Symbols

Common assembly
Dissected drainage
Connected interdependent

Running through vales and mounds sharing a watershed collective, a river links springs, creeks, streams, lakes and the ocean. Areas of land perpetually drain downward into an increasingly large body of water.

“Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation rich in rivers.” – Charles Kuralt

Easy accessibility
Media exposure
Logistic reliability

A recursive message involves invoking the procedure itself, but self-referencing over-stimulation can hinder persuasiveness.

“When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!” – Israelmore Ayivor

Tasty food
Friendly service
Good times

During 1943, Charles “Cotton” Limbocker opened The Chef café in downtown Manhattan, Kansas. The Limbocker descendants closed the restaurant in 1986, but it reopened in 2008 under new management in the same location with the original Chef neon sign still hanging outside.

“Back in the day, you had to eat fast, because you better believe there was somebody behind you, ready to take your seat.” – Kurstin Harris

Urban adventure
Retail environment
Accommodation experience

To support trend conformance, prescribed hipster vibe for sale.

“Habit rules the unreflecting herd.” – William Wordsworth

Happy Foods
In da hood
Welcome folks

And they do coupons.

“Marketing: it doesn’t have to be complicated.” – Mark Barron

Authentic parody
Evident pastiche
Surface images

Focusing in on details, incongruous messaging adorns a Mondrian-like harmony found on a cold winter day.

“The idealist and existentialist arguments for the centrality of the autonomous imagination have, sine the sixties, run the gauntlet of critical suspicion.” – Richard Kearney

Find a home
See how it feels
Keep moving

No matter where you are, the earth continues to travel in space and time within an expanding universe. Certain fundamental aspects of existence are impossible to avoid.

“You have to stay where you are. But people have got this lust for life, and adventure, and a bit of color.” – Pete Townshend

Long gone reminder
Diverse grasslands
Periodic disturbance

The expansive American prairie’s demise was caused by human agricultural conversion. Plowing and cultivation of the native land compromised grass root systems and interrupted survival and renewal patterns.

“We have taken into our language the word prairie, because when our backwoodsmen first reached the land and saw the great natural meadows of long grass—sights unknown to the gloomy forests wherein they had always dwelt—they knew not what to call them, and borrowed the term already in use among the French inhabitants.” – Theodore Roosevelt

Farm lands
Surety bonds
Abstract title

A range of specific interactive pieces of adornment add to the substance of matter. On top of the material physicality of the world, we all must navigate an aggressive cultural patina.

“Sense-data have the “representative function” of making us conscious of material things.” – Alfred J. Ayer

Syntactic terms
Transactional messaging
Denoument catalyst

Background color and symbol arrangement affect information transmission.

“How can we prevent this telescoping of cultures and styles from ending up in kitsch eclecticism, a cool hellenism excluding all critical judgment?” – Nicolas Bourriaud