Caitlin

Also, I'm tired of the bland minimalist aesthetic that's polluted the contemporary Internet. If that's your shtick, I respect it, but it's not my vibe. I'm much more inspired by styles like Rococo, Baroque, and Art Nouveau; artists like Pissarro, Monet, and Cézanne; the interior design of châteaus in France and the exterior design of Disneyland.

“Sometimes fear does not subside and you must do it afraid.”

– Elisabeth Elliot

“You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.”

― Anne Bogart

“Don’t start a company on a level playing field.”

Why does design need to be in the boardroom when it can occasionally run the boardroom? Why aren’t there at least a few more designers running Fortune 500 companies? I don’t have an answer for that, but I do know a couple things: I think of myself maybe as a designer, but I’m not a designer the way most of you are, but I designed our business... See more

I work best from a place of zero ego and zero hope. I call this state being “lower than a worm.” A feeling that nothing will ever come of what I’m working on is crucial. A feeling of my smallness in relation to the world. I gotta be below the dirt. I am nothing and nobody. That frees me up. Who cares what a worm thinks, you know?