reservations online are highly recommended.   Once you do reach the upper branches of the tree, the views are spectacular, and Mount Fuji looks larger than ever before!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Skytree

Tokyo Sky Tree, single frame view

The story about the Tokyo Sky Tree is very interesting, especially in view of the recent articles about architects and towers reaching higher and higher each year...

Here is a view of my illustration right after the organic growth of solar leaves sprout...

Tokyo SkyTree, Tokyo, Japan, including the leaf version

View from Shinkansen, study 2, version up...

close up look at DFW painted view at Gate 9 Terminal E

a closer view of the jetway connector at DFW in the heat of the afternoon,  tired and exhausted...

DFW terminal E Gate 9, 95 degrees in July...

...some layover time spent at DFW on the way back to Cali, spotted an open mouthed jetway connector gasping for air in the 95 degree heat of the Texas July sunshine.

Super Meeting at Gensler in Denver, Constellation of Stars

Great meeting with the Gensler crew at the Inverness Lodge outside of Denver, CO... Top drawing shows a view of Diane Hoskins demonstrating some of the skills/aspects of Disruptive Innovation.


The drawing below captures the flavor, the energy and the dialogue of the leaders of the Constellation of Stars and the diversity of the firm.

A view into the future of Oakland, a speculation...Work Live, Love and Thrive in the City

 

 

The presentation video for the Work in the City project has now been submitted.  One of the images featured in the video is an illustration of the city of Oakland in a future speculative view...shown here is the lower left corner of the illustration.

 

"Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum"  Spinoza

Speculative drawing of Oakland interventions and additions, progress stage

An aerial view framework of the city of Oakland, with speculative urban interventions and designs.