Artwork by <n>Tessa Forrest</n> for her project <n>Subliming.jpg</n>.

Trust the overthinker who tells you they love you. They have, most assuredly, thought of every reason not to. — L.K. Pilgrim

<n>The art of creative living</n> by <n>Little Company</n>.

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste.
But there is this gap.



For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work.



Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”

A time-lapse of the slime mold <n>Physarum polycephalum</n> from the <n>Wyss Institute at Harvard University</n>.

People don't need to be fixed. They are not machines. They are not devices we can turn off or on whenever we'd like to. Whenever we feel the need to be entertained. People are so much more, and what they really need is attention, time, and kindness. They need love and not just any kind, they need the kind that doesn't slip away. They need someone to listen to them, to understand them. Someone to hold them when they feel alone. When they feel as if they don't have enough to carry on. So there it is. People are people and they're not broken, they're not empty, and they're definitely not lost. Everyone is where they need to be, and we should never be ashamed of that. Our lives mean so much more and we must find the light within ourselves to set each other free.

\- R. M. Drake

A plate from the book <n>The Splash of a Drop</n> (1895) by <n>A. M. Worthington</n>.

A quote from <n>Zora Neale Hurston</n>'s novel <n>Their Eyes Were Watching God</n>.

"The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." — Vincent Van Gogh

“Young designers, you need battle wounds. You need to fail. You need scars. Be curious and don’t ask for permission.” - Joel Beukelman

Stretch our hearts ample as a yawn, so we might accommodate the double-wide trailer of our neighbors' grief, and, by comparison, feel gratitude for our own. — Sandra Cisneros⁠

# In a world rife with unsolicited images, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read, it must relinquish the attention it has drawn.

Typography with anything to say therefore aspires to a kind of statuesque transparency. Its other traditional goal is durability: not immunity to change, but a clear superiority to fashion. Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

“When you love someone, you can’t just tell them,” she said. “What do you mean?” her friend asked.

“If you say ‘I love you’, how are they supposed to understand? It’s like trying to comprehend the universe.

You have to show them quietly. A coffee. An extra day off. Room to stand under the same umbrella.

Take the universe apart and give them the stars.”