What’s the X to your T-shaped professional profile?

How might we better integrate and communicate our “extracurricular” interests and side projects into our creative practices and professional? How do we present our full selves when we are looking for new jobs or clients?

Let’s Get “Lobal” Trending

Scaling Down and Inverting the Concept of “Glocal”

Another One Joins the Kyu

In January 2014, I wrote an application essay for my Masters degree at Parsons. I wrote about my near decade of experience working in advertising, independent vs. owned agencies, and, ultimately, my desire to study in the SDM program so as to elucidate a cloudy vision I had of the…

What Are We Framing as Innovation?

INNOVATION /ˌinəˈvāSH(ə)n/

noun. The action or process of innovating — a new method, idea, product, etc.

As a designer, I go through such process everyday, iterating from problem to solution to further development in…

A TOOL FOR REFRAMING PROJECTS AND CHALLENGES

There are times when you are working on a project that it feels like there’s no possible outcome outside the obvious, and it’s hard to get to that breakthrough moment. When a solution that would solve the problem in question is not clear at all, it is…

Have we stopped dreaming?

‘It is hard to say what today’s dreams are, they seem to have been downgraded to hopes’ — Speculative Everything…

What I Have Learned About Design

— — my growing process with design

At this moment of almost graduating (after finishing this final blog lol), I have entered this field called “design” for 6 years. During these few years, I kept repositioning myself from an…

Can the death of design firms be a good thing?

“If design firms choose to continue moving in the same direction they used to…

No Design Firms

So let’s talk about DESIGN FIRMS. What can really be considered a design firm? A company that visually and physically designs…