His bag is full of textbooks, spiral notebooks, and folders. Each weighing him down more and more. The constant stress of deadlines and fear of failure. On his wrist, a watch sits weighing 2.22 ounces yet to him it feels like the heaviest thing he carries. Time has always been his nemesis, stealing his freedom and ignorance. Forcing him to accept the reality that the world will not stop to help you up when you fall. He carries pens running out of ink, pencils with only centimeters left to sharpen, and his Chromebook always needing to be plugged in. Every…
or at least why I aspire to.
I first opened up Photoshop when I was thirteen years old. I had no idea what I was doing or even what Photoshop really was. All I knew was that I wanted to change all the icons on my dock to the shape of iPhone icons. Most flurry icons were on the web, either from The Iconfactory or DeviantArt, but not all.
Fast forward about two months, by now I had discovered Dribbble and eagerly made an account. I was in eighth grade at the time. My best friend and I would sit in the back of the room during…
Jacob Elias
I'm a designer from Chicago, living in Seattle. In my free time I make/write/take-photos-of things and waterski/snowboard/rock climb.
