If there was ever a sure destiny, a sort of beautiful, inevitable fate at work, it was my love affair with the Novi. —Andy Granatelli, in They Call Me...
Soon after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown started, one friendly neighbor began posting a series of scavenger hunts on our neighborhood listserv to...
Ukrainian-born artist and author, Boris Artzybasheff (1899–1965), was known primarily for his work as an illustrator, especially for children’s books...
I have a teenaged daughter who lives and breathes ballet, and as she improves I am constantly amazed not only by her growing artistry but her...
Navigating a supermarket today is strikingly different than only three months ago. Store layouts designed over the past 100 years encouraged shoppers...
Graphic designer Susan Kare is the “woman who gave the Macintosh a smile.”1 She is best known for designing the distinctive icons, typefaces, and...
The built environment that surrounds us is a serious matter, especially to Elaine Ostroff (1933–). An educator, advocate, problem solver, and...
For those of you who have read some of my previous blogs, particularly “Preparing to Stretch,” you may be aware of the “lull” time that occurs in my...
When Al Gore* invented the Internet, never could he have envisioned that it would become the existence-augmenting system it has become.
Just this...
The first shopping cart in the United States was patented in 1940 by Sylvan Goldman. The cart had two baskets that sat on a folding frame, one on the...
In 2011 I was managing the Explore More Stuff Lab at Discovery Place in Charlotte, North Carolina. As part of an upcoming lab unit we had received a...
The humble chair has long been the subject of invention and reinvention. From reclining and office chairs to today's ever-shrinking airline seats...
On Halloween day, a gorgeous 40-foot-tall black specter mysteriously rematerialized at its old haunts on the west lawn of the National Museum of...
When it comes to inventive uses of color, there is hardly a more inspiring example than the contributions of the late husband-and-wife design team of...
