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9 Creative Lessons From Virgil Abloh
The idea of putting things in a box just doesn’t work for me. It worked for a generation that was supposed to be where they are. My story starts from immigrant parents from Ghana in West Africa. On the will of my dad making it to America, I was afforded the range of options opposite from a third world country.
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Tejas Gawande added 15d ago
The importance of an outsider perspective
It's important to recognize we're in the lineage of art movements...I'm sure...you're trying to challenge yourself to invent something new. Try to be so avant-garde, that has zero [connection to the past]. That's impossible...We exist off the backs of many other things in iterations before us. So once you think about us as a collective, you then re
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Tejas Gawande added 15d ago
Build on the work of a mentor (dead or alive). Odd are, these mentors did the same.
- Abloh’s approach was often to make a small “3% “change to the original form. He wasn’t changing something by 3% just to change it by 3%, though. He was adding his personal 3% touch (in a world of generative AI, I really want to emphasize the personal touch aspecthere).
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Tejas Gawande added 15d ago
What is a good way to riff on existing work? Small 3% changes.