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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.

It is the decision to let yourself be undone by what draws you in.

“What I’m talking about is taking your interests seriously enough to have the courage to stay moving. You can give stuff away. You can abandon things. You can tolerate failure because you know that tomorrow there is more.”

“micro-pessimist, macro-optimist”

“There are choices you make,” she said, “but the contradictions don’t go away. You just live with them.”

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

The fruit that once required long, arduous labor now drops directly into our laps, ripe yet uncannily hollow.