![]() What’s your current favorite tool or material to work with? It’s so flexible, it’s like a customizable external brain. In the digital world, I use Notion for gathering ideas, notes, and research. ![]() Sometimes I do little sketches in the margins of my notebooks. I use a Muji spiral bound notebook, unlined paper, and a black Le Pen for most writing and idea generation. I’m a longhand writer and a creature of habit. Learning and practicing art and design, studying the history of these disciplines and understanding successes and mistakes made over time, working with color and structure and materials in real world conditions - this experience makes a designer’s perspective unique and vital, even in a world where everyone is in some sense a designer. So to me, anything that helps people reclaim their natural intuition for what feels good in their surroundings and their sense of agency with respect to creating the world that they want to live in is a good thing.Īt the same time, I also believe that just like anything else, the more study and practice we devote to a subject, the more facile we get with it. ![]() And I believe we’re all inherently creative, and that the structure of our economy and our educational system has taken that away from many of us - relegating us to a role of consumers, as opposed to creators. Do you mean the idea of design - and the tools of design - being democratized so that it’s accessible to more people? Fundamentally, I believe that everyone deserves good design. ![]()
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