“You are so inspiring. I want to be like you.” “Yegads, please. Set your sights higher,” I advised. “No really. I thought I was being stupid and irresponsible for doing …
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The Design Chronicles #5: Deep Thoughts
This course has taken over my life, so this is all I can muster up for now. Packaging Deep Thoughts (Backstory: we recently had a brief where I was to …
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The Design Chronicles #4: The Voice
This design course is my current battle field. Each day, I am forced to bleed out yet another new idea from a fully-drained idea bank. I shatter nerves and pull muscle …
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The Design Chronicles #3: It’s You, Not Me
The other week, our class was split into groups. Each group was tasked to create a brand concept around a product that would target a specific demographic. The demographic we were given was …
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The Design Chronicles #2: Mood Board Awakenings
This week, we were introduced to the mood board. Many mood boards. After receiving a client brief and before doing anything — putting pencil to paper, conjuring up color palettes, or …
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The Design Chronicles #1: Into the Wild
I’ve hurled myself headfirst into one of the most ridiculous situations I’ve ever been in. I am now attending a 3-month, intensive, full-time Visual Design course. I knew it was …
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Sacred Space
London It is 4:30 in the (very early) morning. It’s absolutely silent other than the hum of the radiator; dark other than the glow of the kitchen light. The autumn …
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New York, the Buddhist
London “New York will always be here, and [will] never care,” a friend texted. Another friend, in a separate conversation, intimated, “When you leave New York, the void left will instantly …
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Journal Series #3: Creative Imagination
In my efforts to drastically downsize, I’m ‘digitalizing’ my journals. That’s millennial speak for “rereading 15 years worth of notebooks and manually typing notes and highlights into my laptop”. Here, …
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The Psychology of Purging
I am having a slight issue with things. Getting rid of some of them, to be more specific. When I first started purging, I tossed and flung stuff away like …
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