VECTA Furniture Catalog (design, production, and management)

VECTA Furniture Catalog (design, production, and management)

In 1989, VECTA, a division of Steelcase, asked TheUnderstandingBusiness to look at their catalogs as a system. I was handed four or five catalogs and asked to clarify the information in them, remove needless redundancy, combine them as much as possible (to cut...
OfficeACCESS (design, production, and project management)

OfficeACCESS (design, production, and project management)

In 1989, I was asked to manage this project. It was one of the first books I did from start to finish, for publication.  It was a partnership between Steelcase and TheUnderstandingBusiness about designing better offices and workspaces. The New York Times published a...
Pacific Bell SMART Business Pages prototype (design)

Pacific Bell SMART Business Pages prototype (design)

This was to be a business directory to state (in this case, California) businesses for distribution to overseas and out-of-state industry. It described the state’s largest companies with information about each. The system was iconographic so that even if...
Pacific Bell SMART Pocket Pages prototype (design)

Pacific Bell SMART Pocket Pages prototype (design)

Another project from 1988 at TheUnderstandingBusiness. This was a mobile version of the Yellow Pages (back when mobile meant small for your car glovebox or purse). It was a separate subset of the listings and categories in the standard Yellow Pages for an area (only...