Change is happening.
After graduating in May of last year, I needed some time off to let everything settle down. So many ideas and thoughts were floating in my head and it was hard to see clearly where I want to go and what I want to do. Phases like these can be intimidating, but I've learned that sometimes the best thing to do is to just stay the course and do nothing until the next big thing hits you in the head. A good friend of mine (who's also a very talented designer) once told me that "as designers we need to learn to love living in chaos". Every design process begins with complete chaos, the questions out number the answers and it seems as if they keep piling up. But good designers are people who are able to embrace this state of chaos and learn to swim in it. So that's what I've been doing, embracing chaos.
In the past two weeks something began to happen. It isn't tangible, it has no physical presence and no visual manifestation, but I can feel its presence. The best way to describe it is using the idea of temperature. It might be the Spring that's starting to show first signs...or it's the fact that I was sick and had a fever for the past week, I'm not sure. Whatever it is, the rise in temperature is causing some kind of reaction.
Now, we all know that changes in temperature change the state of things, this change can influence matter and has the ability to transform things. And my job is to make sure that this change or transformation is channeled in the right direction. I'm not sure how this is done but I'm pretty sure that design (as a process) is the key to successful transformation.
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