If I wrote my very own manifesto of design...
I would highly recommend that you learn to manage time
Learning is a privilege
To savour with a zealous edge
Criticism can be good
It will help, or so it should.
Set yourself some principles, live by them come rain or storm
Sometimes it is better to have an ethos than conform
Inspiration comes from others
Young and old, strangers and brothers
Hearing, touch, sight, smell and taste
Don't let one sense go to waste.
Adolf Loos famously said: 'Ornament is just a crime'
But if it is justified, it can be a grand design
Take the time to read and play
Learn a new thing every day
When you research, if you're in doubt
About a reference, leave it out.
Notebooks are a splendid thing, to make a note of all you see
Rummage through the lost and found, keep things you no longer need
Listen to the client's will
Make your project fit the bill
Read the brief a hundred times
Until you see between the lines.
Good ideas are all around, you could find them anywhere
From the latest Stagmeister, to the oldest Rupert Bear
Don't let provocation phase
Let the simple things amaze
Go to places on your own
Step outside your comfort zone.
Manifesto poem written by Cherry Pie (2011)
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