A Working Manifesto
If it’s a good idea and it gets you excited, try it, and if it bursts into flames, that’s going to be exciting too. People always ask, ‘What is your greatest failure?’ I always have the same answer—We’re working on it right now, it’s gonna be awesome! Jim Coudal
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[A working manifesto, September 2009]
- I want to explore and create.
- I want to record and be inspired.
- I want to work with my best intentions.
- I want to give my best to become one of the best.
- I want interaction and connection.
- I want to write.
- I want to take pictures and let the camera take over.
- I want history.
- I want to be designing with purpose, no matter what the purpose.
- I want to remember “the cave” from time to time.
- I want to be able to visit “my cave” when I need to.
- I want you to meet me in “my cave” for a coffee and a chat.
- I want to be seen as individual creativity with ideas.
- I want to be a UNICORN.
- I want to investigate and understand the power of three.
- I want to be challenged and dared to create.
- I want to be.
- I want names and numbers.
- I want to be a triangle.
- I want to read and be written about.
- I want to make mistakes.
- I want my name in lights.
- I want to tell stories.
- I want to re’think and re’organise my world.
- I want time to think and I want no time to think.
- I want to stop at exits, even if life is a race.
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“Of course there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’.
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.” Man Ray