“I am a very highly tuned appreciator.” Curiosity. Appreciation. Imagination. Michael Wolff beautifully filmed by @mssngpeces

Here comes a new film in the Intel Visual Life series. I fell in love with The Sartorialist film, posted below, and now here is another stunning work following Michael Wolff through his day of colourful observation.

“I see seeing as a muscular exercise, like curiosity. I am obsessively interested in everything and that gets more expressed through my eyes than through my ears.”

Lots of resonance here for me in the multidisciplinary design approach and highly attuned attention to detail. I like to think I use those three muscles daily too.

Good ol’ Charles Eames - would so dearly have loved the chance of hanging out with him and Ray for a day. They were such brilliant designers, with a beautifully direct creative ethos:

“Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.”

On an evening when I am frustratedly ‘picking away’ at my corner, I’m bolstered by Charles’ words that my careful, intense picking might make a difference.

My current design storytelling task is to try and find an engaging way to illustrate interconnectivity. It’s all about the connections…

As Charles said: “The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.”

Oh for some Eames-like divine inspiration… I’m trying to channel their playful, joyful and yet functional energy. I might have to sleep on it…