For a long time (4-5 years) I’ve struggled with what I want out of my design career. Naturally, I want some respek, but how much of it do I want and how do I get it? I see people dedicating themselves to one style and getting much love. I adore the nopatterns and the toki dokis of the world because they have something I don’t, A style. Frankly, I find working in one style incredibly boring and this was problematic for me for a long time because I saw the formula for success looking something like this

An Awesome Style = Much Respek

This meant because I couldn’t pin down a style, I wouldn’t be able to be successful which meant my career was doomed to mediocrity. I became pretty depressed for a while because of it. That was until I saw a series of interviews at Zoom In with a few of the latest Young Guns winners.

They were all great interviews, but the one that inspired me the most was with Brooklyn based Labour (below).

So now the formula goes something like

Dedication + Passion = Much Respek

Which really was the formula all along, I just had a hard time seeing past all the pretty pictures.