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I’m sitting at a Starbucks in L.A. right now, thinking: “this really is the most diverse place in the world.”
Everyone who comes through the door tells an entire life story in the way they hold themselves; the way they walk; the way they order their coffee. Everyone has a past, a future, and most importantly - a present. I try to make eye-contact with every single person. Some look me straight in the eye and smile; others keep their eyes to the distance and floor trying to hide in the crowd. Still others busy themselves with their phones; laptops; newspapers - ignoring the world around them and trying to feel more important than everyone else.
Everyone has a different story. Every life expresses something different.
This is a sort of appendage to my last post - Design 101.
In a few conversations stemming from that post, I’ve had a couple people ask me what I’m expressing in my designs. I didn’t want to go that specific in the last post, because I didn’t want to impose my expressions on anyone else. Everyone is different, and everyone has a knack for expressing certain things better than others. The important thing is that you are expressing something - anything.
But, it might be helpful for some to get an idea of what some other designers express. So here’s the deal: I’m going to share mine, and then YOU have to post your’s below in the comments 
Here’s me:
When I learned the important lesson that good design, like art, HAS to be an expression, I made a pact with myself: NEVER again will I make a design that isn’t an expression of my life. Since then (in varying degrees) all of my designs have been a retelling of my own life through art.
So what are the bullet items in my life that are constantly oozing out into my designs?
- Community - we are social creatures.
- A love of life; people.
- Freedom and Independence to be ME.
- The importance of change; dynamism; new experience.
- The connectedness of every thing & every idea: holism.
- Harmony between everything: in a perfect world, the kind that I want to see and will always work to achieve, NOTHING should suffer at the hands of something/someone else.
- On top of these, anything else that is currently on my mind.
Now its your turn: what does your design or your art express? POST A COMMENT BELOW!
Design 101: Don’t Decorate.
Get this out of your head: design is not about decoration. It is about art.
And if you think art is only about being pleasing to the eye, then please - for your own sake and all of ours - please stay out of the design business.
There. I said it. Call me a heretic if you want. Don’t read any further if it offends you. But, if you’re intrigued, follow the “Read more” link for the explanation.
