storytelling
08 March 2010
A good story gets me… gets me excited, teaches me, inspires me, motivates me, makes me a better person.
Life to me is all about stories.
Are we living a good story? One worth telling? One worth remembering?
And what of the people, organizations, and companies that we associate ourselves with? What makes them tick, and what makes me—or you—connect to them?
This is where the subject of this blog comes in:
Designing is storytelling. And it’s a powerful medium for it. We get to use words, images, shapes, colors, textures, music, pacing, and motion to tell our story. We can publish our stories on paper, in books or magazines, on the web, in movies, We get it all. And that is one of the reasons that design is so exciting to me.
When I’m looking for new people to work with, this is criteria #1 that I’m looking for: If I can find the essence of their story—and if that story is one that resonates with me—it’s a story I can bring passion and beauty and clarity to its telling. This is what I want for my life, and my career.
