I love this q & a. It’s like the recent bathroom video — real content. Nothing against the commentary, observations, and photos on this blog — it’s all done very well — but this type of content is especially meaty and er, fresh and gives us a glimpse of what your water cooler conversations would be like in Pacifica. Thanks.

[...] Somehow, Steve Portigal and Dan Soltzberg are discussing the act of observation when they intertwine observation, design and Repo Man. “… In fact, in Repo Man, Harry Dean Stanton’s character makes a comment about this very phenomenon—something like, “You’re thinking about a plate o’ shrimp, and then suddenly someone’ll say ‘plate o’ shrimp’ out of the blue….” And of course, through the whole movie, signs for “plate o’ shrimp” are everywhere. …” (AIGA) [...]

[...] workshop on noticing at the Design Research Conference; happiness and noticing; Dan and Steve write about the power of noticing for AIGA [...]