04/12/2023
Everything & Everybody
Ep. 8: Shawn
“To me, your history dictates a lot of what you are and/or what you don't want to be or what you want to be, right. So, when I'm designing for Good Neighbor, I'm always referencing my childhood, my wife's childhood, our backgrounds, our culture, or the countries we're from, the moments we had in different parts of our life that inform certain decisions. That's where you can find the most honest version of design is usually from those experiences, right. But it can be from a conversation. We could have an amazing conversation today, and I can learn something about you, and that could have formed the next projects. Spaces all usually have a couple of walls, you know. They usually have paint. And some spaces can have the same paint as another spot, right. But it just feels different based on lighting, based on what humans are in the space. It's hard to get a word around this, like, to me, it's like the feeling of design, and feeling of design comes when someone does something authentically. And if they do it authentically, which means that they're not trying to follow a trend, they're not trying to follow what they've seen in a magazine, or what they've seen in someone else's spaces. And you can be influenced by a lot of that, but you're really trying to follow your sense of what that is. But I think that's where you can kind of create the best basis. But also in the history of the space, right? So whatever, you know, whatever building, whatever room. What's the building? What's the space? Where's the history? Who lived here before? Who inhabited this space before? Good or bad? Right? What materials were used here?”
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