Jonathan Arnowitz Taylor's Blog

This cruise has been an incredible journey i will write more about that later, unless I don’t. But I want to capture my trip through Egypt to the Pyramids and the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM). So I have prepared 3 comprehensive shared photo albums for your enjoyment. The story begins on the morning of our… Read More

c. 1900: The development of the industrial revolution leads to the separation of the maker of a product from the planner of the product. The maker becomes an engineer and factory, the planner becomes the designer who must interact with many people: client, engineer, and consumer. 1907: Deutsche Werkbund — birth of the idea that… Read More

I have finally finished 7 articles on the Time Scalable Design Process, the guide for every designer to assure their work is both professional and thorough, regardless of the context of the design project. It’s an approach similar to the checklist approach of surgeons or airline pilots as worked out by Atul Gawande in his… Read More

After several failed attempts, I finally was able to make one of my favorite delectable dishes, “Gnocchi Romana.” Unlike the name, it is believed to have originated in Piemonte; and unlike the more famous cousin, Gnocchi, it is not made with potato flour but rather semolina. I tried several times to make this in the… Read More

This past year I have had a fascination with pre-code films–actually the entire arc of the pre-code films that dared to take on subjects that are politically incorrect even today, and the fall of the strict enforcement of the code and its eventual release (only to have it reinstitute in this decade). Especially interesting is… Read More

Now that all three books of the trilogy are out, it’s over due for me to give a summary of these three amazing books. In a short summary I would say The Goldberg Variations trilogy follows Jamie Goldberg from adolescence through early adulthood in 1970s and early 1980s Detroit. In Volume I, Jamie struggles with… Read More

Buy on Amazon Buy discounted direct from the publishers Buy from Barnes & Noble It’s been a long journey: I started this book project back in 2014, 10 years ago. Many things came and interrupted Jamie Goldberg’s voyage from adolescence to adulthood; not least was the passing of my beloved husband, Morris Taylor, COVID, the… Read More

I am so happy to announce that finally someone has reviewed my second volume of The Goldberg Variations: The Redemption of the Damned. In many ways this book is my most daring and innovative work to date. And the review is as lyrical as it is insightful, I have reprinted it below. But you can… Read More

It is now Tuesday 2 days before we leave. We started the day with our morning coffee. We went to a coffee place called the rooster, and indeed I found a rooster painted in chocolate ontop of my cappuccino. Then onwards for a tour of Edinburgh Castle and afterwards we were hosted to a high… Read More

Today’s Fringe festival was a low-key day. It started with a lazy morning and then going to a lunchtime concert at St. Mary’s Cathedral. It featured a youthful all-female ensemble called, the Soteria Piano Trio. They played a varied program. The first half was modern music, but not atonal at all. The core of the… Read More