Simplicity

Classic - simple and efficient. It’s a luxury in my messy craftsman’ mind. This is the proof for necessity of spirituality. Work as meditation session - that’s the right approach.

It’s not that I’m making fun of it. I’m having fun - that’s different. It is one of my latest pieces as bottom maker. Stands out, due to its unapologetically plain form. I’m impressed by simplicity of this project. That kind of outcome is somewhat undoable to me still, because I suffer from the tendency to over-complicate things.

One needs to stay humble. One needs to be patient. The more extraordinary stuff you do, the more mentally you wanna get back to the basics. A wild period is necessary to fully realize that simple truth. Just like in life itself. "If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain." Or so they say…

Back in my IT days, I’ve learned that the real sophistication is embedded in simple solutions. The same paradox is to be found in design language of physical products too. The end goal is to make the solution feel like something intuitive or even inevitable as years of research into how stands behind it.

Clean lines, nice curves. Everything’s for a reason here.

For the time being, I get my kicks trying to figure out tricks that are hard to accomplish. But I feel in the bottom of my stomach, that the time of tears of joy running on my cheeks is near. Time of crying for a reason. And that reason is good simplicity in design and execution.

I’m a person of explosions. If I want to write something, for instance, for the longest time I feel like I’ve got nothing to say. All of the sudden, though, the beautiful waterfall of words runs from the brain to the edges of fingertips. Likewise, I can experience weeks without a clear vision of shoe design in my head, but then it comes along and stamps imagination permanently.

That explosions needs a fuel. They need an inspiration. That subject is important enough to anchor a whole new post around it. What I want to say here, is that this kind of odd jobs, when the design comes from somebody else, clears your mind and opens you up for new jumps into adventures. My day job is like a gift of happy accidents. A potent fuel to my own career.