Making sense

Coming, going, leaving traces.

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Success is hard work

If hard work is quantity,

and quantity is variety,

then variety is choice.

If choice is opportunity

and opportunity is chance,

then chance is success.

All in all...

Success is hard work.

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Walking on unsafe grounds.

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Have I been blind Have I been lost Inside myself and My own mind Hypnotized Mesmerized By what my eyes have seen?

Have I been blind Have I been lost Have I been wrong Have I been wise Have I been strong Have I been Hypnotized Mesmerized By what my eyes have found In that great street carnival In that carnival?

(Carnival - Natalie Merchant)

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Parties and events I went to lately here in Zurich. Jungkunst especially was a great art event with an exhibition from young swiss artists, bar and live music. 

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“Good art sends a different message to everyone; good design sends the same message to everyone.”

– John O’Nolan, owner of Lyrical Media

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I love staying up at night to work, while everybody is sleeping. It's the time (out) of the day in which I feel the most productive: the fact that I'm the only person in the house awake gives me extra energy, like a shot of excitement mixed with motivation in my veins. My brain elaborates much faster and produces good creative ideas that would never come out in the sunlight, when I'm so distracted by the beauty and variety of the world, by life itself. Night stands still, apparently dead: it's my secret refuge. Good music in my headphones keeps me company and gives me the rhythm not to get lost between these blurry hours and cups of hot herbal tea keeps me somehow grounded. I like to think that my lonely working nights are extra days and, when it happens that I'm not as tired to drop dead asleep, I  cherish and use well this dark magic time, given out as a present.

Nights are more worth to be awake than mornings.

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I know it'll be sadder If you never hit the road

Wherever you're going I wanna go Wherever you're heading Can you let me know I don't mind catching up I'm on my way Just can't take the thought of you miles away And I know you're going somewhere to make a better life I hope that you find it on the first try And even though it kills me That you have to go I know it'll be sadder If you never hit the road So farewell Somebody is gonna miss you Farewell Somebody is gonna wish that you were here That somebody is me I will write to tell you what's going on But you won't miss nothing but the same old song If you don't mind catching up I'll spend the day telling you stories about a land far away But I know And I know you're going somewhere to make a better life I hope that you find it on the first try And even though it kills me That you have to go I know it'll be sadder If you never hit the road So farewell And I'm gon' try to hold it all in Try to hold back my tears So it don't make you stay here I'mma try to be a big girl now Cause I don't wanna be the reason you don't leave Farewell Somebody is gonna miss you Farewell Somebody is gonna wish that you were here Farewell Somebody is gonna miss you Farewell Somebody is gonna wish that you were here That somebody is me (Farewell - Rihanna)

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Little things and moments from my daily life here in Zurich.

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Go ahead and be the best imperfect person you can be. Sincerely.

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I know what I want: I want everything.

-Dire Straits, lyric from Expresso Love

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Chance encounters and unpredictability elevated to social norms.

“Every space is temporary, nothing is recognisable, everything is discovery, everything changes, nothing can serve as a landmark. Thus psychologically a space is created which is many times larger than the actual space.” 50 years later, Constant, your vision of the future is still so modern and to the point. Still my utopia.

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My train journeys throughout Switzerland. I let myself be home-bound once a month.

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Where's all my stuff gone?

«With digital technology now enabling us to store so much stuff on our computers, I sometimes have to ask myself, Where's all my stuff gone?

My photographs are all stored digitally now. My music is all stored digitally. And they are completely invisible to anyone visiting the house. Even when my Mac is on, there's still no evidence whatsoever that I even like music, let alone own any, And to me that's incredibly worrying. Why? Because we surround ourselves with the things that define us, and while the digital technology lets us store as much stuff as our hard drives allow, it is also erasing our ability as human beings to have the things we love around us - the things that reveal who we are. They simply become a series of invisible, soulless ones and zeros.

Gone are the chance conversations when somebody sees an album on your shelf. But we can't simply let these experiences disappear just because the technology doesn't allow it. We mustn't let the technology shape our memories. We must shape the technology for our ends.»

-Brendan Dowes on Interaction Design, in "Analog in, Digital out" (2007).

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Arts & sports. Research & strangers. Solitude & love.

This series of contrasts distinguishes my stay, so far, here in Zurich. Contrasts - not ups and downs - that blend together in a single feeling: a new crop of life, to be designed in every detail, that makes me grow in many ways. Life is surprising.

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Happy 1st of May everybody! Enjoy spring! I did it and spent the day in the rightest way: out in the nature near home with my sister. She came to visit me and we did a mountain bike day-trip.

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Designers

I, like Tim Brown, believe that designers can be more than “a priesthood of folks in black turtlenecks and designer glasses working on small things.” Design thinking can deliver creative solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems through its human-centered, collaborative, hands-on approach.

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Having balls is the only requested feature to survive outside the nest.

My choice is not meant to be a solution, but an experiment. Not to deny myself anything. To be able, if I'll one day come back, to say: I did it.