balance

It's always a challenge: finding the right symmetry of work-life, business and pleasure. This week was an especially interesting adventure in that classic struggle, but the change of pace was certainly welcome. Along with several other local and long-distance colleagues and friends, I attended a design seminar given by UK design gurus Robin Williams and Rob Templar Williams.
What really struck me about this event was that all of the participants-every single one-had a completely different and original solution to the design dilemmas presented in the case study. It was interesting to have a first-hand view of the various styles and tastes of other professionals practicing in the field today: we are all working within the same contexts of site-client-design-plants, but as with anything, our take on the game varies according to our vision, our imagination, our motivation. While I made it my goal to define the heart of the landscape, others took a more pragmatic approach and sought to pull and push design elements to new heights. Still, I believe it's the intensity of the challenge in a class like this that is the gift: where it takes you, what you gain. The design itself is secondary.