Last weekend, I visited Parsons to assist their Summer Intensive Program Orientation Workshop, where students had an hour to make letters out of various materials. The workshop was an amazing way to spend an afternoon and remind myself what it was like to get my hands dirty and simply create. Most of the participants were [...]

I recently started to pick up some new design work, and I was reminded of why I love being a designer. When I design, I can zone in for a solid 4-5 hours at a time without disruption. All I need is loud music and a good rhythm to work furiously and intuitively. Maybe it’s [...]

I stopped making random collages in Photoshop after my first year of university because after being trained to see the world differently, I felt I no longer had the liberty to make uninformed design decisions. I felt a greater responsibility because I had formal training and had no excuse to be contributing to visual pollution. [...]

In whatever written form, I have been keeping a record of thoughts and experiences since I was 8. It can be embarassing reading these accounts from the past because they seem childish and trivial, but recently I’ve found that there is also a lot I can learn from a naïve and optimistic self. Stumbling across [...]

Some mornings are more challenging than others. Sometimes it takes me a few snoozes, but after a bit of bargaining I will eventually find a reason to get out of bed. It always intrigues me to find out what motivates others to wake up and start their day each morning. What drives you out of [...]

As first-year fine art students, we were required to take an unexciting culture studies elective. For many, it was the first time we were introduced to concepts like post-modernism and interdisciplinary studies. The lectures were lengthy and abstract, and needless to say, we complained and ridiculed the content of this class regularly as we didn’t [...]