17th May 2019 / Alan Moore
We walked out Step by glorious step Each footfall into knowing each other A little better Becoming felt knowledge as Time expanded our human nature Vulnerabilities shared Understanding narratives can hold Us in our own solitary prisons How to let go? There is truth in beauty Walking in beauty We are naturally more truthful About […]
read full article2nd March 2019 / Alan Moore
Beautiful Leadership Workshop Our Beautiful Business Faculty is offering, in collaboration with Interface, a one-day interactive experience on Beautiful Leadership. A day to become a more beautiful human, leader and maker by integrating beauty into your daily practice. This experience is for leaders, makers and investors who are looking for a transformational leadership experience to […]
read full article2nd March 2019 / Alan Moore
Morning ritual. We walked. Having the gorgeous backdrop of Óbidos and its coast was a gift. Something magical happens where the land greets the sea segueing with the sky. We made tracks – tracks a metaphor for a path walked. Who were we? “We” were 70 human beings working together, as one company. ‘We’ were […]
read full article31st January 2019 / Alan Moore
At the beginning of 2019 Larry Fink CEO of Blackrock Investments wrote his yearly letter to CEO’s, Purpose and Profit. He argued that there is an urgent need to take the long-term view, but that short termism to protect legacy businesses, and monopolistic powerbases is detrimental to what happens next. Fink believes that ‘Purpose Will […]
read full article7th January 2019 / Alan Moore
The Business Case for Beautiful Business Every morning I walk in the countryside, during which I reflect on the many aspects of beauty, what beauty means to me as an individual, and, what beauty means for the work I do. What beauty means were we to use it as a frame and practice for ‘living’ […]
read full article14th December 2018 / Alan Moore
Rachel Rose Interview: Between Living and Non-Living from Louisiana Channel on Vimeo. Meet the praised New York-based video artist Rachel Rose, who creates visually poetic and multi-layered narratives, exploring different “scales of mortality”: “I try to use myself a bit like a tiny sensor, and then quickly move outside myself to the place that it […]
read full article6th December 2018 / Alan Moore
Emerson said beauty gets us out of surfaces and into the foundation of things. The Shakers, Doug Engelbart (the designer of the mouse and video conferencing), the inventor of Aikido, and tech company Raspberry Pi all share a common theme — they have all brought the new into the world, increasing our social, spiritual and economic potential. […]
read full article28th November 2018 / Alan Moore
Sometimes, we need to feel something rather than analyse it. To feel time, to feel space and place, to feel love and to reflect, to touch and go into nature and revel in the crafting of of something unique. Sometimes we need to be open to a new experience, to take its crooked path to […]
read full article17th November 2018 / Alan Moore
“The time of thoughtless design for thoughtless consumption is over” — Dieter Rams. Gary Hustwit writes, “For over fifty years, Dieter Rams has left an indelible mark on the field of product design and the world at large with his iconic work at Braun and Vitsoe. The objects Dieter has designed have touched the lives of millions […]
read full article16th November 2018 / Alan Moore
Bjarke Ingels Interview: The Beauty of the Human from Louisiana Channel on Vimeo. “The one thing all humans share is that we all inhabit the same limited amount of real estate, which is planet earth.” Danish architect Bjarke Ingels discusses an ultra local approach to architecture in a global world. The beauty of the human […]
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