MINIMALYSHA

When I was receiving my education in graphic design, my program director taught me that the primary role of a designer was to solve problems. Before then, I hadn't realized I had been a designer for my entire life. How so?... I come from a lineage of frugal people. My grandfather, who was born during an era of poverty and scarceness, was a pioneer of the "we may need this later" mindset. Being the creative kid that I was, I learned early on how to recycle just about anything. Cardboard boxes were trimmed to repurpose as storage bins, unused paper was torn out of half-full notebooks and clipped into new binders, and soda bottles were saved as single-flower vases whose amber glass diluted the light that hit my windowsill.