living as a young designer

this is me, trying to figure out what it means to be alive. eventually.

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July

You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again. — Azar Nafisi

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June

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there. —

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Thank you for leaving behind what you did.
—Daisy

‘Fahrenheit 451’ Author Ray Bradbury Dies At 91

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June

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February

More than half the workers of the world do business in the informal, or shadow, economy—selling legal products in a quasilegal way, or, like the owner of that New York liquor store, selling quasi-legal products in a legal way—and their work is worth more than USD 10 trillion each year. For much of the planet, the global informal economy has become a dynamic and mobile network of ingenuity involving every type of business, from street merchants to mega-corporations.

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This chain also includes a technological feedback loop. For instance, Chinese firms have started producing phones that fit two SIM cards simultaneously because African customers ask for them.

— Robert Neuwirth (PopTech 2011, 2005) Shadow Goods, Makeshift: The Mobility Issue (via poptech)

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January

so good

clientsfromhell:

Me: Here are the photographs from the shoot yesterday

Client: Nice shots - I like this one from behind the man. Can you just flip the image so we can see his face and not the back of his head?

Me: You want me to turn him around in the photograph so you can see his face?

Client: Yes - and maybe we can make him black. Do you have Photoshop?

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January