Designer in Residence - Week 13
I took a look at the big calendar poster on the wall before I took it off from my space. Every single Post-it means a lot to me. It goes beyond the meaning of the word written on it such as “meeting with photographer”, “visit the program sponsor” and “interview the program jury”. It’s part of the creating process for the past 3-month project. I asked other people to help me take a photo with this big-and-expensive poster. I hope the photo will remind myself that we’ve had an exciting-and-wonderful journey at Pforzheim in the summer of 2019 with Dabin, Ganit, Almut, Alex, Fabian, Benedikt, Erwin and Matilde at EMMA Creative Center.
Suddenly, I have a quick thought. Most of time, product and industrial designers devote their whole lives to improving their design skills to make the product 100% perfect, to design every detail and to make sure the business, marketing and manufacturing plans are feasible and practical. But actually, for me, the two most valuable things among all are that you have to immersive yourself in the creative process and to enjoy different moments to start with, and the second one is to learn to communicate and collaborate with other people from interdisciplinary backgrounds as a team.