#designerlife

Throwback to my magazine design work from 2015–2016 — a time of pure creative exploration. Crafted using Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator, each page was a canvas of ideas and inspiration. Looking back, we didn’t realize we were making memories...

Throughout history, every era has faced the same question: does the tool define the artist?

Michelangelo did not invent marble, nor did he merely carve it. He made choices—about form, proportion, and expression—that the stone itself could not dictate. The work we admire is the product of his decisions, not of the physical labor or the chisel alone.

Rembrandt did not depend on the brush to decide where shadow should fall. The brush was an instrument for his thinking, a conduit for his perception. The genius lies in the judgment, the intentionality, and the responsibility for the effect of each stroke.

Yet Van Gogh’s bold impasto or Warhol’s mechanical silkscreens are not legitimized by the hand alone — they are legitimized by decisions and intentionality. Effort is a byproduct; thought is the core.

Just as artists of every era expanded their toolsets without losing their essence, designers today expand theirs — not to escape labor, but to extend thinking.

The lesson is clear: history proves it. The hand does not make the artist. The mind does.

And that's okay.

Every skilled designer once made something they would never show today.

Progress isn't about being perfect.

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Fashion is literally drifting off. The runways don’t shock anymore. No risks, no real voice, just safe and boring collections built to sell and vanish.

and somewhere along the way, people started thinking fashion was just shein hauls, flexing your latest luxury bag and doing ootd online. It’s not.

fashion is ideas, failure, reinvention and a message behind it. It’s about making or recreating something that didn’t exist yesterday. So I’m building a space for people who want that.

to share the raw stuff, the wins, the screw-ups, the concepts. We need to push each other higher in an industry that’s turned into a competition for attention instead of vision

If you’re a young future designer, a self-taught creator, or someone in fashion who feels lost and unheard in all this noise, this is your sign. Join my project.