gmgm!⚡️
for those who dont know, im a self taught designer and recently, i’ve been getting questions abt my transition from math/data to design
so! here’s a thread 🧵 curated by me for my aspiring designer homies (and my past self) abt my design journey + hella resources<3
just saw this dude on tiktok advocating for flirting more and honestly it makes so much sense?? flirting is the art of human connection and conversation. it’s energetic exchange through words and body language. it requires mastering being present and intentionality
i am on a personal journey to increase my rizz ten fold in these upcoming weeks and months
me: see a cute guy or girl? go ask for their number. see a project i wanna work on? dm that person. wanna be friends with that person? text them.
the key is self security not desperation
i ate dumplings today. i touched grass today. i lifted heavy things today. i cooked bussin food today. i read today. i listened to techno today. i talked to friends today. i am happy here:3 smol wins
post eth denver thots and feelings:
in awe of how much I learned this past week, extremely grateful to be surrounded by such intelligent and inspiring frens, ready to pour 100% into myself + my passions and get fucking cracked
a couple days ago, my design partner maggie and i wrapped up prototyping for the app we've been designing, Interspace!
interspace is a visual information mapping interface and tool for thought - more details + demo soon !
if there's one thing i've learned this year, it's that the universe will not let you succeed by living in the past. the glory days are a scam homie, we as humans are meant to constantly evolve
be bold be courageous and the universe will(!!) return blessings
on a related note:
the bit abt avoiding suffering is that there’s rlly no way around it lol. it's easy to let go of fear when you can admit something's scary
erm?? i knew there was something sus going on when all the new hires were cute 20yr old asian girls who were being flown out everywhere ("for marketing")
Growing up, I remember being told that I shouldn’t rock the boat.
But nothing changes when you stay silent.
I am an optimistic nihilist, but strive to always emphasize the optimistic bit — that there’s always some lesson to be learned, or jubilation to celebrate.
Last year, I
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GUYS ! I'm launching my own magazine!
The Curatorial Cabinet is a contemporary and visual culture magazine and digital copies of first issue titled “Home is a Liminal Space” will be available early August. Super excited to see this coming into fruition. Cant wait to share <3
lots 2 be grateful for this year. quitting my job to pursue my passion full time. hitting all my financial goals. living and traveling all over the country. so much writing, reading, art. friends who love me deeply. mentors. family. growth. so many lessons. we stay peaking
"crossing the threshold of change means that everything is open for questioning. And with that questioning comes greater potential for fulfilling a purpose and making a change that actually matters"
today's my one year in new york:) many takeaways but i am incredibly grateful to this city. I've never been closer to and accepting of who i am, and i largely contribute it to the intolerance of both judgement and authority in this city.
in the span of a year i've discerned:
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profile card component I whipped up for Friendship Greenhouse, a personal relationship crm!🌷
i've pondered what social media could be if profiles exhibited shared group and relationship stats as a way to foster social connection outside of "media"
the cycle of death and rebirth is the constant act of picking yourself back up over and over again till you build enough emotional resilience to where it becomes second nature
wrapped up the demo for Interspace a few nights ago!
Interspace is a non-tabular and spatial information mapping tool that helps you discover webs of information you gather for yourself and others.
it allows you to recontextualize and source content that you save or create from
im going to write more about this soon but THE WAY i use my math degree every day as a designer is wild. the intersectionality btw the arts and maths is so incredibly prevalent in our day to day i cannot stress this more
you are serving no one minimizing your accomplishments. high effort and resiliency is attractive and hot! nonchalance and passion are incompatible
MAKE YOURSELF BIG. Bigger than you ever have before. So big you block the sun and the stars fear you 🌑
we r sillymaxing tenfold this year frens!! i am singing, dancing, sticking my head out the car window, jumping in fatty puddles, climbing trees, laughing until my stomach hurts, exploring the depths of joy
gm, happy august🌻
moving out to new york tomorrow:)
quit my day job at the end of june to pursue full time design and had a very mentally+emotionally challenging july trying to find my footing again, regain my sense of self security and confidence
here’s what I learned:
being in my 20s is so😵💫 i oscillate between chaos and stability. i’ve outgrown many relationships but have less patience to nurture new ones. i think about which parts of myself to hold onto and which to let go
sitting in on a lecture at usc rn and GOD i miss school so much more now that i'm out of it. i love learning i love soaking in knowledge and hearing a professional in their field talk about a topic so much more in depth than you would ever think about
recently, i just completed a full year as a freelance visual systems designer, and looking back, i failed a lot lol. but this also means i learned a lot!
i've accumulated my knowledge into a thread/guide on how to freelance- wish i had this + hope to help out some folks ^_^
after many airport conundrums and much (self inflicted) headassery, im on my flight to tokyo!! feeling berry excited for this upcoming month and lots of gratitude that this is my life :3 i’m off~
spent the majority of today geeking out about this graph and it’s designer. three of my favorite things- data math and design- intersected beautifully in this project. theres so much more to data visualization than poorly colored bar graphs and pie charts!!!
new project alert!
a few months ago, my friends and i collaborated with
@Uniswap
to host a private 5-course, 12-person dinner for lunar new year!
we conceptualized Dot Rice: a series of fine dining installments, pop ups and private dinners started by my friend
@_ericzhong
i’m a huge believer of not trying too hard. intentionality and effort is incredibly important but there’s a balance to everything. i think the main bit here is not attaching your effort to your self worth. if you let go a little, the universe will meet you halfway
shrawberry’s day 1 in tokyo (so far):
- got on the wrong train and paid for the same ticket 3 times
- embarrassed when someone speaks to me in english
- 7/11 onigiri 3x in the same hour
- gave up on public transportation and walked across the city for an hour with my suitcase
i started a newsletter about cool art+design stuff i find while sleuthing the interwebs!
the recent obsession of mine is specifically around data visualization stuff and i wrote about this beautiful collection of data maps i found that explores relationships between humans
i need to say this loud and clear to myself because i've been angry about it for quite some time and its been bubbling inside of me:
you are not doing yourself ANY favor by keeping yourself small and the ONLY thing standing between yourself and success is how loud you are
hullo frens good evening
who are some of the sickest artists, designers and creatives u know?
i made a telegram gc for creatives a while back with my friend
@0xnaan
comment/dm if u wana get added to it:)
let’s share cool art, feedback and grow together hehe
just had an hour long debate with my friend and realized that we were both expressing the same sentiment but just communicating it differently
crazy how any disagreement can be boiled down to a mutually shared emotion accompanied by mismatched logical fallacies
just booked my flight to new york! so much transient change in the air. excited for this move. finally committing to the east coast. eta< 2 weeks. more soon xoxo
>sitting in a coffee shop early morning, ready to do work!!
>catches a vibrational frequency of intense emotion
>crying in a coffee shop bathroom for unexplainable reasons
>finally processes a traumatic event from 2 years ago
>is this catharsis???
>back to work!:)☀️
increasingly convinced that everyone already possesses the tools needed to achieve their versions of success but what separates the winners from the losers is execution
passion is hot but agency is hotter
confidence is high vibrational energy it’s electric it’s attractive. it’s conviction it’s eye contact it’s it’s being vulnerable it’s self expression it’s living in your own story
my friend pissed on the side of the street after a night out and some cops caught him lmfao… made him buy a bucket of bleach from 7/11 and scrub the road broT_T
I'm sorta over Japan. It was cool for a while but the lack of freedom is starting to piss me off more than the novelty can outweigh it
Plus, one of my friends got arrested and it made me realize 2 things:
1) Japan is guilty until proven innocent
2) There's no cash bail
gm🦋🦋 it’s a beautiful day
1 week from today I will be in nyc!!
first time back since hs, super excited to explore and meet some dope people :))
who’s around:0
i think my biggest takeaway from having been in unhealthy relationships is that healthy people will not try and control you as a means to bandaid fear of abandonment
AHEM i will now be adding to the design discourse:
from my experience hireability has almost nothing(<10%) to do how good your portfolio is and everything to do with who you know and how you market yourself/brand in this industry lmfao...
today i found out one of my logos is being featured in the new york times and another one in times square and i didn’t even think abt telling anyone till my friend asked me about it lmfao i need to become better at celebrating my accomplishments
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