Why do Creative Agencies Say the Same Thing?
While working on pitches at UXUS, I realised our portfolio and mission could better communicate our expertise. What we were doing within customer experience, brand experience and interior design was...
13 Dec 2020
Challenging Ourselves Through More Adventurous Travel
Over the years, my method for travelling shifted from big city cultural excursions to out-of-the-way adventures. This made me wonder - are others also reconsidering how they travel? Over the...
11 Jun 2019
Freeing Effects of Travel on Creativity
There’s something about travel. It erases our routines, chores and obligations, leaving behind a clearer, more creative mind. When we try to hold onto this feeling after our travels, this...
05 May 2019
The Moral Struggle with your Career Contributing to Consumerism
When you research and design an actual product for mass production, the proximity heightens your awareness. ‘What am I doing’ or ‘What am I contributing to’ taunts you every so...
12 Jun 2017
The Unsung Talents of Footwear Designers
“You’re the first footwear designer I’ve ever met” is a typical response. Introductions around my profession confronts me with how small our population really is. The remark resonates with flattery,...
03 Jun 2016
Reclaiming Your Design Identity
Identity makes the designer. Perspective and experience separates us from other creatives. As a designer a part of a brand, your identity gets complex with the social label and accompanying...
21 May 2016
How a Minimalist Lifestyle Made Me a Better Designer
Your day-to-day choices unconsciously steer your design process. Whichever habits you break or accept, methods you stick to or question will affect your openness, curiosity and intuition. While many make...
02 Apr 2016
Discontent is Good for Creatives, and Here's Why
To be human is to be discontent. On our shelves stand an army of books aiming to extricate this through gaining happiness. Exercises and poetic quotes around the elusive topic...
12 Feb 2016
What Travel Does for a Designer's Mind
While traveling for personal means, I believed my underlying purpose was to identify unknown inspirations. Documenting various exotica like the the walls of Buda Castle, findings in Turkish bazaars or...
20 Jan 2016
Maybe You Need an Inspiration Purge
If many of us designers admire minimalism and simplicity in design, why do we “gather” inspiration? Inspiration as a commodity is neither finite, delicate nor valuable. Let me explain. It...
08 Jan 2016
My Proven Hacks to Starting Side Projects
Starting a side project can feel like growing a new limb for the first time and expecting perfection. Before even buying the pen to put onto paper, your unborn side...
06 Dec 2015
After seven years in the footwear industry, I recognized that footwear designers need a “Trend Ambassador” - someone who can contextualize trends and encourage their application within the product creation...
01 Aug 2015
The Importance of Side Projects
When working for a larger company, one with the required parameters and group decisions, creativity becomes structured. The freedom from either an owned business or school project falls flat, and...
10 Mar 2015
Since 2007 I had a website. The first version made during my middle years at art school mainly ended up as link for potential jobs or internships. My second one...
02 Dec 2014