CLINT TABONE

Like most, what first drew me to design was the aesthetics: the colours and the form. What made me stay is the thinking process and design's impact on our lives... I think of design as a vehicle for progression, a window of opportunity to leave things better than we found them. Everything around us has been designed in one way or another. It permeates culture, business, society and can influence the future and even human behaviour: the pinch and zoom gesture is now a universal language, for example. This altered my perception of what design is and what it can stand for... In 2007 I took my first design job after working on a few small projects on the side for friends and bands. My first goal was to become a graphic designer but I was quickly pulled in different directions and grew an appetite for other design disciplines. I dabbled with illustration, got obsessed with typography, learned to code, researched UX and eventually tried my hand at entrepreneurship. I am a self-taught..