closer to the truth

We’re all in this world for so little time. It’s a glimpse of a particle of a millisecond. One day, we think about something we want to do. The next day, the time has gone, the body has decayed, the mind has moved, the world is rearranged, the thing no longer makes sense, but the remnants of it—the desires, the wishes—they linger, like a signature... See more

a principle is not a principle until it costs you something.

As I’m about to leave, my eye falls on an envelope on the doormat I now own. Inside it is a £20 note and a scribbled letter. “Dear Fox & King, I’d like to order a book. I’m not in very good health and books give me a reason to keep going. Please keep the change and give it to someone who needs it. Someone who can’t afford to buy a book for... See more

We were so theoretical about things for so long, and were worrying if anyone would get the various threads we were weaving together.

they are decisions made in response to a tremor beneath the skin of the day, the silent sense that something inside must be honoured. Even if it disrupts everything else.

I will always bring the craft element to a job, whether it’s for big tech or art institutions. And it’s the projects that sit at that junction – where design holds both intellectual clarity and emotional charge – that have shaped me most.

There is something destabilizing about realizing you can have every glamorous line on a résumé and still feel uncertain about who you are. Success is not clarity. Access is not purpose.

and I didn’t get very long into my interview preparations to realize that I wasn’t only writing about a personal hero

Sometimes being too desperate for clarity can ironically push it away.