Fifty years ago on Easter Sunday, Gerald Holtom, a graphic artist in England concerned with nuclear proliferation created a symbol based on the semiphore signs for “n” and “d”. Some accounts also credit Bertram Russell with encouraging Holtom. At any rate, the symbol that we all know now to stand for “Peace” originally stood for [...]

Noticed in Atlanta.  Wilson’s The Leather Company featuring canvas and hard-case, non leather baggage and cases. Just feels completely wrong when you walk by stores that have been filled with various items, all in leather for so many years.  It is a pity.

Every business and every brand can be innovated.  Innovation usually benefits the innovator, and sometimes costs not only the competition but other businesses down the line. The Atlanta airport has innovated its baggage department.  The baggage carrousels that used to be so noisy when they started up and ran are now silent.  All the metal [...]