The Future is Not Your Heritage, Sorry
The most meaningful necklace I received said, “Always Go Forward and Never Turn Back.” Sure, it had some religious connotations, but the message stuck. Every generation cycles though craving past...
11 Aug 2016
Heritage. If you work within the greater fashion industry, whether its footwear, apparel or marketing, someone mentioned the word heritage. You probably tried it on for size, mixing it with...
07 Jul 2016
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
Who isn’t a blogger these days? Why is this girl posting links to her blog? Why is she even writing in the first place? I wonder the same. Answering such...
17 Mar 2016
Five Strategies to Conquer Your Fear of Asking
If you never ask the answer is always no. We all heard this one once, twice or hundreds of times in our adult life. But why do we still shy...
04 Mar 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
Unexpected Lessons from My First Ever Fashion Week
Fashion weeks are not impossible invite-only, secret password, double-encrypted events for fashionista special agents. They’re a collection of worthwhile fashion. This January I attended my first full fashion week right...
02 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