Thought of the day - As designers we should be more like children.

To children, the world and everything in it is new, something that gives rise to astonishment. It is not like that for adults and people who doubt and worry, and say things like 'we never did that way, don't do it' or 'this or that never worked out'.  Most of these people accept the world as a matter of course. This is precisely where designers are or have to be notable exceptions. I think that designers never get quite used to the world. To designers, the world continues to seem again and again a bit unreasonable, bewildering, not logical, ... there is always undiscovered land and even if the land is unstable they like to walk the walk or even get an idea of it. Designers and small children thus have an important faculty in common. The only thing we require to be good or better is the faculty of wonder, to dream, to see or want to see new 'dark horses' an abstract idea of uncharted territory.

Being curious is the most important part of being a designer. It might be the most important part of being anything.

Most people overestimate risk, failure and danger and underestimate the value of being curious. And I often heard the proverb "Curiosity killed the cat!" and my completion was and is then: " ... but satisfaction brought it back!"

Or as my wife and Kurt Cobain phrased it: "It is better to burn out than to fade away!"

Today a friend sent me this photo and at first glance I did not saw the camp fire - the first thing I saw was something else. And when you now are looking at this photo - I hope you see more than only a camp fire as well ...